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		no_wizard on April 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript onl... > copy and paste Bravo for admitting it. I have to say I've usually run into trouble working with copy and paste coders though. How do you make sure what you're doing this with is something you understand? I never understood this one.

mellow2020 on April 2, 2020 [–]

I just meant copying and pasting long function and variable names out of my own code elsewhere, should autocomplete somehow not apply.

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