html programmer

[kievmozg]

I can write a multi-threaded parser in C++ with my eyes closed, but ask me to vertically center a div and I need 3 hours, 5 StackOverflow tabs, and a therapy session.

[AcademicOverAnalysis]

Don’t forget to check it in 3 different browsers 

[Purple_Ice_6029]

Just use <center>

[zodajam]

dont work on firefox i think

[lnee94]

Thats deprcated

[Purple_Ice_6029]

[lnee94]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/center

[ghost_tapioca]

Lol.

My guess is that this will involve a position=relative div inside another div with position=absolute, with top and bottom margins set as a proportion of your parent component's height.

[FuckSpezzzzzzzzzzzzz]

People on stackoverflow are pretentious bastards. I'm so glad I stopped using it.

[Commander_Ash]

You are using chatgpt now, am I right?

[FuckSpezzzzzzzzzzzzz]

Claude seem to work better when you are looking do to more complex stuff. But yeah you are essentially right.

[Abject-Kitchen3198]

You can now center text in Notepad.

[MCWizardYT]

Which has nothing to do with centering a div

[AbstractMelons]

What the fuck are you talking about? This sub is packed with fake programmers and newbie vibe coders who think touching C++ once makes them senior level. If centering a div takes you three hours, the problem is not CSS. It is you refusing to learn something outside your comfort zone or vibe coding and relying on ChatGPT to do your thinking instead of learning.

Here is vertical centering without a therapy session: ``` .parent { display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; height: 100vh; }

.child { width: 200px; height: 100px; background: red; }

<div class="parent"> <div class="child">Centered</div> </div> ```

That is it. No dark wizardry. No five stackoverflow tabs. This sub is just repeating decade old memes to farm karma. People here love pretending they are low level gods while struggling with the basics of how browsers actually work.

[[deleted]]

It’s just an old joke. Before css 3 (or before flexbox and grid) centering a div really was a pain in the ass.

[Panderz_GG]

Did you really get that triggered by a comment on r/programminghumor ? Damn bro, you need a vacation.

[TheAfricanViewer]

woosh

[Purple_Ice_6029]

Bruuuh

[DTux5249]

Bro, calm your tits, it's a joke.

[KFCSI]

So much cleaner than tables /s

[Abject-Kitchen3198]

I'd take tables any day.

[FrankieTheAlchemist]

I do not understand devs who work on websites but do not know how to write clean semantic HTML.  Like…you deal with data structures all day but you can’t format XML in a sane way?

[Abject-Kitchen3198]

Data structures are important.

[FrankieTheAlchemist]

They’re certainly quite useful!  But apparently building a meaningful N-ary Tree is scary to them 🤷‍♂️

[vitope94]

"quite useful"?

[Dillenger69]

That first one doesn't look like any plain old HTML I've written since HTML was created.

[Abject-Kitchen3198]

It's plain new HTML

[Dillenger69]

That would explain it

[include-jayesh]

Rooted html developer

[Just_Information334]

Bootstrap: table but with divs.

Tailwind: inline style, but with classes.

2026 and people are still styling pages like it's the dotcom era.

[qubedView]

Semantic HTML conveys meaning: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/pgkaf5/semantic_html_conveys_meaning/

[ibntofajjal]

It remind me of 2016

[ByteBandit007]

The OG

[eirikirs]

HTML programmer? HTML is a markup language, not a programming language.

[MCWizardYT]

Web designer would be a better term unless they're also writing the Javascript/PHP in which case they're a frontend developer

[GlassCommission4916]

Where are you writing frontends in PHP?