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You know how there are JavaScript dialogs for alerting, confirming, and prompting user actions? Say you want to replace JavaScript dialogs with the new HTML dialog element.…

A look from Christian Kozalla on the <dialog> HTML element and using it to create a nice-looking and accessible modal. …

Have you ever clicked on an image on a webpage that opens up a larger version of the image with navigation to view other photos?

Some folks call it a pop-up. Others call it a lightbox. Bootstrap calls it a …

JavaScript has a variety of built-in popup APIs that display special UI for user interaction. Famously:

alert("Hello, World!");

The UI for this varies from browser to browser, but generally you’ll see a little window pop up front and center in …

In this week’s roundup: “Add to home screen” has different meanings in Android, Chrome and Edge add some pop to focus rectangles on form inputs, and how third-party sites may be coming to a modal near you.…

Modals always be just appearin’. You might see one once in a while that slides in from one of the edges, or uses some kind of scale/opacity thing to appear from “above” or “below.” But we can get weirder …

Please stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You open a modal, scroll through it, close it, and wind up somewhere else on the page than you were when you opened the modal.

That’s because modals are elements on …

Chris Manning digs into <dialog>:

A dialog element provides:

• An element that is easy to show and hide, including an open boolean attribute on the element itself.
• Two versions: a standard popover or modal version.
• A ::backdrop pseudo-element for modal