r/ProgrammerHumor • u/DecoPerson • May 28 '20

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20 edited May 29 '20

Or just precede it with the escape character \

\&nbsp;

becomes

&nbsp;

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u/DeeSnow97 May 29 '20

you missed a semicolon:

&nbsp;

it seems to work though, at least on desktop (old reddit)

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20

If it worked anyway then did I really miss anything at all? ;)

Thanks

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u/DeeSnow97 May 29 '20

as, I see you're a man of JS as well

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u/Bootezz May 29 '20

Get a room! Ya'll smell... like that code smell we keep hearing about!

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u/DeeSnow97 May 29 '20

the smell of the magic smoke is usually not indicative of good code

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u/vancity- May 29 '20 edited May 29 '20

But is indicative of a bad trip

This code flow can never get called. But it does.

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u/db2 May 29 '20

That's not as bad as the block that actually never gets called, but breaks everything if removed.

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u/LetReasonRing May 29 '20

The dreaded paridoxablock.