Case Insensitive CSS Attribute Selector / / No Comments CSS selectors never cease to amaze me in how powerful they can be in matching complex patterns. Most of that flexibility is in parent/child/sibling relationships, very seldomly in value matching. Consider my surprise when I learned that CSS allows matching attribute values regardless off case! Adding a {space}i to the attribute selector brackets will make the attribute value search case insensitive: /* case sensitive, only matches "example" */ [class=example] { background: pink; } /* case insensitive, matches "example", "eXampLe", etc. */ [class=example i] { background: lightblue; } The use cases for this i flag are likely very limited, especially if this flag is knew knowledge for... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Attribute, Case, Insensitive, Selector
HTML popover Attribute / / No Comments Modals have been an important part of websites for two decades. Stacking contents and using fetch to accomplish tasks are a great way to improve UX on both desktop and mobile. Unfortunately most developers don’t know that the HTML and JavaScript specs have implemented a native modal system via the popover attribute — let’s check it out! The HTML Creating a native HTML modal consists of using the popovertarget attribute as the trigger and the popover attribute, paired with an id, to identify the content element: <!-- "popovertarget" attribute will map to "id" of popover contents --> <button popovertarget="popover-contents">Open popover</button> <div... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Attribute, HTML, popover