What s the name for hyphen-separated case

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This is PascalCase  SomeSymbol  This is camelCase  someSymbol  This is snake case  some symbol  So my questions is whether there is a widely accepted name for this  some-symbol  It s commonly used in url s

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This casing can also be called a  quot slug quot   and the process of turning a phrase into it  quot slugify quot   https   hexdocs pm slugify Slug html

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This is the most famous case and It has many names  kebab-case  It s the name most adopted by official software caterpillar-case dash-case hyphen-case or hyphenated-case lisp-case spinal-case css-case slug-case friendly-url-case

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Here is a more recent discombobulation  Documentation everywhere in angular JS and Pluralsight courses and books on angular  all refer to kebab-case as snake-case  not differentiating between the two   Its too bad caterpillar-case did not stick because snake case and caterpillar-case are easily remembered and actually look like what they represent  if you have a good imagination

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Adding the correct link here Kebab Case  which is All lowercase with - separating words

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It s referred to as kebab-case  See lodash docs

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It s also sometimes known as caterpillar-case

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I d simply say that it was hyphenated

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There isn t really a standard name for this case convention  and there is disagreement over what it should be called   That said  as of 2019  there is a strong case to be made that kebab-case is winning   https   trends google com trends explore date all amp q kebab-case spinal-case lisp-case dash-case caterpillar-case  spinal-case is a distant second  and no other terms have any traction at all   Additionally  kebab-case has entered the lexicon of several javascript code libraries  e g     https   lodash com docs  kebabCase https   www npmjs com package kebab-case https   vuejs org v2 guide components-props html Prop-Casing-camelCase-vs-kebab-case   However  there are still other terms that people use  Lisp has used this convention for decades as described in this Wikipedia entry  so some people have described it as lisp-case  Some other forms I ve seen include caterpillar-case  dash-case  and hyphen-case  but none of these is standard   So the answer to your question is  No  there isn t a single widely-accepted name for this case convention analogous to snake case or camelCase  which are widely-accepted

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In Salesforce  It is referred as kebab-case  See below  https   developer salesforce com docs component-library documentation lwc lwc js props names

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As the character  -  is referred to as  hyphen  or  dash   it seems more natural to name this  dash-case   or  hyphen-case   less frequently used    As mentioned in Wikipedia   kebab-case  is also used  Apparently  see answer  this is because the character would look like a skewer    It needs some imagination though  Used in lodash lib for example   Recently   dash-case  was used by   Angular  https   angular io guide glossary case-types  NPM modules   https   www npmjs com package case-dash https   www npmjs com package dasherize

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My ECMAScript proposal for String prototype toKebabCase   String prototype toKebabCase   function        return this valueOf   replace  - g       split          reduce  str  char    gt  char toUpperCase       char            str    char              str   char             replace      g       trim   replace    g   -   toLowerCase

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I ve always known it as kebab-case  On a funny note  I ve heard people call it a SCREAM-KEBAB when all the letters are capitalized  Kebab Case Warning I ve always liked kebab-case as it seems the most readable when you need whitespace  However  some programs interpret the dash as a minus sign  and it can cause problems as what you think is a name turns into a subtraction operation  first-second     first minus second  ten-2    ten minus two   Also  some frameworks parse dashes in kebab cased property  For example  GitHub Pages uses Jekyll  and Jekyll parses any dashes it finds in an md file  For example  a file named 2020-1-2-homepage md on GitHub Pages gets put into a folder structured as  2020 1 2 homepage html when the site is compiled  Snake case vs kebab-case A safer alternative to kebab-case is snake case  or SCREAMING SNAKE CASE  as underscores cause less confusion when compared to a minus sign

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There is no standardized name   Libraries like jquery and lodash refer it as kebab-case  So does Vuejs javascript framework  However  I am not sure whether it s safe to declare that it s referred as kebab-case in javascript world

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Worth to mention from abolish   https   github com tpope vim-abolish blob master doc abolish txt L152  dash-case or kebab-case

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I ve always called it  and heard it be called   dashcase

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