Using & Styling The Details Element
February 27, 2025
You can find the element all over the web these days. We were excited about it when it first dropped and toyed with using it as a menu back in 2019 (but probably don’t) among many other experiments. John Rhea made an entire game that combines with the Popover API!Now that we’re 5+ years into , we know more about it than ever before. I thought I’d round that information up so it’s in one place I can reference in the future without having to search the site — and other sites — to find it.
HTML is full of useful elements, some of longstanding, that are much less used than they ought to be. Here Geoff Graham goes into detail about
, their use and styling.
