Comments on: Stupid Coding Bloopers

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:29:46 +0000

Jay - if I had a dime for everytime I’ve done the ‘comments versus comment’ thing, I’d be a rich, rich woman! haha

By: Joni

Joni — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:03:34 +0000

I just had a coding blooper this morning! I made an image and saved it as “header_title.jpg” then I called it from the CSS as “header-title.jpg”. I spent some time refreshing the page, uploading the image, deleting the old one and re-uploading the image, but it just wouldn’t budge! I took a break, drank a glass of water, and when I came to check on the codes again I realized I typed a hyphen in the CSS instead of an underscore. Duh! The stupid hyphen got me thinking there was something wrong with my FTP software.

Should have just done a copy-paste. lols

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:26:13 +0000

I do the same thing with the style/class mix up.

I also tend to forget what I named the CSS class. For instance, I’ll name it “comments” and then reference “comment” (no s). That’s usually a solid 20 minutes of my life I can’t get back

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:38:42 +0000

Ha - that’s a good blooper. I can totally see myself doing that!

By: Danalyn

Danalyn — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:23:01 +0000

lol. I feel your pain, sister!

One of the ones I catch myself doing a LOT (probably holdover from doing inline css) is instead of writing class=”blah”, I end up using style=”blah”…then spend 2 hours trying to figure out why my classes aren’t showing.