Basic Dialog Usage and Gotchas To Watch For – Frontend Masters Boost
February 6, 2024
The element in HTML is tremendous. We’ve got support across the board now, so using it is a smart plan. Just with basic usage, you get a centered modal dialog experience that comes up when you call it, a dimmed background, focus trapped within it, closes with the ESC key, and focus returning where it came from. You can style it all entirely predictably in CSS. Those things range from a little bit of a pain to downright hard to pull off if left to our own implementations. Now we get them all for free as they say.
Source: Basic Dialog Usage and Gotchas To Watch For – Frontend Masters Boost
Dialog boxes (outside the most basic) have long been a lot of work for web developers. No longer-with the dialog element, as Chris Coyier details here.
