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quuxplusone•361 days ago

The trick is `* {display:block;}`. Having learned that, I wondered whether https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html used the same trick. So I opened up the page and Ctrl+F'ed for "display:". Nothing came up! Back to https://pranavg.me/ and Ctrl+F'ed for "display". Nothing came up!

Apparently, at least on Chrome, Ctrl+F will not find text inside a <style> block, no matter whether it's displayed or not.

Ctrl+F works even to find text inside the displayed <head> and <title> elements, but not inside the displayed <style> element. What could be the browser-writer's rationale for this? And are there any other HTML elements that "suppress searching" like this?

sltkr•361 days ago

Curious.

Interesting enough, document.body.innerText does contain the style sheet contents, so the browser does consider it visible text in some sense.

tomhow•361 days ago

A similar post from 2019, discussed twice on HN:

This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32968597 - Sept 2022 (44 comments)

Show HN: This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20094866 - June 2019 (94 comments)

omoikane•361 days ago

> This page works on all browsers

But on Lynx, it's rendered as only a plain page without all the CSS style bits to make it quine.

_ache_•361 days ago

I suspect Lynx isn't very sophisticated because I just tried with curl and it works like a charm.

defaultcompany•361 days ago

Not from the same guy but here's a quine embedded in the github contribution chart:

https://github.com/mame?tab=overview&from=1970-12-01&to=1970...

ImJasonH•361 days ago

Similar to this, a long time ago I tried to make some CSS that rendered HTML as Markdown: https://gist.github.com/imjasonh/c00cdd7aece6945fb8ea

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m-hodges•361 days ago

I appreciate how many GEB references are hitting HN lately :)

This Page Is a Quine (2021)

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