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@WELZ several minor errors in that demo

I guess not "errors" but not needed/not good dev practices

@WELZ What do you mean "from anywhere along the center line"?

in any case, you can't style the actual resizer (you used to be able to in webkit but they seem to have removed support for it in recent years), so you have to resort to a JS work around if you need that ability (as far as I'm understanding what you're trying to do)

@ZachSaucier I want to not be limited to hovering my mouse over the bottom part of the slider, I want to be able to hover anywhere along the border and just show the resize arrows instead.

@WELZ Zach is right. You can't do what you are trying to do in pure CSS. I like the fact that they tried to do it in pure CSS as an excercise, but things like this usually are done better in JS.

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ToT @Pie our hero!

Hi. What is something when viewed from the front and back would remain the same...

@deostroll is this a riddle, or are you genuinely looking for a word?

@deostroll transparent?

a sphere

"Ambigram" is what came to my mind at first, but that doesn't read the same if you see it on a mirror...

@deostroll there is a Dutch language journalist who always lamented the fact that a palindrome, well, isn't one.

so he came up with the alternative 'symmy', multiple 'symmys' to remedy that :D

so i can see the problem. Unforrunately my version has no easy out

@joojaa let's just call them 'kablooie words':D

@deostroll symmetrical?