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HTML HTML Forms Choosing Options Select Menus

Narendra Joshi
Narendra Joshi
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Posted by Narendra Joshi
Narendra Joshi
9,905 Points

Why did you an "_" when assigning value in option tag?

Was that just to make the code look good?

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

You'll notice that as a convention, underscores are used both here and other parts of the program for names that are composed of more than one word. As you guessed, this is primarily for readability and has no special significance to the program. This is sometimes referred to as "snake case".

Another naming convention often used to improve readability is to capitalize the beginning of each joined word, known as "camel case" (for example: "thisIsCamelCase").

Anuj Bhusari
Anuj Bhusari
12,240 Points
Anuj Bhusari
Anuj Bhusari
12,240 Points

Since you cannot use spaces in the names, for improving readability it is a common practice to use underscores instead of spaces.