You know how there are JavaScript dialogs for alerting, confirming, and prompting user actions? Say you want to replace JavaScript dialogs with the new HTML dialog element.…
A look from Christian Kozalla on the <dialog> HTML element and using it to create a nice-looking and accessible modal. …
Have you ever clicked on an image on a webpage that opens up a larger version of the image with navigation to view other photos?
Some folks call it a pop-up. Others call it a lightbox. Bootstrap calls it a …
JavaScript has a variety of built-in popup APIs that display special UI for user interaction. Famously:
alert("Hello, World!");The UI for this varies from browser to browser, but generally you’ll see a little window pop up front and center in …
In this week’s roundup: “Add to home screen” has different meanings in Android, Chrome and Edge add some pop to focus rectangles on form inputs, and how third-party sites may be coming to a modal near you.…
Modals always be just appearin’. You might see one once in a while that slides in from one of the edges, or uses some kind of scale/opacity thing to appear from “above” or “below.” But we can get weirder …
Please stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You open a modal, scroll through it, close it, and wind up somewhere else on the page than you were when you opened the modal.
That’s because modals are elements on …
Chris Manning digs into <dialog>:
…A dialog element provides:
- An element that is easy to show and hide, including an
openboolean attribute on the element itself.- Two versions: a standard popover or modal version.
- A ::backdrop pseudo-element for modal
position: relative creates a new context for absolute positioning within an element? Well, position: sticky is a locally scoped version of position: fixed. Let's take a look at how that works using a modal with a sticky close button as an example.
Keith Grant discusses how HTML 5.2 has introduced a peculiar new element: <dialog>. This is an absolutely positioned and horizontally centered modal that appears on top of other content on a page. Keith looks at how to style this …
Accessibility is an aspect of web development that is often overlooked. I would argue that it is as vital as overall performance and code reusability. We justify our endless pursuit of better performance and responsive design by citing the users, …
