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Reusable Popovers to Add a Little Pop

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A popover is a transient view that shows up on top of a content on the screen when a user clicks on a control button or within a defined area. For example, clicking on an info icon on a specific list item to get the item details. Typically, a popover includes an arrow pointing to the location from which it emerged.

Popovers are great for situations when we want to show a temporary context to get user’s attention when interacting … Read article “Reusable Popovers to Add a Little Pop”

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Revisiting the abbr element

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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 “Revisiting the abbr element”

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Popper.js

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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 “Popper.js”

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Collision Detection

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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 “Collision Detection”