If you have user-generated content in your web application, chances are you have to deal with strings containing emojis. Since emojis are stored as Unicode, chances are that we want to detect these in our code and then render them accordingly. This article discusses how we can check if a...
CSS already has had conditionals in the form of @media queries or @support queries to selectively apply styling to the document. But there is a new proposal called when/else which takes it to a different level. At the time of writing this post, the when proposal for when has been...
Let us suppose we had an HTML element which had an ::after property assigned to it. We are going to be retrieving the content value of ::after or ::before of this element using JavaScript. For the following element: If we needed a way of retrieving content value of ::after in...
We all make mistakes sometimes. Pushing files that contain some secrets or sensitive information to a Git repository is fairly common. And even if we revert the commit, it would still be present in the Git history of the project. In such cases, where we want to permanently remove a...
When a user has to select some text on a website, they have to drag and hold their mouse, or use double-click it. Sometimes, there are some samples that we know that the user is going to copy for sure. A use case for this can be code samples. The...
CSS overflows are an annoyance that keep showing up once in a while and are really hard to debug. Unwanted and unexpected scrollbars can lead to hours of inspecting the DOM to figure out what element is causing the issue and clicking random elements in the Chrome dev tools until...
While automating some parts of my development workflow, I was wondering if there was a way of opening a browser with DevTools open by default. This would save me a few clicks and small tweaks like this are always helpful. And it turns out that it is possible! All I...
Creating a globally unique identifier has always been a necessity in all programming languages and for some reason, JavaScript never had a way of doing it in the default spec. But that is changing now with the crypto API. We can now create a UUID in JavaScript. What is UUID/GUID?...
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