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Collision Detection
I posted about jQuery UI's position feature years ago, but I was just thinking of how useful the collision detection part of that feature is. In a nutshell: you can position an element where you want...
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Speaking of tricky things to get right: tooltips! Tooltips need to be particularly self-aware, so they don't stick out someplace where they can't be read. Then continue to be smart as the page state...
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An irresistible HTML element deep dive from Ire Aderinokun, this time on the <abbr title=""> element for abbreviations. You can kinda just use it (JUI) and it works fine, but if you're hoping to...
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Reusable Popovers to Add a Little Pop
A popover is a transient view that shows up on top of a content on the screen when a user clicks on a control button or within a defined area. For example, clicking on an info icon on a specific list...
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Exploring What the Details and Summary Elements Can Do
We’ve mentioned before just how great the <details> and <summary> elements are. They’re great for quickly making accordions that are accessible to touch, mouse, and keyboard input: CodePen...
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I had a very embarrassing CSS moment the other day. I was working on the front-end code of a design that had a narrow sidebar of icons. There isn’t enough room there to show text of what the icons...
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Perfect Tooltips With CSS Clipping and Masking
Clipping and masking have been around for a while now in CSS and even have pretty decent browser support. I recently worked on a project that needed to use a clipping technique for tooltips showing...
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What Would it Take to Prevent CSS Tooltips From Overflowing?
Say you have an elements with CSS tooltips and you’re going to position those tooltips such that it opens up next to the element on hover (or probably better: when clicked/tapped). Next to it where?...
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The Little Triangle in the Tooltip
Tooltips are like homemade food: everyone uses them and everyone has their own recipe to make them. If you don’t remember a particular recipe, you will search for one, follow it, and go on with your...
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