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Customizing HTML Input placeholder

I needed to create a placeholder for an HTML form input element that included a red asterisk for the required fields. I knew right away that I could not simply use input::placeholder to create this effect; although it could be used to customize the placeholder text font-size and color. I found this answer and demo […]

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React: The Second Form of setState

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I had a simple enough problem to solve: Create a counter that increments, decrements, and resets in React. Of course with people looking over my shoulder while I am coding I often don’t create things that I am particularly proud of, but generally I get working code. Here is a slightly cleaned up version of

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