It is used for closing tags and helps you distinguish it from an opening tag. For a lot of tags you need to know where their impact starts and ends, so you need opening and closing tags. If you wanted to bold one word in the middle of a sentence then you would start bolding at the beginning of it and end bolding at the end of the word. To differentiate the two tags, you need the forward slash, like this.
This sentence contains one <b>word</b> that is bolded.
Some tags don't have closing tags, like the br tag. It is now common to put in a slash at the end of those tags like this:
<br/>
The closing tag's opening symbol (the less-than sign) is immediately followed by a slash (sometimes called a "forward slash" to distinguish it from back slash.)Here's the opening for a paragraph tag:And the closingAs you can see, the difference here is a slash. Also not that the slash is used at the ending of "empty elements" in any version of HTML when trying to comply with XML syntax. So, in XHTMLShould instead be writtenThis only effects XML compliant versions of HTML.
forward slash - division operator backward slash - special character (e.g. \n - newline) in C strings
You are probably referring to the front slash. It, along with the less than sign and the greater than sign and the name of the tag, form an end tag, like this: </html> The opening tag does not have the front slash, so it is the character that makes the difference.
All you have to do is create a directory on your server called pictures and then put all you pictures inside and link to them like so /pictures/hello.htm
The frontslash tag. For example, here it is used in the bold tag. <b>Bold text</b>
the / forward slash means or
It is the / mark - it is slanted forward as you read left-to-right. A back slash is the \ mark.
"Le" means "the" in French, and "slash" refers to the forward slash (/) symbol. So "le SLASH vel" would mean "the vel forward slash" in a mixture of French and English.
:/ = sort of in between :| and :(
forward
It faces forward. You can easily remember as the direction is in the name "forward slash"
Forward slash ( /)
/ is a forward slash \ is a backslash
The closing tag's opening symbol (the less-than sign) is immediately followed by a slash (sometimes called a "forward slash" to distinguish it from back slash.)Here's the opening for a paragraph tag:And the closingAs you can see, the difference here is a slash. Also not that the slash is used at the ending of "empty elements" in any version of HTML when trying to comply with XML syntax. So, in XHTMLShould instead be writtenThis only effects XML compliant versions of HTML.
forward slash - division operator backward slash - special character (e.g. \n - newline) in C strings
No.
/ is a forward slash \ is a backslash