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HTML Attributes Every Frontend Developer Should Know Before Writing More JavaScript

Build modern frontends with native HTML attributes and skip the third-party libraries.

Usman Writes

18 min read21 hours ago

Press enter or click to view image in full size HTML already has built-in attributes for popups and dialogs, no JavaScript needed.

A lot of the JavaScript in a typical project exists to do things the browser can already do by itself. A popup menu, an FAQ accordion, a dialog that closes when you click outside it, a keypad that shows only numbers on a phone: each of these used to need a script, and each now has an HTML attribute that does the job.

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This article walks through 21 of those attributes, grouped into four parts. Performance, interaction without JavaScript, forms and mobile keyboards, and links and content.…