Programming error!

[randomling]

Maybe my 100 Things should have been 100 Programming Errors. It would have been much quicker and easier to get to the end of. Oh well!

These are going to be mostly for my reference. But feel free to enjoy my idiocy!


If I forget the quotes in an HTML attribute, it behaves oddly. Especially when I'm using a templating language (like Jinja for example) to render the page. That means my attribute might have spaces in them, and I'll get weird behaviour if there are spaces I haven't accounted for.

Like for example, not rendering the user's whole entry when I re-render a form.

The answer: remember the quotes!


I think I'm going to like having somewhere taggable to keep these.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I cannot tell you how many times I have forgotten quotes. Or put in one half of the quotes and then didn't put in the other half because somehow my attention span failed to hold onto that as a needed thing in between typing the one end and the other.

[randomling]

It's very easy to do!

I thought maybe writing it down would help me remember in future...

[azurelunatic]

My personal nemesis was (in Access database operations) forgetting to convert null values to zero values before doing certain operations on them. I wound up writing "Null to Zero" in fancy font in a fancy border, and stapling it to the wall by my desk, after about the third time that bit me in the ass.

[jhaelan]

It continues in this vein when you branch out into Javascript too'then you need to worry about nesting quotes!

[randomling]

Oh yes! 'Strings with "quotes" in them.'

Or "Strings with \"quotes\" in them."

....etc.

That can get fun. And confusing. :D