Your website does not need JavaScript

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Builds a completely static site from plain HTML and CSS — no JS, no npm, no build step — and demonstrates concrete techniques that actually work: details + summary for accordions, native form validation and input types, input type=range with datalist for labeled sliders, radio-controlled testimonial and image carousels, CSS nesting and the new :has selector to count children. Notes real browser support limits (has is newer, Firefox landed it recently) and accessibility caveats; the static site functions without JavaScript but some UX polish and persisted state still benefit from JS.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:07The problem with JavaScript
3. 3:03Content Targeting
4. 6:54Accordion
5. 8:58Form validation
6. 12:21Nesting
7. 14:13Range sliders
8. 19:45Testimonials
9. 26:03Switches
10. 32:08Image Carousel

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