Fake Trees: Using Indents for Simpler UIs

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  • This trick is particularly useful for rendering things that have somewhat of a hieriarchy, but aren't implicitly hieriarcial. Like a table of contents for a HTML page, targeting the various header (h1-h6) elements. They're not (generally) descendents of each other, and parsing them is simpler to just go as a list of items with a depth.

    I used this for the table of contents on my personal site: https://github.com/paradox460/pdx.su/blob/main/lib/toc.ex

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