In this article, we explore how to create a simple carousel with only HTML and CSS. Recently, when I was reminded of the existence of the CSS property scroll-snap, I thought it should be easy to create a simple carousel component with it. After outlining a quick proof of concept in a simple HTML file, my assumption was confirmed...
When building modern, component-based client-side applications, we often tend to forget about the foundations of web development: HTML and CSS. Sometimes we act as if the rules of writing semantic HTML are somehow no longer relevant. But the opposite is true...
A long time ago, there was practically no way around the HTML <table> element for creating complex layouts on the web. Fortunately, those days are long gone. Nowadays, we only use the <table> element as it should be used: to display tabular data. However, only recently, I was reminded again that styling tables is not as easy as one might think...