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We all know about the a element and we use it in our work everyday. Every HTML page that we create is likely to have at least one a element within it. But have you ever looked at the specification for this vital element?
Here you will find a number of articles I have written the last few years. The subjects vary but are usually around web development, especially HTML5, but other topics are explored too.
We all know about the a element and we use it in our work everyday. Every HTML page that we create is likely to have at least one a element within it. But have you ever looked at the specification for this vital element?
If you’ve been working with responsive web design then you will be familiar with the term ‘breakpoint’ being used to define a media query with a browser width (usually although height can be used too) at which something in the website’s layout or look should be changed. The name itself though has a negative connotation associated with it and we should change that.
Which is the more correct page layout? – was the question posed over on Stack Overflow with regards to the new HTML5 main element. Neither of them as it turned out, but it did make me think that further examples on how to use the main element might be useful.
Today I thought it would be cool and useful to have the time element display the value of its datetime attribute on hover, as sometimes the text that is displayed isn’t fine enough. So I quickly built something that did this in JavaScript only to find out a much easier method later on.
Back in I wrote about the proposed HTML5 main element. This new element was recently added to the HTML5 specification.
Yesterday I released HTML5 Bones, a downloadable basic HTML5 template. Let’s talk about that.