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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ • Edited

sooo... it basically does something along the lines of

hidden { display: none; }
.only\:block:only-child { display: block }
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That's certainly useful, but not nearly as much magic as it seems :D


One thought I'd like to add is that this CSS-solution has a few interesting implications.

Say, for example, you wanted the last task in the list to have some special styling. Assuming your tasks are rendered as <div class="task> here goes content </div>, you might write some CSS that looks like this:

.task:last-child {
   color: red;
}
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But having that hidden block at the end will mess with this selector. This is yet another reason why :nthlast-child(1 of .task) would be a very helpful addition to CSS.

Another implication is that adding or removing tasks through JavaScript without re-rendering would still eventually show and hide the placeholder, whereas otherwise the JS code would have to take care of adding and removing the element, either by adding it as a template from ruby, or by duplicating the HTML in the JS code.