Hacker News with Generative AI: HTML

Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability (github.com/kepano)
Defuddle extracts the main content from web pages. It cleans up web pages by removing clutter like comments, sidebars, headers, footers, and other non-essential elements, leaving only the primary content.

Web Development, HTML, Markdown, Open Source, Web Scraping

378 points by kepano 1 day ago | 63 comments

HTML5 elements you didn't know you need (dev.to)
As you know, we love unusual tech at Lingo.dev. So when in my last essay, David commented he was surprised to not see "dialog" HTML element, it hit me - wait, but there's so many HTML5 elements that we don't even know about!

Web Development, HTML, Programming, New Releases

6 points by maxpr 1 day ago | 1 comments

Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table (github.com/derekeder)
Display any CSV (comma separated values) file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table.

Data Visualization, Web Development, CSV, HTML, Software

258 points by indigodaddy 2 days ago | 65 comments

Show HN: Robust LLM Extractor for HTML/Markdown in TypeScript (github.com/lightfeed)
Use LLMs to robustly extract structured data from HTML and markdown.

TypeScript, HTML, Data Extraction, Software

14 points by andrew_zhong 9 days ago | 0 comments

CSS Attr() Gets an Upgrade (chrome.com)
With CSS attr() you can use the value of an HTML attribute in your CSS. Until now attr() only worked within the content property of pseudo-elements and could only parse values into a CSS <string>.

CSS, Web Development, HTML, Styling

3 points by todsacerdoti 9 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Basecoat – shadcn/UI components, no React required (ycombinator.com)
Basecoat ports the upcoming shadcn/ui v4 [1] to plain HTML + Tailwind (no React):

UI Components, Front-End Development, Tailwind CSS, HTML

146 points by hunvreus 11 days ago | 77 comments

HTML Time Tags and DRY (HARC Stack) (wordpress.com)
This is the fourth of the HARC Stack essays. Previous <=.

HTML, DRY, Web Development, Programming

5 points by librasteve 12 days ago | 0 comments

Plain Vanilla Web (plainvanillaweb.com)
An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Web Development, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

1519 points by andrewrn 12 days ago | 685 comments

Figma Sites produces no semantic HTML at all. Every single element is a div (hachyderm.io)

Web Development, HTML, Figma

5 points by gslin 15 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: PageQL – Embed SQL directly in HTML (pageql.dev)
PageQL is an experimental template language and micro Python web framework that allows embedding SQL inside HTML directly.

Web Development, Databases, Programming Languages, HTML

16 points by xiphias2 17 days ago | 9 comments

Why can't HTML alone do includes? (frontendmasters.com)
I’m obsessed with this basic web need.

Web Development, HTML, Front-End Development

390 points by susam 20 days ago | 356 comments

The weirdest HTML feature (or bug?): display your head (lapcatsoftware.com)
According to the Mozilla Developer Network web docs, "The head of an HTML document is the part that is not displayed in the web browser when the page is loaded."

HTML, Web Development, Programming, Bugs

15 points by freetonik 25 days ago | 0 comments

CSS Zen Garden (csszengarden.com)
A demonstration of what can be accomplished through CSS-based design. Select any style sheet from the list to load it into this page.

CSS, Web Design, Design, Front-End Development, HTML

329 points by onat1 27 days ago | 166 comments

TikZJax: Embedding LaTeX Drawings in HTML (tikzjax.com)
TikZJax converts script tags (containing TikZ code) into SVGs.

LaTeX, HTML, SVG, Programming, Visualization

137 points by steventhedev 33 days ago | 31 comments

Herb: Powerful and seamless HTML-aware ERB parsing and tooling (herb-tools.dev)

HTML, ERB, Parsing, Tools, Programming

119 points by todsacerdoti 37 days ago | 28 comments

Rewriting my site in vanilla web (leanrada.com)
I rewrote this website in vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. Here’s the story.

Web Development, HTML, CSS, Javascript

15 points by todsacerdoti 50 days ago | 1 comments

The contenteditable "plaintext-only" attribute value combination is now Baseline (web.dev)
Celebration: This web feature is now available in all three major browser engines, and becomes Baseline Newly available as of March 4, 2025.

Web Development, HTML, Browsers, Standards

5 points by feross 64 days ago | 0 comments

Styling an HTML dialog modal to take the full height of the viewport (simonwillison.net)
I've been experimenting with the HTML dialog element recently, for example in my Prompts.js JavaScript library.

Web Development, HTML, CSS

75 points by maxloh 68 days ago | 57 comments

Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file (keepworking.github.io)
Nash is a standalone note as HTML.

Web Development, HTML, Show HN

536 points by yevgenyhong 71 days ago | 143 comments

Cool native HTML elements you should already be using (harrisonbroadbent.com)
I’m constantly surprised by the native HTML spec. New features are regularly added, and I often stumble on existing, handy elements. While often not as versatile as their JS counterparts, using them avoids bloating your app with extra Javascript libraries or CSS hacks.

HTML, Web Development, Programming, Front-End Development

75 points by hbroadbent 74 days ago | 12 comments

Building websites with lots of little HTML pages (jim-nielsen.com)
And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S).

Web Development, HTML, Website Design

193 points by Kerrick 75 days ago | 86 comments

Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its adherence and adoption (github.com/openui)
It's time to modernize HTML once again, and standardize the underlying technology needed by web developers to create the most common patterns of form and website-level UI controls.

Web Development, Open Source, Standards, HTML, User Interface

347 points by ksec 75 days ago | 102 comments

Introducing command And commandfor In HTML (chrome.com)
Chrome 135 introduces new capabilities for providing declarative behaviour with the new command and commandfor attributes, enhancing and replacing the popovertargetaction and popovertarget attributes.

HTML, Web Development, Chrome, New Features

431 points by Kerrick 77 days ago | 249 comments

Invoker Commands (Explainer) (open-ui.org)
Adding commandfor and command attributes to <button> and elements would allow authors to assign behaviour to buttons in a more accessible and declarative way, while reducing bugs and simplifying the amount of JavaScript pages are required to ship for interactivity.

Accessibility, Web Development, HTML, JavaScript

13 points by todsacerdoti 91 days ago | 0 comments

Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024) (kyrylo.org)
Ever wondered why you need the underscore in target="_blank" to open a link in a new tab?

HTML, Web Development, Programming, Technical Details

278 points by OuterVale 91 days ago | 190 comments

Customizable HTML Select (chrome.com)
Styling form controls like the <select> element has been reported as a top developer pain point for years, and we've been working on a solution.

Web Development, HTML, Chrome, User Interface, Accessibility

230 points by dsego 92 days ago | 148 comments

Show HN: I've built personal site in plain HTML/CSS, withouth React/Next.js BS (sergeycooper.com)
Hi! 👋 I'm Sergey

Web Development, Personal Websites, HTML, CSS

23 points by ulshv 101 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure (github.com/desgeeko)
Inspecting the internal structure of a PDF file involves a lot of things (decompression, parsing, xref indexing, etc...) in order to make sense of the raw bytes.

HTML, PDF, Visualization, Programming, Open Source

451 points by desgeeko 102 days ago | 57 comments

I Blog with Raw HTML (devpoga.org)
The blog you're reading is written in raw HTML.

Web Development, Blogging, HTML

114 points by poga 103 days ago | 127 comments

HTML whitespace is broken (2024) (dwac.dev)
Recently, I was working on a project which required a deeper understanding of how whitespace works in HTML.

HTML, Web Development, Technical Issues

131 points by marban 106 days ago | 70 comments