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HTML

              
                .center
	.loading
		p loading...
	
	.content
		h1 ASCII animator

		label.ascii
			| Type something here:&nbsp;
			input[type="text" value="  .oO0Oo."]

		.output
			p

		label.speed
			| Speed:&nbsp;
			input[type="range" min="4" max="120" value="20"]

              
            
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CSS

              
                html, body
	height: 100%

body
	display: flex
	align-items: center
	justify-content: center
	margin: 0
	font-family: monospace

.center
	display: inline-block
	margin-bottom: 40px
	text-align: center

.content
	display: none

.wf-active
	.loading
		display: none

	.content
		display: block

label
	display: block
	
.ascii
	margin-bottom: 40px

.speed
	margin-top: 40px

.output
	position: relative
	display: block
	width: 11em
	height: 11em
	margin: auto
	border: 1em solid white
	font-family: VT323, monospace
	text-align: left
	overflow: hidden
	box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px black

	p
		position: absolute
		left: 0
		bottom: -1em
		visibility: hidden
		width: 100%
		line-height: 1
		margin: 0
		word-wrap: break-word
		white-space: pre-wrap

              
            
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JS

              
                const main = () => {
  // Adds ZERO-WIDTH-SPACEs between the characters of a word for nicer wrapping,
  // and replaces spaces with non-breaking ones.
  const spaceify =
    word => ['', ...word.replace(/ /g, '\u00A0').split(''), ''].join('\u200B');

  // DOM.
  const ascii = document.querySelector('.ascii input');
  const p = document.querySelector('.output p');
  const speed = document.querySelector('.speed input');

  // Derive the number of characters that fit on a single line.
  const charsPerLine = (() => {
    const prevHTML = p.innerHTML;
    p.textContent = '.';
    const lineHeight = p.offsetHeight;
    let charsPerLine = 0;
    for (; p.offsetHeight === lineHeight; ++charsPerLine) p.textContent += '.';
    p.innerHTML = prevHTML;
    return charsPerLine;
  })();
  p.style.minHeight = 'calc(100% + 1em)';
  p.style.visibility = 'visible';

  // State.
  let word = spaceify(ascii.value);
  let period = 40; // ~24fps.
  let timeout = period;
  let tPrev = 0;
  let i = 0;
  // Main animation loop.
  (function print (t = Date.now()) {
    const gap = tPrev && t - tPrev - timeout;

    // Clear some of the old characters if we fall well below `period`.
    if (gap > period / 2) {
      const unspaced = p.textContent.replace(/\u200B/g, '');
      const charsToKeep = 11 * charsPerLine + unspaced.length % charsPerLine;
      p.textContent = spaceify(unspaced.slice(-charsToKeep));
    }
    p.textContent += word;

    // Update state.
    tPrev = t;
    timeout = Math.max(period - gap, 0);
    setTimeout(print, timeout);
  })();

  ascii.addEventListener('keyup', e => {
    word = spaceify(ascii.value), p.textContent = '';
  });
  speed.addEventListener('input', e => {
    period = 1000 / speed.value, tPrev = 0;
  });
};

WebFont.load({
  google: {families: ['VT323']},
  active: main,
});

              
            
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