\), it will escape the character after it. However, there are cases where you might not want this behavior (e.g. when you want to store a Windows path as a string). For these cases, you can use a template literal and the
String.raw() tag function:
const path = `C:\web\index.html`; // 'C:web.html' const unescapedPath = String.raw`C:\web\index.html`; // 'C:\web\index.html'
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Escapes a string for use in HTML.
Unescapes escaped HTML characters.
Escapes a string to use in a regular expression.