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The Search Element

The HTML specification added a new grouping content element: the search element.

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Visually hidden content is a hack that needs to be resolved, not enshrined

The reasons one would visually hide content in the development of a website is generally to include extra content for accessibility.

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Use the dialog element (reasonably)

Today, the HTML specification landed a very important change to the dialog element.

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The details and summary elements, again

I’ve already written about the details and summary elements, but there is more to tell.

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Div Divisiveness

The div is the most versatile and used element in HTML. It represents nothing, while allowing developers to manipulate it into almost anything.

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Semantic <menu> context

Once upon a time, there was an element called . An element which had great aspirations.

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One last time: custom styling radio buttons and checkboxes

What’s necessary to directly restyle radios and checkboxes?

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Output: HTML's native live region element

Recently I wrote a bit on how I'd define a toast component.

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Inclusively Hidden

There are various ways to hide content in web interfaces, but are you aware of the different effects they have on the accessibility of that content?

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Unbuttoning Buttons

Let’s talk about styling the button element.