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Why so serious?

EDIT: I knew that would get a laugh. It was a good joke. I chortled. I don't get offended by every off-hand phrase in life when no one's hurt in the process. If you're offended by the joke then you are the one with issues, not the joke.

If you're a home builder, I would expect you to already have what you need to build one, and not running elsewhere to buy parts that everyone uses on their houses, too. Unless you're just a tract house builder cranking 'em out without a care for what they look like.

Try telling that to most noobish programmers, and all redditors, and see where it gets you.

I can't agree more with all your comments here but I've been downvoted into oblivion for saying the same things.

I use a pad of paper. I have lots of pads of paper. None of them did I have to purchase. They were given to me at work or elsewhere for free. So refills are free, too. Without cranking.

And I get to use my favorite desk. I can clutter it up if I want.

"I can't think of one" as a username screams "asshole who thinks he knows it all"? Wow. You should hear my thoughts now.

One quick example.

Certain elements are, or can be made to be, "inline" which gets them treated the same as characters on a line. Thus those elements, such as an image, will have white space between them as a word does in a paragraph. If you butt those element's tags right next to each other, with no white space between them, then there will be no white space on the displayed page.

So don't tell the truth? It's interesting that people on Hacker News are intimidated so easily when confronted with such things.

Quit reading stupid articles written by out-of-work people with nothing better to do.

Complaints such as his, and most of the comments so far below, show a total lack of knowledge of the science and underpinnings behind the whole thing and the only supported proof throughout is silly, invalid examples of markup no one would ever use.

More laughable are the attempts at making HTML look like a programming language, which it is not, and I'd bet that comes as news to many.

Invalid markup means you are relying on the browser to read your intent or your mind. They are very good at doing that but no self-respecting web developer would ever do such an insane thing as your example.

EDIT: Interesting about the downvotes. It shows a total lack of understanding the fundamentals of how browsers work but, alas, downvote away.

Because whitespace matters in HTML.

You are confused. HTML is used to describe the structure of the document, not its visuals. CSS has nothing to do with the HTML content so your complaint about the property/value thing is misplaced and inlining CSS, as you show, is frowned upon.

Then you show the tag/tag thing as if that is a HTML pattern but what you show as your example is just gobbldey-gook nonsense and you claim it's typical.

I just don't know what to say to you.

Not when you know what you're doing and don't use auto code generators.