'Typical'

I disagree in the hi-jacking of a question, unless it is to offer some form of alternative, or suggestion for improvement.

Well, the alternative methods you mention are usually not possible to present without causing a topic to go on a tangent. Why? because sometimes a proper (and often best) answer includes a non-Bootstrap/jQuery method, which goes against the group-think of this forum, thereby setting off someone or another.

This hijacking is sometimes an excuse for locking down a conversation that gets uncomfortably beyond this forum's conventional wisdom (or lack thereof). But other times it simply requires everyone (myself included) to take a deep breath and remain reasonable and tolerant--- even if it requires tolerating a bad answer..

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Nancy+OShea  wrote Incidentally, most questions in other forums are answered swiftly & directly within 5-6 replies.  No tangents, no off topic banter, no noise.  How come this forum is so different from the rest?

That's easy, most of the other forums don't have so many different ways of achiving the same end result.

I am sort of in agreement with the going off-topic though, one maybe two posts about alternatives iI agree might be af use to the OP, but everything else I would prefer it if a seperate topic was created.

BTW - I did not post code in the relevant discussion because I only had my phone with me, so I would have been unable to test anything I posted first.