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CSS: Using Invalid and Valid Pseudo-Class

The title is ambiguous actually, why do we want to use an invalid pseudo-class? 🤔 And is it not valid pseudo-class in CSS plenty? Why? Because. Hi. In form context, we can use :invalid and :valid pseudo-class to notify user if their input is either invalid or valid. The CSS styling for the pseudo-class can be applied to: input tag (with exception) ✅ ❌ Input type exception: button , submit , reset , image , hidden , file , range , color , checkbox , radio . It is because there is no validation is done to those particular types. textarea tag ✅ select tag ✅ Let's try it combined with massive JavaScript and plenty of HTML elements. 🤣 No, it's quite straightforward actually. We can see the example below. Demonstration Please enable JavaScript Please choose Option One Option two Option three Option four ...

Chess: Drunk Bard Zukertort Opening: Tennison Gambit

I played offence (white piece) — in 3 minutes Super Blitz game as Anonymous on Lichess employing drunken Tennison Gambit . The tipsy placements after the Tennison Gambit bit were indeed wild. Expectedly, I did plenty of blunders as the offence side. But! Checkmated my opponent at 33rd banter. 💥 🤣 Hats off to the defence side — for being generous obviously — as I wore no hat to begin with. The defence side was quite baffled I assume, by the way the online indicator stayed green for more than 3 seconds after the checkmate. I did not laugh, composed(ly holding it together) — I did smile a bit after the online indicator turned gray. The speculative opening combined with the speculative tipsiness were indeed both confusing. Hence... Be my guest. You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board. That game was clearly chaotic. Thus, it is...

Suck

Suck The original meaning is "to draw in air or liquid through the mouth". The word suck stems from Old English (Anglo-Saxon) sūcan . It was Germanic to its very bones — more in common with Old High German and Old Norse. Anglo-Saxon sentence examples: Sē cyning wæs swīðe gōd . It means the king is very good . Sē cild sūcþ meolc of þǣre mōdor brēoste . It means the child sucks milk from the mother's breast . Indeed with the accent for the vowels, confused Greek letter, and the mashed together alphabet 🤷 Romans talked like that (alphabet discipline), non-Romans talked with diverged flavours and lisps. Thus, the party. 🎊🎉🪅👯💃🐐🐔🐄🥳 The extravagant (confusing-cough) writing was developed later on — Latin literacy first brought via the Christian Church. Then, the party. Most notably, St Augustine of Canterbury , arrived from Rome. "St" is Santo (masculine) or Saint in English. It does not mean that person suddenly ha...

Proceed and Precede

Did you ever mistype or miswrite either procede or precede? See, I did it. Proceed is the correct spelling. Who does that proud ale-driven inconsistency? Guess. Notice the -ceed and -cede tail fragments? Or, to be formal, verb roots? They are Latin in origin. Not just the fragments, the entire word, both. Prior Latin (Void existed.) Latin Procedere (go forward). Praecedere (go before). Verb root: cedere. Norman French Proceder. Preceder. Verb root: ceder. Middle English Procede. Precede. Verb root: cede. Current English Proceed . Precede. Verb root: oblivion. Was that printer misaligned cartridge related issue — like that early American typewritter visual quirk — then everybody places punctuation and whatnots within... barn? ⬅️ This deserves one episode, or even an entire season of a thriller series. ❓ Typewritter A device that lets you type letters by pressing keys to writ them directly onto paper. ...

How to Control the Appearance of Blogger Widget

Blogger has a widget or gadget feature. Widget or gadget is a dynamic element of our blog which we can add, remove, and modify — through either of these menus: Layout Theme ➡️ Customize (open drop down) ➡️ Edit HTML This post is specifically for modifying the appearance of an entire gadget through Edit HTML menu, after we create it from the Layout menu. Blogger implements XHTML 1.0 , which is an HTML based on XML . It has overall HTML flavour, but with certain XML strictness. For example, we create a new HTML/JavaScript gadget from Layout menu: We can define the Title and Content after that. The Title and Content both can be empty, we may tinker it later on the XHTML text editor. But, to indicate which new gadget we just added, we might put either one as a reference. For example, we define the Title as Test Gadget . Then to further modify that, we navigate to the XHTML text editor through Theme ➡️ Customize button (open drop down) ➡️ Edit...

How Do I Spell 5785?

Let's begin. 5785 is spelled as: F... I... V... E... space... S... E... V... E... N... space... E... I... G... H... T... space.... F... I... V... E... That is the most accurate spelling of 5785 in English. Right then. We shall march onward to the next section 🎺 🏰 Noble Digit The Noble Digit is an application I built that translates any real number into properly formatted words , ready to be spoken, written, sung, or shouted from castle balconies. It accommodates: Positive numbers ✅ Negative numbers ✅ Decimal numbers ✅ And formats them in British , US Informal , US Formal (fractional), and... 🍻 Drunk Bard – because of course it does. Plus... 🔢 Number to Word Whether you're dealing with: 19872900 ➡️ nineteen million, eight hundred and seventy-two thousand, nine hundred Or something absurd like -0.003 in US Formal ➡️ negative zero and three thousandths It handles it with grammatical grace, optional hyphens, and the proper and ...

The Girl Who Replied to the Prince of Nigeria

Once there was a girl named Elsie, who received a curious letter — not by post, but through the shimmering scroll of her inbox . It was from a prince , exiled and alone, trapped with seventeen million dollars and no one to trust. Moved by noble compassion (and mild curiosity), Elsie replied with her full name, bank details, and a JPEG of her cat 🐈 He seemed so polite , she later said. He even used full sentences — none of that lol nonsense. But alas! The moment she clicked Send , her screen flickered. Her icons rearranged themselves. Her fonts turned to Comic Sans. And deep within the motherboard, a voice whispered, Your inheritance is processing... — like waiting for a completion with a progress bar stuck at 98% endlessly. Oh, let's make it as a theatrical description — tis like waiting at the edge of salvation, whilst the bar of progress halts; ninety-eight percent, ever taunting, never moving, a silent sentinel of false hope 🎭 She was never seen onl...
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