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JSON Modules in JavaScript

ES Modules were introduced in ES2015. The import and export keywords by default are only applicable to JavaScript code. But there is...

How to check if a string contains emojis in JavaScript?

If you have user-generated content in your web application, chances are you have to deal with strings containing emojis. Since emojis are...

Writing conditionals in CSS: when/else

CSS already has had conditionals in the form of @media queries or @support queries to selectively apply styling to the document. But...

Retrieving content value of ::after or ::before in JavaScript

For the following element:#element::after { content: 'Custom value' }If we needed a way of...

Select all text on click using CSS

When a user has to select some text on a website, they have to drag and hold their mouse, or use double-click...

Detecting element causing CSS overflow

CSS overflows are an annoyance that keep showing up once in a while and are really hard to debug. Unwanted and unexpected...

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How to sort a Set in JavaScript

ES6 introduced the set data structure in JavaScript. But sets are not ordered abstract data structures. So there is no .sort() property...

Debugging CSS scroll using one simple style

I have been doing a lot of complicated front-end work off lately and that always brings me back to the class conundrum...

CSS :has a parent selector now

CSS now includes a :has selector that allows us to apply styles on the basis of what is happening inside an element....

How to fix “invalid active developer path” after MacOS update

If you are here, then you are getting an "invalid active developer path" error on running commands in the terminal after a...

Getting the value of an input element as a number without parseInt

Every once in a while, you come across something and you think, how did I not know this earlier? valueAsNumber is that thing...

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