leading spaces & the web

2019-09-22

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~3 min read

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442 words

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

2019-09-21

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~1 min read

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155 words

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

2019-09-20

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~2 min read

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235 words

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…

web accessibility: form basics: labels

2019-09-19

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~3 min read

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463 words

For accessibility purposes all form inputs should be labelled. How do we apply a label though? There are multiple ways to add a label, but…

score dial

2019-09-18

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~3 min read

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483 words

Given a score within a range, how could we visualize that on a dial? That was what I got to work on recently and it turned out to be a ton…

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