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7 HTML attribute you should know right now!

If you are web developper you are using HTML for sure! You are using a lot of HTML attribute, but today you will learn some news!

bdo

The HTML element overrides the current directionality of text, so that the text within is rendered in a different direction ! You can use dir option to indicate this direction.

  • ltr -> Indicates that the text should go in a left-to-right direction

  • rtl -> Indicates that the text should go in a right-to-left direction.

<p>
    <bdo dir="ltr">This text will go left to right.</bdo>
</p>
<p>
    <bdo dir="rtl">This text will go right to left.</bdo>
</p>
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kbd

If you need to show shortcut to your user, you should use kbd! It represents a span of inline text denoting textual user input from a keyboard.

<p>Please press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>R</kbd> to re-render a browser page.</p>
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details

The HTML element creates a disclosure widget in which information is visible only when the widget is toggled into an "open" state. A summary or label must be provided using the element.

<details>
    <summary>Details</summary>
    Something small enough to escape casual notice.
</details>
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contenteditable

The contenteditable attribute specifies whether the content of an element is editable or not!

<p contenteditable="true">This is an editable paragraph.</p>
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abbr

The <abbr> tag defines an abbreviation or an acronym, like "HTML", "CSS" and show the complete title when hover this tag.

<p>You can use <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr> to style your <abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr>.</p>
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translate

Indicate to HTML is this content need to be translated or not (by google translate for example).

<p translate="no">CodeOz</p>
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color picker

Yes as you just learn, you can easily create a color picker! ๐Ÿ‘‡

<input type="color">
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Pascal Thormeier โ€ข

Awesome, I didn't know about kbd! That might come in handy, thank you!

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GrahamTheDev โ€ข โ€ข Edited

It even works in markdown!, sadly it is not very accessible on DEV as they make the text smaller rather than making the surrounding box bigger.

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Posandu โ€ข

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I'm big enough :O (Hacking)

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GrahamTheDev โ€ข

Oh that hurts my very soul, a <h1> in a <kbd> element...why would you do that to me? I thought we were friends ๐Ÿคฃ

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GrahamTheDev โ€ข โ€ข Edited

Well I knew it would descend into madness, but i wasn't expecting a re-enactment of the famous StackOverflow RegEx answer so early on!

It has completely broken my notification screen and the comments here ๐Ÿคฃ, kudos!

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Code Oz โ€ข

happy to show you this ;D

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GrahamTheDev โ€ข โ€ข Edited

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You can use lots of HTML elements on DEV


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Francisco Blanchart โ€ข

Hello, CodeOz, interesting info here, but the title in this post can be a little bit confusing. You are mixing attributes and elements.

  • bdo, kbd, details (+summary) and abbr are ELEMENTS.

  • contenteditable, translate and type (with the value "color" in this case) are ATTRIBUTES (which are part of elements).

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Abdelrahman Dwedar โ€ข

Great article, good job. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป

I just want to know;
How can we use <details> in DEV?

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Code Oz โ€ข

I think we cannot since DEV didn't implement it!

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Abdelrahman Dwedar โ€ข

Isn't there any way in markdown at least?

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vladi160 โ€ข

Pay attention about contenteditable, if you copy/paste text in it from apps like Word. It doesn't escape the formatting/styles

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Code Oz โ€ข

nice comment thanks !

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Ichi โ€ข

May I translate and introduce this article on my blog?
Thank you :D
0115765.com

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Code Oz โ€ข

if you put the original source link of course ;D

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Ichi โ€ข

Thanks a lot!
I'll share it with Japanese people!

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Code Oz โ€ข

Nice bro! send me the link when you made it :D

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Ichi โ€ข

It was introduced on this page.
0115765.com/archives/5407
It's basically written from the ground up in Japanese, so I figure it's pretty straightforward! Thank you!

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Code Oz โ€ข

Nice ๐Ÿ˜

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Bill Raymond โ€ข

I did not plan on doing any code today but now I obviously need to try kbd:)

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Code Oz โ€ข

nice to help you :D

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GrmlGrml โ€ข

Nice article !

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Code Oz โ€ข

๐Ÿ˜‚

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Siddharth โ€ข โ€ข Edited

You can mix anything except XSSy stuff


You can go small



You can go smaller




You can go even smaller









Invisible

You can go smaller

You can go even more

You still here?

Go do your work

Why are you still here?

More importantly, how are you still reading this?







Invisible

You can go smaller

You can go even more

You still here?

Go do your work

Why are you still here?

No, you cant read this. It's impossible. What, you are reading this?
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Diegocs2410 โ€ข

Thanks You So much!

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Code Oz โ€ข

Happy to help you bro !

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