The new stylable select element
Episode 11 of the Off The Main Thread podcast, hosted by Jake Archibald, Surma, titled "The new stylable select element" was published on October 8, 2024 and runs 45 minutes.
October 8, 2024 ·45m · Off The Main Thread
Episode Description
We're finally getting a element we can fully control with CSS! A bunch of other stuff needed to be added to the platform to make it work, and the good news is we can use it a lot of them independently of .
Resources:
- Chrome's article on the new
, and how you can provide feedback. - The CSS appearance property. Nope, I still don't know what it does.
- The Popover API.
- "On popover accessibility: what the browser does and doesn't do" by Hidde de Vries and Scott O'Hara.
- The CSS anchor positioning API.
- The previous spatnav spec effort.
- The
hiddenattributeuntil-foundvalue (sorry, I saidif-foundin the episode). - The CSS element function.
- Timing of cloning for the
- Animating to height auto.
- The new entry-exit animation feautres.
- The proposed
commandandcommandforattributes which give buttons declaritive activation behavior.
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