Hyphenate compound modifiers built-in and left-hand side - #45418
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Description
Hyphenates "built-in", "left-hand side" and "right-hand side", "so-called" and "compile-time" in the 26 places where they modify a following noun.
Motivation
Used before a noun these are compound modifiers and take a hyphen. The repository already writes "built-in" about 528 times, so the unhyphenated ones are outliers.
Thirteen are the same sentence on the ARIA attribute pages — "as these have built in semantics and do not require ARIA attributes" — on
aria-checked,aria-multiline, and theElement.aria*reflection properties. The rest are "built in objects and APIs", "all of the built in form validation", "including built in elements", "a customized built in element example", "Built in compression means…", "Built in HTML elements can have different states", "the built in Hunspell spell checker", and "tend to have built in mitigations".Also "the left hand side expression" and "on the left hand side" on the invalid assignment error page, whose own slug is already
invalid_assignment_left-hand_side; "The right hand side shows the received chunks"; "the so called CSS History Leak"; and "TypeScript adds compile time type checking".Verb uses are left alone, for example "the application that we built in this tutorial" and "the main platforms even have screen readers built in to enable visually impaired users".
Text inside code is untouched, so Safari's
TypeError: Right hand side of instanceof is not an objectkeeps its exact wording.