A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
<ruby> element
Looking for a way to implement footnotes in HTML, Thomas Steiner experimented with using the <ruby> element. The MDN docs describe the ruby element as follows. “The HTML <ruby> element represents small annotations that are rendered above, below, or next to base text, usually used for showing the pronunciation of East Asian characters. It can …
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This message by Elaina Natario writing over at Thoughtbot cannot be repeated enough: While both the alt attribute and the figcaption element provide a way to describe images, the way we write for them is different. alt descriptions should be functional; figcaption descriptions should be editorial or illustrative. Examples of both functional and editorial descriptions …
Recently I saw this tweet by Marco Denic fly by: CSS tip: Did you know that you can use your own image, or even emoji as a cursor? pic.twitter.com/P25wSJ0ui6 — Marko ⚡ Denic (@denicmarko) January 6, 2021 To use an emoji as the cursor you can’t simply type in the emoji though. /* ❌ This …
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multiple attribute
If you set the multiple attribute on an input[type=”email”] you can have it accept several email addresses. Easy.
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Now this is a fun pen! How many HTML tags can you remember? Stranded on 58 here, which is just over 50%. Perhaps if I think about it a bit more I can add a few extra to the list, but don’t think I’d get that much further though … Now don’t you go peeking …
If you’re dealing with images it’s quite common to show a small placeholder while the image is loading. You could go with grey placeholders, but a low-res blurred version of the original is preferred. That way you can, in the example use case of a website, use the Blur Up technique once the image is …
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role="doc-subtitle"
Over at CSS-Tricks, Chris takes a look at how to mark up a “Double Heading”, a common pattern where you have a big heading with a little one preceding/succeeding it (as pictured above). After going over a few options, the answer comes from a tweet by Steve Faulkner: use role="doc-subtitle" for the secondary heading. As …
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Checkboxland is a JavaScript library for rendering anything as HTML checkboxes. You can use it to display animations, text, and arbitrary data. It also supports plugins, so you can build more powerful APIs on top of it. Heh. Can’t quite think of a reason when exactly to use this, but it’s fun nonetheless 😅 Checkboxland …
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<input type=”color”> with <datalist>
Christian Heilman: The input type colour supports the list attribute, which allows you to define a preset list of options. The colours need to be defined as hexadecimal colours. They can be defined as values or text inside the option tags, but the values take precedence. Pictured at the top of this post is how …
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