CSS + JS Hacks We’re Fine With

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about CSS + JS Hacks that they're ok with using.

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Show Notes

• 00:53 What are the things in web dev, that feel wrong or hacky when starting out, but are actually totally accepted to do?
• 02:09 Sponsor: Sentry
• 03:12 Sponsor: Freshbooks
• 05:32 Negative margins in CSS
• 07:53 Not Passing a radix to parseInt()
• 10:17 -50% translation 50% direction
• 11:27 Overwriting Arguments in a function
• 13:20 non-standard-element
• 17:26 Button must have a type
• 18:56 Triangles out of borders
• 20:40 Overflow:hidden to clear a float
• 20:55 Always pass noopener to links!
• 22:16 Inline styles

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