What is kebab-case used for?
kebab-case joins lowercase words with hyphens (main-content-wrapper) and is the standard for HTML class and ID names, CSS properties, file names and URLs. It is not usable for variable names in most programming languages because the hyphen is parsed as a minus operator.
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