That week in 2019 when my forum theme broke for 3 days straight

I was running a vintage gaming forum back then (maybe 200 members, nothing huge) and I spent a whole weekend trying to fix a CSS conflict that made the entire site render as a solid white page. Turned out it was one missing semicolon in a custom theme file, something I'd overlooked after like 8 hours of debugging. Has anyone else had a layout bug that took way too long to find because of one dumb typo?

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wright.cole4mo ago

Did you end up using a CSS validator or just brute force scanning the file?

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foster.wade4mo ago

Used a validator once and it flagged a missing semicolon from 2017 I still laugh about.

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taylor9294mo ago

Oh definitely, I feel that. I've been burned by missing semicolons more times than I want to admit, it's always something tiny like that.

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