Search
Getting Creative With HTML Dialog
3.6.2025
So, how can you take dialogue box design beyond the generic look of frameworks and templates? How can you style them to reflect a brand’s visual identity and help to tell its stories? Here’s how I do it in CSS using ::backdrop, backdrop-filter, and animations.
Getting Creative With HTML Dialog...
Invoker Commands: Additional Ways to Work With Dialog, Popover… and More?
20.11.2024
Web browsers are experimenting with two HTML attributes — technically, they’re called “invoker commands” — that are designed to invoke popovers, dialogs, and further down the line, all kinds of actions without writing JavaScript. Although, if you do reach for JavaScript, the new attributes come...
The Different (and Modern) Ways to Toggle Content
8.11.2024
Let’s spend some time looking at disclosures, the Dialog API, the Popover API, and more. We’ll look at the right time to use each one depending on your needs. Modal or non-modal? JavaScript or pure HTML/CSS? Not sure? Don’t worry, we’ll go into all that.
The Different (and Modern) Ways...
Tooltip Best Practices
29.10.2024
What are tooltips, exactly? There's two kinds and the one you use has implications on the user experience, as Zell illustrates in this explainer on best practices.
Tooltip Best Practices originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
Clarifying the Relationship Between Popovers and Dialogs
23.10.2024
The difference between Popovers (i.e., the popover attribute) and Dialogs (i.e., both the <dialog element and the dialog accessible role) is incredibly confusing — so much that many articles (like this, this, and this) have tried to …
Clarifying the Relationship Between Popovers...
Dialog Components: Go Native HTML or Roll Your Own?
23.5.2022
As the author of a library called AgnosticUI, I’m always on the lookout for new components. And recently, I decided to dig in and start work on a new dialog (aka modal) component. That’s something many devs like to …
Dialog Components: Go Native HTML or Roll Your Own? originally published...
Replace JavaScript Dialogs With the New HTML Dialog Element
8.2.2022
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.
Let me explain.
I recently worked on a project with a lot of …
Replace JavaScript Dialogs With the New HTML Dialog...
How to Implement and Style the Dialog Element
27.10.2021
A look from Christian Kozalla on the <dialog> HTML element and using it to create a nice-looking and accessible modal.
CodePen Embed Fallback
I’m attracted to the <dialog> element as it’s one of those “you get a lot for free” …
The post How...
How to Implement and Style the Dialog Element
6.10.2021
Go in-depth on the native dialog HTML element with this tutorial and learn how to implement a user-friendly, accessible dialog on your website.
The post How to Implement and Style the Dialog Element appeared first on Codrops
Choice Words about the Upcoming Deprecation of JavaScript Dialogs
9.8.2021
It might be the very first thing a lot of people learn in JavaScript:
alert("Hello, World");
One day at CodePen, we woke up to a ton of customer support tickets about their Pens being broken, which ultimately boiled down to …
The post Choice Words about the Upcoming Deprecation of JavaScript...
Some Hands-On with the HTML Dialog Element
7.10.2019
This is me looking at the HTML <dialog> element for the first time. I've been aware of it for a while, but haven't taken it for a spin yet. It has some pretty cool and compelling features. I can't decide for you if you should use it in production on your sites, but I'd think it's starting...