It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
An irresistible HTML element deep dive from Ire Aderinokun, this time on the <abbr title=""></abbr> element for abbreviations. You can kinda just use it (JUI) and it works fine, but if you're hoping to make a tooltip for them (which works on touchscreens as well), then it's much more complicated.
The end result is leaving the semantic HTML alone and progressively enhancing with ~50 lines of JavaScript that adds interactive wrapper elements and event handlers. … Read article
Speaking of tricky things to get right: tooltips!
Tooltips need to be particularly self-aware, so they don't stick out someplace where they can't be read. Then continue to be smart as the page state changes, like is resized or scrolled. Popper.js looks like it handles all this stuff nicely.
The project page doesn't say this, but creator Federico Zivolo showed me how it's also friendly with React, because you can render the tooltip element itself within the component and it … Read article
I posted about jQuery UI's position feature years ago, but I was just thinking of how useful the collision detection part of that feature is. In a nutshell: you can position an element where you want them to go, but if it calculates that where you're putting it would be offscreen or otherwise hidden, it will adjust the positioning to fix it. … Read article