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First, "case" refers to whether a letter or letters of the alphabet are in CAPS or are in lowercase. (Or, caps and small letters.)

"Case sensitive" is a phrase meaning that computers, especially in website-creation, will read letters differently depending on whether the letters are in CAPS or in lowercase. Web URLs (the address) and passwords are most often case-sensitive. So, if you see in part of a URL this:

categoryABC-ID1356

that lettering is different from

categoryabc-id1356

The first one would also be different from:

categoryAbc-Id1356 (or any other combination of upper and lowercase lettering)

Web Hosting sites may require case-sensitive rules, while other websites do not use case-sensitive (instead, they are case-insensitive). Passwords may be either case-sensitive or case-insensitive, but most are case-sensitive. This is why you might sometimes see the message to check your Cap Lock status when a (otherwise correct) password fails.

So, there is a difference, for example, between each of these:

  1. case sensitive
  2. CASE SENSITIVE
  3. CaSe sEnSiTiVe (or other combination of lowercase letters and capital letters).
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This term typically applies to passwords. So if your password is WiKkI, then it needs to be entered exactly like it was when it was set up. Any letters that are capitalized must be entered as capitals otherwise it won't work.

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