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Add missing period to the abbreviation etc. - #45511

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Description

Adds the missing period to seven occurrences of etc in prose, and a missing serial comma before two of them.

Affects the .htaccess configuration guide, the Express deployment guide, the Firefox 46 release notes, BaseAudioContext, attribute selectors, attr(), and the indexed collections guide. The last one also drops a trailing ellipsis, so "myArray[1], etc… The index of" becomes "myArray[1], etc. The index of".

Instances inside code blocks are left alone.

Motivation

The writing style guide asks for the period explicitly:

Latin abbreviations: You can use common Latin abbreviations (etc., i.e., e.g.) in parenthetical expressions and notes. Use periods in these abbreviations, followed by a comma or other appropriate punctuation.

The rest of the repository already follows it — etc. appears about 1080 times, so these seven are outliers.

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husamemadH requested review from a team as code owners September 4, 2026 18:40
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husamemadH requested review from Josh-Cena, dipikabh, estelle and sideshowbarker and removed request for a team September 4, 2026 18:40
@github-actions github-actions Bot added Content:CSS Cascading Style Sheets docs Content:WebAPI Web API docs Content:JS JavaScript docs Content:Learn Learning area docs (outside of one of the Learn:* subtags) Content:Firefox Content in the Mozilla/Firefox subtree size/s [PR only] 6-50 LoC changed labels Sep 4, 2026
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Flaws (3)

Note! 6 documents with no flaws that don't need to be listed. 🎉

Found an unexpected or unresolvable flaw? Please report it here.

URL: /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Values/attr
Title: attr() CSS function
Flaw count: 3

  • macros:
    • Macro csssyntax produces link /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Values/declaration-value which doesn't resolve
    • Macro csssyntax produces link /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Values/ident-token which doesn't resolve
    • Macro csssyntax produces link /en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Values/ident-token which doesn't resolve
External URLs (1)

URL: /en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/46
Title: Firefox 46 release notes for developers

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Thanks

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Josh-Cena merged commit e2c34c7 into mdn:main Sep 4, 2026
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Content:CSS Cascading Style Sheets docs Content:Firefox Content in the Mozilla/Firefox subtree Content:JS JavaScript docs Content:Learn Learning area docs (outside of one of the Learn:* subtags) Content:WebAPI Web API docs size/s [PR only] 6-50 LoC changed

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