Hacker News with Generative AI: HTML

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 14 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 18 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 20 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 23 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 25 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 25 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 27 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 40 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 41 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 42 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 51 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 52 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 52 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 55 days ago | 70 comments

Chrome 133 Supports DOM State-Preserving Move with moveBefore() (chromestatus.com)

Web Development, Chrome, JavaScript, Browser Features, HTML

226 points by AshleysBrain 57 days ago | 84 comments

Reduce your LLM agent costs by 90% with structure-preserving HTML compression (github.com/emmetify)
Cut your LLM processing costs by up to 90% by transforming verbose HTML into efficient Emmet notation, without losing structural integrity.

Cost Optimization, HTML, Web Development, Data Compression

13 points by maledorak 65 days ago | 10 comments

Every HTML Element (iamwillwang.com)
There are over a hundred HTML elements. This page uses all of them.

HTML, Web Development, Programming

501 points by wxw 67 days ago | 132 comments

Designing for the web ought to mean making HTML and CSS (2019) (signalvnoise.com)
During the dotcom boom back in the late 90s, I did a bunch of Photoshop-cut jobs. You know, where a designer throws a PSD file over the wall to an HTML monkey to slice and dice. It was miserable.

Web Development, Design, HTML, CSS

8 points by acmerfight 72 days ago | 4 comments

Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS (vijayp.dev)
This week, I decided to rewrite my website using plain HTML and CSS.

Web Development, HTML, CSS

198 points by arnath 78 days ago | 204 comments

What is a DOM node? A peek under the hood (gregros.dev)
What makes an object a DOM node? Is it the prototype or something else?

Web Development, JavaScript, Programming, HTML, DOM

24 points by thunderbong 80 days ago | 9 comments

Relatively New Things You Should Know about HTML Heading into 2025 (frontendmasters.com)
Not all of this is like absolutely brand spanking new just-dropped-in-2024 stuff. Some of it is, but generally it’s relatively new stuff that’s all pretty great. I’m pointing things out that I think are really worth knowing about. It’s possible you haven’t kept up too much with HTML developments as it tends to, rightfully, move a lot slower than CSS or JavaScript.

HTML, Web Development, Programming, Frontend Development, New Technologies

5 points by birdculture 81 days ago | 1 comments

A couple CSS tricks for HTML Dialog elements (cassidoo.co)
I recently was messing around with the HTML <dialog> element. It’s really handy for native dialogs without a ton of JavaScript.

CSS, HTML, Web Development

163 points by surprisetalk 82 days ago | 45 comments

A Racket alternative to HTML Tidy (joeldueck.com)
If you use Racket to generate web pages, you should use this package to make your HTML both readable and correct. Why go to the trouble of designing clean, semantic markup if you’re just going to slap it all on one line that scrolls horizontally forever?

Web Development, Programming Languages, HTML, Racket

35 points by velcrovan 83 days ago | 9 comments

HTML Is a Programming Language. Fight Me (wired.com)
HTML is the most significant computing language, programming or otherwise, ever developed.

Programming Languages, Web Development, HTML

8 points by TheIronYuppie 86 days ago | 29 comments

HTML Is a Programming Language. Fight Me (wired.com)
HTML is deceptive. It looks easy. And easy HTML is easy. With a few tags you can write your name on a webpage, make it bigger or smaller, add “is awesome” in bold or italics, and even—for those of us who came of age in better times—make it blink or scroll across the screen.

HTML, Programming Languages, Web Development

5 points by tysone 86 days ago | 2 comments

The Future of Htmx (htmx.org)
htmx began life as intercooler.js, a library built around jQuery that added behavior based on HTML attributes.

Web Development, JavaScript, Libraries, HTML

788 points by polyrand 87 days ago | 430 comments

HTML_slice: Enable Ruby classes the ability to generate reusable pieces of HTML (github.com/henrique-ft)
Enable Ruby classes the ability to generate reusable pieces of html

Ruby, HTML, Libraries, Programming, Web Development

37 points by thunderbong 91 days ago | 18 comments

RIP W3C's HTML working group 1994-2024 (w3.org)
The mission of the HTML Working Group is to give input to and bring the WHATWG HTML and DOM Review Drafts to W3C Recommendations.

Web Development, HTML, Standards, W3C

47 points by tannhaeuser 98 days ago | 21 comments

My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red (htmhell.dev)
Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving whipping it out the good ol' CSS color property. But this is HTMHell, dammit. None of that wishy-washy CSS nonsense here. No siree. We use HTML as the good lord intended and shalln't stray into the sins of cascading sheets lest we end up some non-HTML variant of hell where they define page structure with JavaScript vars.

Web Development, HTML, CSS

519 points by OuterVale 104 days ago | 101 comments

Show HN: Mizu.js – Lightweight HTML templating library for any-side rendering (mizu.sh)
Supercharge your HTML!

JavaScript, HTML, Templating, Front-End Development, Open Source

225 points by lowlighter 104 days ago | 86 comments