The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is a set a guidelines for how to make websites accessible. The second version was published in 2008, before websites were available on mobile devices in any meaningful way. A few months ago, the WCAG was updated to version 2.1, which includes a...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how to make the abbr element work for touchscreen, keyboard, and mouse. My suggestion involved making the <abbr> element focusable with the tabindex attribute and using pseudo-elements to create a tooltip from the title attribute. <abbr title="Cascading Style...

The <abbr> element is used to denote and define an acronym. For example, if we want to write the acronym “CSS” anywhere on a web page, we can also provide the full name “Cascading Style Sheets” for readers unfamiliar with the acronym. This is done by wrapping the...

UPDATE: Some people have pointed out some genuinely great use cases for this property which I've listed at the end of the article. I still stand by all the points I made against the use cases I pointed out in this article, but I now believe there are some good...

Many web pages today have their content dynamically changed using Javascript. An example of this is the search page on this blog. When the page is initially loaded, the only content in the <main> section of the page is a search form. But, when you type in a...