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by whoisthemachine 4104 days ago
What?! Why. why. why would anyone ever need this, and why would it ever be made available? I'm just completely dumbfounded by this.
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Apparently a lot of the older webpages do stuff like this. You could have a table being outputted by nesting for loops for the `<table>`, `<tr>`, and `<td>` opening/closing tags. It's a small step from here to constructing tags bit by bit.

I don't see people doing it in modern websites (doesn't mean there aren't), but we sort of have to support all of the Internet, so...