Perfection via Successive Approximation
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These posts are either basics that most self-taught folks I’ve helped out don’t seem to know (though I have seen some very creative work-arounds for some of them!) or things that are actually pretty easy but many beginners/self-taught folks might not realize are even possible.
The basic related html is: Giving you this: This text is hidden This will also work with this html: Giving you this: Spoiler This text is hidden How I did it: Step 1: Make the details tag flow inline with the content, and give it a background color. I figured out this worked with inline-block… Read More
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All modern desktop browsers now have integrated browser tools, however, there are subtle (and sometimes less subtle) differences between each. I find that Firefox has the best overall, though I do switch to Chrome for some specific debugging tasks. I personally only use Edge or Safari when trying to isolate a bug that only shows… Read More
Let’s say we want a reall big, chunky main title for our forum skin. Here’s, I think, the simplest way to do it, I see this a lot: .maintitle { height: 160px; line-height: 160px; text-align: center; font-size: 40px; } If we add that to the stylesheet and check it on desktop, it looks great. That… Read More
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Okay so I recently figured this out, fixed it on my scripts, forgot about it, was just reminded, realized I ought to document/share. So this is getting posted here and a couple other places. When you do a fetch() or $.get() the browser only fetches that specific page, and doesn’t bring along any external/linked files…. Read More
Firstly, you’ll need the svg itself. Three things to note: 1: Like empty images, empty svgs still take up some minimum space by default. If you’re borrowing a filter from an svg image that you’re actually using, that’s not an issue. If you’re just using the svg for filters, the svg itself needs to be… Read More
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Ever been on a forum site with a really nice dark theme, but then you go to make a post, and are presented with a large blindingly white text area to type in? Maybe with tiny, hard to read font? Of course you have. But this is a 100% fixable problem.