Reading Time: 13 minutesThis second installment in the “You don’t know HTML” series is going to be all about the ways that we put collections of things together
Category: HTML5
You Don’t Know HTML Tables
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a deep dive into HTML tables that cover its vocabulary & parts, Table Object Model, Cell headers, and the semantic value of table headers and footers
A Tiny Tool for HTML5’s localStorage and sessionStorage
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was talking to a colleague recently about the release of McSandy, and he mentioned that he had a project coming up that would require manipulation of HTML5’s LocalStorage API. I pointed him to a small gist that I’d put … Continue reading
Contenteditable, CSS, Scoped, and advanced in-browser editing
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve said before and I’ll say again that contenteditable is one of the coolest attributes you can apply to an element. This lil’ gem originates from Microsoft, of all places, and has been there since IE5.5. Well, the other browsers … Continue reading
Clever CSS Tricks: Debugging HTML and CSS with Generated Content and Pseudo Elements
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust this morning I had a small conundrum where I was trying to debug some HTML and CSS that I had written. Specifically, I was trying to figure out where some of my wrappers were, and how some alt and … Continue reading
Using HTML5 LocalStorage to Protect Forms: Part 2, the jQuery plugin
Reading Time: 2 minutesOver four months ago, I posted on how to use the HTML5 localstorage API to protect forms. Quite curiously, it was five days before someone else wrote an article on the concept on Smashing Magazine. (I won’t link to it … Continue reading
HTML5 and Geolocation: Finding Yourself (Part One of Many)
Reading Time: 4 minutesIf there’s something in the HTML5 technology suite whose potential is inversely proportionate to its simplicity, it’s geolocation. The API is very simple and the opportunities haven’t begun to get tapped. My boss over at Tahzoo has a few mind-blowing … Continue reading
HTML5 contenteditable and CSS
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy absolute favorite HTML5 attribute is “contenteditable”. It makes the contents of the element editable. It’s an incredibly simple feature that has tons of potential for your website.In fact, I’ve already seen it paired with localStorage or Web SQL APIs … Continue reading
Using HTML5’s Localstorage API for protecting forms
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of my new favorite features of HTML5 is the wicked awesome storage options. One of the first cool things I thought was to come up with a way to protect a user’s form information. Let’s pretend you been filling … Continue reading
HTML5 meter and range
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve really been interested recently in figuring out how to use HTML5 to create graphs and visualized data. I haven’t quite figured it out, but in the course of things, I stumbled upon the meter element and the range input. … Continue reading