story - TIL CSS has a counter-increment property and it really gave off some powerful "HTML is a programming language" - devRant

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Clear0Ff

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wait, doesn't css already have that ?
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nitwhiz

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@Clear0Ff what
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Clear0Ff

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OMG, @nitwhiz well i just realised...

At first i understood, "Until CSS has counter-increment ...."

And i was like, wait it does have!

Now im just dumb :)))
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theabbie

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It's always better to avoid JS if something is possible with CSS
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12bitfloat

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Still doesn't make it turing complete though
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hashedram

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@12bitfloat well yes, but it still vibes.
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Fast-Nop

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What I like is the CSS/HTML checkbox hack for having a menu minimised or expanded - works without JS because while HTLM is mostly stateless, checkboxes do have state.
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Lensflare

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@Fast-Nop web dev in a nutshell
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lorentz

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@Fast-Nop Thanks for the tip, I'll now abuse this to create pages that feel modern but actually do everything (including telemetry) with CSS only.

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