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JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a data-interchange format.
The JSON.isRawJSON() static method tests whether a value is an object returned by JSON.rawJSON().
The JSON.parse() static method parses a JSON string, constructing the JavaScript value or object described by the string.
The JSON.rawJSON() static method creates a "raw JSON" object containing a piece of JSON text.
The JSON.stringify() static method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string, optionally replacing values if a replacer function is specified or optionally including only the specified properties if a replacer array is specified.
JSON is a convenient and widely used format for serializing objects, arrays, numbers, strings, booleans, and null.
json_decode() — Decodes a JSON string.
json_encode() — Returns the JSON representation of a value.
json_validate() — Checks if a string contains valid JSON.
JIT (Just-In-Time Compilation) is a compilation process in which code is translated from an intermediate representation or a higher-level language (e.g., JavaScript or Java bytecode) into machine code at runtime, rather than prior to execution.
The CSS justify-content property defines how the browser distributes space between and around content items along the main axis of a flex container and the inline axis of grid and multicol containers.
The CSS justify-items property defines the default justify-self for all items of the box, giving them all a default way of justifying each box along the appropriate axis.
The CSS justify-self property sets the way a box is justified inside its alignment container along the appropriate axis.
K
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Kebab case is a way of writing phrases without spaces, where spaces are replaced with hyphens -, and the words are typically all lower case.
A key is a piece of information used by a cipher for encryption and/or decryption.
A keyword is a word or phrase that describes content.
kses_init(): Sets up most of the KSES filters for input form content.
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A logical timestamp that respects causal precedence without fully identifying which events are concurrent.
The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) performance metric provides the render time of the largest image or text block visible within the viewport, recorded from when the page first begins to load.
A replicated value that resolves conflicts by choosing the write ranked latest under a deterministic ordering.
Latency is the network time it takes for a requested resource to reach its destination.
A layout mode, sometimes called layout, is a CSS algorithm that determines the position and size of element boxes based on the way they interact with their sibling and ancestor boxes.
The layout viewport is the viewport into which the browser draws a web page.
Lazy loading is a strategy that delays the loading of some assets (e.g., images) until they are needed by the user based on the user's activity and navigation pattern; typically, these assets are only loaded when they are scrolled into view.
In typography, leading is an amount of space included above and below text to provide spacing between lines.
The left CSS property participates in specifying the horizontal position of a positioned element.
The letter-spacing CSS property sets the spacing between text characters.
An LSM compaction policy that organizes files into levels to reduce overlapping data and read work.
LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation.
License activation associates a purchased software entitlement with a particular installation or environment.
License deactivation removes an installation's association with a software entitlement according to the licensing system's rules.
A license entitlement is the set of rights or services a customer's purchased plan grants in the seller's licensing system.
License renewal extends a time-limited software entitlement according to the purchased plan.
The lighting-color CSS property defines the color of the light source for the feDiffuseLighting and feSpecularLighting SVG lighting filter primitives within an SVG filter.
The line-break CSS property sets how to break lines of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean (CJK) text when working with punctuation and symbols.
The line-clamp CSS property allows limiting of the contents of a block to the specified number of lines.
The line-height CSS property sets the height of a line box in horizontal writing modes.
A consistency guarantee that makes operations appear atomic and preserves their real-time order.
links_add_base_url(): Adds a base URL to relative links in passed content.
links_add_target(): Adds a target attribute to all links in passed content.
The list-style CSS shorthand property allows you to set all the list style properties at once.
The list-style-image CSS property sets an image to be used as the list item marker.
The list-style-position CSS property sets the position of the ::marker relative to a list item.
The list-style-type CSS property sets the marker (such as a disc, character, or custom counter style) of a list item element.
Literals represent values in JavaScript.
The queueing relation L = lambda × W connecting average work in a system, arrival rate, and time spent there.
Deliberately rejecting selected work during overload to preserve useful processing capacity.
load_child_theme_textdomain(): Loads the child theme's translated strings.
load_default_textdomain(): Loads default translated strings based on locale.
load_muplugin_textdomain(): Loads the translated strings for a plugin residing in the mu-plugins directory.