/* Code Comments */20 posts tagged with "html"
html-events
2022-11-28
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https://javascript.info/bubbling-and-capturing#capturing Masters did a demo on how bubbling/capturing of events matters with portals. Three…
setting the time
2022-11-28
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The tag is an interesting HTML tag I’d not come across before. It’s primary use seems to be to facilitate interaction between the browser…
better form submissions: submit with post
2022-11-28
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The standard behavior of a tag on submit is to send a request with all of the form’s values passed as query parameters. There are a number…
uncommon html tags: insertion, deletion, citation
2022-11-28
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Yesterday, I wrote about the use of the tag to effect a strike through in a Markdown document rendered to HTML. Well, that took me down a…
getting strikethroughs when writing in markdown
2022-11-28
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This evening I was going on my merry way when I realized that I wanted to add some emphasis to my writing by adding a strikethrough mark…
arrows! left and right
2022-11-28
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Two fun little websites that are great resources for unicode left and right arrows: right-arrow.net left-arrow.net Here are the tables (with…
html: ordered lists properties
2022-11-28
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The HTML tag has several useful properties to be aware of: - which provides an easier styling of included tags, though this can also be…
simple searching with html, css, and js
2022-11-28
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As one of the fortunate few (relatively) who learned to make websites after the ascendency of React, I find that I often struggle when…
shared events between window, document, and htmlelements
2022-11-28
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When it comes to coding, there’s always something new to learn. One of the areas I find I have a hard time with are Take, for example, this…
better form submissions with event.preventdefault and htmlformelement.reset
2022-11-28
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Update: I recently revisited this use of and in the context of utilizing the appropriate event. Read about it in Form Validation…
back to the basics: html head tag
2022-11-28
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When you manage a web-app fully with React, it’s easy to forget that there’s HTML involved. You add the tag to the body, give it a as a…
email templates in anchor tag href
2022-11-28
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I was looking to plan an event recently at Beermiscuous, a beer cafe in Chicago that I really like. Their event inquiry is a simple process…
html symbols & ascii characters
2022-11-28
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Recently, I went on a search to find a new arrow to use on my website (I settled on which produces this: ➥). In my search, I found this…
creating a downloadable file
2022-11-28
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I thought this was pretty cool. Imagine you want to create a file programmatically and allow a user to download it. For the sake of this…
supporting submit on enter
2022-11-28
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When asking users for their input, it’s often a pleasant user experience to allow them to submit the form by pressing “Enter”. In fact, that…
auto-complete in html forms
2022-11-28
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Starting around 2015, browsers started treating the attribute on fields differently. Instead of honoring what had become a tradition of…
leading spaces & the web
2022-11-28
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One of the more frustrating little quirks about HTML is its insistence on collapsing white space. This is actually often more useful than it…
html id fields
2022-11-28
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Ids are everywhere. But what are the rules for them? Turns out, the rules in HTML5 are pretty permissive: unique, at least one character…
html: name vs. id
2022-11-28
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In looking into labels for web forms recently, I stumbled on a question I really didn’t know the answer to: What’s the difference between a…
lessons in queryselector and the importance of understanding mechanism
2022-11-28
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NB: The below illustrations are inspired / adapted from MDN’s great page on QuerySelector. I did not come up with these examples (though I…