Today, my colleague Freek asked for help embedding the webview of an email campaign in an iframe. He needed it in an iframe because embedding the HTML directly caused layout issues because the website's CSS clashed with it.
After setting up the iframe, we needed to find a way to dynamically resize it based on its contents to avoid double scrollbars on the page. While possible, it required some icky scripting.
I took a step back. The problem at hand was that the CSS needed to be scoped somehow. While iframes were the only solution for a long time, these days we have the shadow DOM.
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Now that we've built a dropdown list, lets add some transitions to create open & close animations.
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On to our first component: a dropdown list. I'm going to walk through the implementation I landed on in a recent project. There are many ways to build dropdowns, and you might want to shape the API your way, so use this post as a source of inspiration.
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In the previous posts, we've gone through our first few utility functions. We now have enough in our toolbox to move on to our first component. However, where do all these functions belong?
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After learning how to select elements in the DOM, it's time to zoom into events. This is the third post in the JavaScript Framework Diet series.
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Lets get warmed up! Before we can get productive, we need two small helpers that we'll be using in most components we'll build from here on. I'm talking about $ and $$, which are wrappers around document.querySelector and document.querySelectorAll.
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In Selecting elements (part 1) we learned how to select elements from the DOM, and how to find elements inside other elements, both with our own $ and $$ helpers.
In part 2, we're going to review two DOM element instance methods: closest and matches.
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JavaScript frameworks are great, but overused. Adding small bits of interactivity to an interface shouldn't mean installing kilobytes of dependencies or introducing complex build tools.
It's time for a diet. I'm challenging you to build something without a framework, or follow along and learn something along the way.
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