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HTML is Not a Programming Language?
HTML is not a programming language.
I’ve heard that sentence so many times and it’s tiring. Normally, it is followed by something like, It doesn’t have logic,
or, It is not Turing complete,
.so… obviously it is not a programming …
Zero-Width Space
The name zero-width space is antithetical, but it’s not without uses. In text, maybe you’d use it around slashes because you want to be sure the words are treated individually but not have any physical space around the slash:…
HTML Boilerplates
Manuel Matuzović goes line-by-line through a boilerplate HTML document. I like it. It’s a good reference and has a lot of the same type of stuff I tend to put in the main HTML template. It makes me think about …
The `ping` attribute on anchor links
I didn’t know this was a thing until Stefan Judis’s post:
<a href="https://www.stefanjudis.com/popular-posts/"
ping="https://www.stefanjudis.com/tracking/"Read popular posts</a
You give an anchor link a URL via a ping
attribute, and the browser will hit that URL with a web request …
Definition Tag
It’s <dfn
. Jen Kramer and Erika Lee are doing a #30DaysofHTML email list thing-y on Substack, which is an easy subscribe. It’s only been a few days and all of them have little gems, even for someone like me …
Smarter Ways to Generate a Deep Nested HTML Structure
Styling Complex Labels
Danielle Romo covers the HTML pattern you need when you have a wordy <label>
with fancy styling for an <input type="radio">
.
The trick? The ol’ <span class="hidden-visually">
that contains the label that you want to be read, and a …
Editing HTML Like A Boss In VS Code
Here’s a seven minute video from Caleb Porzio that focuses on some of Emmet‘s HTML editing features. You might think of Emmet as that thing that expands abbreviations like table.stats>tr*3>td*3
into glorious, expanded, and perfect HTML. But Emmet has …
A Complete Guide to Data Attributes
The Deal with the Section Element
Two articles published the exact same day:
- Bruce Lawson on Smashing Magazine: Why You Should Choose HTML5
<article></article>
Over<section></section>
- Adam Laki on Pine: The Difference Between
<section></section>
and<div></div>
Element
They are comparing slightly different things, but they both …
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