Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
Why do certain random strings produce colors when entered as background colors in HTML? For example, `bgcolor="chucknorris"` produces a : ``` <body bgcolor="chucknorris"> test </body> ``` Conversely...
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- 6 Jun at 07:37
How do I check if an element is hidden in jQuery?
How do I toggle the visibility of an element using `.hide()`, `.show()`, or `.toggle()`? How do I test if an element is `visible` or `hidden`?
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- 5 Jul at 07:29
What does "use strict" do in JavaScript, and what is the reasoning behind it?
Recently, I ran some of my JavaScript code through Crockford's [JSLint](http://www.jslint.com/), and it gave the following error: > Problem at line 1 character 1: Missing "use strict" statement. Doing...
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- 5 Jul at 13:59
What does if __name__ == "__main__": do?
What does this do, and why should one include the `if` statement? ``` if __name__ == "__main__": print("Hello, World!") ``` --- [Why is Python running my module when I import it, and how do I ...
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- 14 Nov at 02:6
How do I remove local (untracked) files from the current Git working tree?
How do I delete untracked local files from the current working tree?
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- 3 Aug at 04:58
How to modify existing, unpushed commit messages?
I wrote the wrong thing in a commit message. How can I change the message? The commit has not been pushed yet.
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- 2 May at 10:16
var functionName = function() {} vs function functionName() {}
I've recently started maintaining someone else's JavaScript code. I'm fixing bugs, adding features and also trying to tidy up the code and make it more consistent. The previous developer used two ways...
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- 14 Feb at 07:44
Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?
If I run the following program, which parses two date strings referencing times 1 second apart and compares them: ``` public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException { SimpleDateForma...
How to check whether a string contains a substring in JavaScript?
Usually I would expect a `String.contains()` method, but there doesn't seem to be one. What is a reasonable way to check for this?
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- 3 Apr at 13:17