The <desk> is without doubt one of the grand enemies of responsive design. They don’t wrap (that wouldn’t make a lot sense) to allow them to “blow out” the width of a cellular gadget fairly simply. The overflow property additionally doesn’t work on them. So that you gotta discover a method, and it actually depends upon the info. Generally a row of desk knowledge is fairly independently helpful (think about a row of worker knowledge) so making all of the <tr> and <th>/<td> factor show: block and stacking them works. However that doesn’t work for knowledge that must be cross-referenced. I believe there are 3-4 different patterns that contain shuffling the info round to be extra narrow-screen pleasant. The previous group of jQuery plugins Tablesaw from Filament Group showcase a few of them.
Recently, I discover reasonably than dig round for a display-altering resolution, folks simply wrap the desk in a <div> and let that <div> have overflow. So now you’ve acquired a desk that you would be able to scroll/swipe round with out actually altering how the desk seems to be. I discover myself consulting Under-Engineered Responsive Tables by Adrian Roselli on how greatest to try this often.
Ryan Mulligan has a cool take as nicely in Full-bleed Table Scrolling on Narrow Viewports. The “full bleed” half means utilizing the sting of the browser window. Which you would possibly in any other case not! Sometimes there may be padding on the left/proper (“inline”) edges of content material, which might even be limiting the width of the desk.
The blue line within the screenshot above exhibits the padding on the column of content material, which limits the width of the content material inside there, however the desk is explicitly pulled out from it to the sting. It’s a little bit factor however it’s elegant!
Josh Comeau’s tutorial Animated Pride Flags has numerous enjoyable issues to be taught alongside the way in which of making a controllable model of this:
Discover that staggering is a giant a part of the look right here. That occurs with barely totally different values to animation-delay. Since Josh used React to created the DOM for this, the loop can output these values as inline types and use the variety of iterations that map offers to stagger the worth.
However wait! Possibly CSS ought to be serving to us right here, reasonably than us having to invent our personal solution to stagger issues, proper? That’s what the sibling-count() and sibling-index() proposal is all about. I’m a fan.
Josh’s tutorial principally simply begins right here after which covers increasingly more particulars. I particularly just like the bits of additionally stagging how a lot any given column “billows”, which is one other use-case of staggering a customized property worth. Additionally don’t miss the bits about double-stop coloration gradients and rounding width values to forestall awkward pixel gaps.
How ought to I mark this up? is at all times enjoyable trivia. For me, anyway, I’m a really thrilling individual. Generally HTML has fairly cut-and-dry proper and fallacious methods to do issues, however generally it doesn’t. There are differents methods with styling tradeoffs, accessibility tradeoffs, quantity of markup tradeoffs, and so on.
Lea Verou discovered a superb one in What is the best way to mark up an exclusive button group? In different phrases, a bunch of buttons the place just one might be lively at a time. A multi-toggle? Lea, and loads of different folks, assumed {that a} group of <enter kind="radio"> is the fitting reply (just one radio button might be lively directly), after which fashion them like buttons. I considered <choose> too which may solely have one lively alternative, however no method are you going to have the ability to fashion that as buttons, even with the wildly extra styleable <select-menu>.
Léonie Watson stepped in with recommendation that primarily boiled right down to: in the event that they appear like <button>s, you must use <button>s, so there isn’t “a mismatch of expectations by way of keyboard interplay and shortcuts.” Attention-grabbing!
Lea thinks maybe we need a <button-group>. Once more, I’m a fan. I’d have even stored <hgroup> round, me, for grouping a number of headers.
Have you ever heard this (right) recommendation? Placeholders aren’t labels. Like, don’t do that:
<enter kind="textual content" placeholder="Your Mastodon Profile" />Do that:
<label for="mastodon-profile">Your Mastodon Profile</label>
<enter kind="textual content" id="mastodon-profile" placeholder=" />A placeholder is usually a little bonus trace or one thing, however even then, if that trace is vital it ought to be accessible textual content which placeholder textual content just isn’t.
I’m pondering of that as a result of I noticed Stanko Tadić’s CSS only floating labels. Floating labels is a sample the place textual content that appears like placeholder textual content (textual content throughout the enter) strikes away from the enter however stays seen. This has gotten a bit simpler as of late with the :placeholder-shown pseudo-class.
What I like concerning the floating label sample is that it continues to make use of <label>, so the accessibility stays. It’s additionally simply form of intelligent and enjoyable. What I don’t like about it’s that I don’t suppose it does something actually helpful. I’ve heard proponents of it say that it “saves area” as a result of the label is contained in the enter. However it’s solely contained in the enter till it’s centered, then it strikes out, and it strikes out to someplace the place it wants to stay seen and have area. So……… why don’t you simply put the labels the place they transfer out to within the first place? Kinda looks like motion, for motion’s sake.
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