Relatively New Things You Should Know about HTML Heading Into ...

Not all of this is like *absolutely brand spanking new* just-dropped-in-2024 stuff. ... It’s possible you haven’t kept up too much with HTML developments as it tends to, rightfully, move a lot slower than CSS or JavaScript. ## A group of details elements can behave like an accordion, among other improvements, but still have accessibility limitations. We’ve had cross-browser … Me, I mostly think the only-one-open-at-a-time thing is an anti-pattern (as do others), mostly because it’s weird to close something a user may have intentionally opened via side effect. But the web is a big place and certain specific designs I can see needing it to be effective so I don’t hate that it exists. At least I think using the term “accordion” is now appropriate in this context, but that there are still potential accessibility issues. Like imagine using this for a FAQ section where each question would normally be a header like … , which is a “button”, so that’s not great. Here’s an example of the accordion pattern being used with a group of horizontally laid out details elements. If more could be opened, it could cause horizontal scroll which I sure we can all imagine also sucks. Note that those