tag open at the end and the browser just kept going, has anyone else been tripped up by something that dumb in their first week of learning?
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TIL my "hello world" ran twice because I forgot to close a tag in HTML
I spent 3 hours last Tuesday trying to figure out why my text showed up twice on the page, turns out I left an extra
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riverf3423d ago
Did you know a missing closing tag can make the whole page go nuts? I used to think HTML was super forgiving and the browser would just figure it out. Then I spent a whole night on a list where every item after the third one got stuck inside the second one, all because I forgot one little </li>. Now I always check the end of my file first when something looks wrong. That one dumb mistake taught me more than any tutorial did.
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