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Visual Studio Code: blazingly fast text expansion with Emmet

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/15

I come from a background of Delphi, Visual Studio and Notepad++ editors that historically have expanded their functionality over decades of releases.

When switching much of my development to Visual Studio Code, which out of the box aims at basic support (which has grown remarkably over the years so it’s way beyond basic now), I decided to review my editing behaviours see if plugins (in vscode speak “extensions marketplace“) would assist me with that.

One of my behaviours I wanted to get rid of is heavily use of keyboard macros, so when doing more web-stuff, I bumped into Emmet (that in the past was called Zen Code).

I bumped into Emmet because I wanted to refactor quite a few bits of html, and embed many sections of text in tags. Normally I would have written a macro for that, but now I did a quick [Wayback/Archive.is] vscode html embed text in element – Google Search and bumped into [Wayback/Archive.is] html – How to do tag wrapping in VS code? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive.is] Alex!)

Since Visual Studio Code has built-in support for Emmet, here are some links so I can quickly find them back:

Hopefully I will now also less rely on user-defined snippets, though they are still available: [Wayback/Archive.is] Snippets in Visual Studio Code

Using Emmet eventually might help me in my blog-writing too, which still is heavily WordPress.com, known for its limited editor, based.

Apparently, my Google Search fu still is good enough to find these kinds of gems (:

–jeroen

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I love the way it shows “Duden Offline”

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/04

This does not happen often, and I found the way that [WayBack] Duden Offline is indicated hilarious!

It’s just a “basic” HTML page showing the meaning of “Wartung” (German word for Maintenance).

Duden is het German equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Not all of the huge site was gone. Part of the “Rechtschreibung” was still there, including the Wikipedia entry (:

I wonder what that one shows during maintenance (:

Links:

–jeroen

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Naughty naughty no alt: CSS style to clearly show which images lack an alt-text

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/05

The CSS from [WayBack/Archive.is] Naughty naughty no alt that shows the below red moving rendering of images that do not have an alt-text is simple:

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html – CSS Display an Image Resized and Cropped – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/25

[WayBack] html – CSS Display an Image Resized and Cropped – Stack Overflow (thanks [WayBack] roborourke!); see full answer link for runnable snippet and HTML (the WordPress editor keeps fucking up preformatted code blocks with html or XML in it).

You could use a combination of both methods eg.

    .crop {
        width: 200px;
        height: 150px;
        overflow: hidden;
    }

    .crop img {
        width: 400px;
        height: 300px;
        margin: -75px 0 0 -100px;
    }

You embed the img in a div with class .crop, or in-line the styles in the img and div tags.

–jeroen

 

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HTML table border styles

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/20

I always get confused when I see this kind of HTML:

<td style="border: 1px black; border-style: none solid solid;">

This raises questions like:

  • When less than 4 borders are mentioned, which borders are solid, and which borders are none?
  • What is the order of 0…4 borders?

Luckily these links helped me:

  1. [WayBack] w3schools: CSS border-style property
  2. [WayBack] w3schools: CSS Borders
  3. [WayBack] border-style – CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDNThe border-style CSS property is a shorthand property that sets the line style for all four sides of an element’s border.

The first two made me find the last one, which is best as it has a CSS demo button (that also works on the WayBack link), a list of examples, and even better, answers the above questions with the “border-style” list below.

I rephrased their list into a table emphasising the clock-wise order:

The number of values determine the sides affected; thinking clock-wise is easiest to get it:

# values affected sides example top right bottom left
1 all: top, right, bottom, left solid solid solid solid solid
2 top & bottom, right & left none solid none solid none solid
3 top, right & left, bttom dotted none solid dotted none solid none
4 top, right, bottom, left double dotted solid none double dotted solid none

Their list:

The border-style property may be specified using one, two, three, or four values.

  • When one value is specified, it applies the same style to all four sides.
  • When two values are specified, the first style applies to the top and bottom, the second to the left and right.
  • When three values are specified, the first style applies to the top, the second to the left and right, the third to the bottom.
  • When four values are specified, the styles apply to the top, right, bottom, and left in that order (clockwise).

Each value is a keyword chosen from the list below.

then it continues with a table showing the outcome of the various line style values you can put in:

<line-style>
Describes the style of the border. It can have the following values:

none
Like the hidden keyword, displays no border. Unless a background-image is set, the calculated value of border-top-width will be 0, even if the specified value is something else. In the case of table cell and border collapsing, the none value has the lowest priority: if any other conflicting border is set, it will be displayed.
hidden
Like the none keyword, displays no border. Unless a background-image is set, the calculated value of border-top-width will be 0, even if the specified value is something else. In the case of table cell and border collapsing, the hidden value has the highestpriority: if any other conflicting border is set, it won’t be displayed.
dotted
Displays a series of rounded dots. The spacing of the dots is not defined by the specification and is implementation-specific. The radius of the dots is half the calculated border-top-width.
dashed
Displays a series of short square-ended dashes or line segments. The exact size and length of the segments are not defined by the specification and are implementation-specific.
solid
Displays a single, straight, solid line.
double
Displays two straight lines that add up to the pixel size defined by border-width or border-top-width.
groove
Displays a border with a carved appearance. It is the opposite of ridge.
ridge
Displays a border with an extruded appearance. It is the opposite of groove.
inset
Displays a border that makes the element appear embedded. It is the opposite of outset. When applied to a table cell with border-collapse set to collapsed, this value behaves like groove.
outset
Displays a border that makes the element appear embossed. It is the opposite of inset. When applied to a table cell with border-collapse set to collapsed, this value behaves like ridge.

–jeroen

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