Scripting News: Thursday, December 21, 2023
Thursday, December 21, 2023 This is the time of year every day feels like Saturday. # ChatGPT is my CSS advisor # People who don't program must not have any idea how much of a boon ChatGPT is to us programmers. # I am doing CSS coding far in advance of my previous capability. When I know something is possible, but I haven't the slightest idea how to specify it, I just ask, in my own words. # For example, a very common thing to want to do is to put a : after the text in the first column every row of a table. # So I asked ChatGPT how to do it, in English, as I did above. This is what it came up with: # tr td:first-child::after {content: ":";} # When you see it like that you can almost figure out what's going on if you squint and close one eye. # And it works. I literally shrieked when it did. # Now I am the boss of CSS.. # Nice. # If FeedLand were from Disney # A beautif...