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You don't know HTML Lists

https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/05/13/you-dont-know-html-lists/
94•speckx•1h ago

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jimmaswell•41m ago
Lots of useful information I wasn't aware of after being a front-end lead for years. I'll start using these at work for sure.
appplication•41m ago
This was a fun little read. Just through testing the examples, I also learned datalist does not seem to work well on mobile safari (which is a large enough market I might even say there’s essentially no scenario in which it’s worth using if there’s a compatibility issue).
MattGaiser•14m ago
Way back when I was working my first job, datalist didn’t work on Firefox. That’s what got Firefox removed from the list of supported browsers.

It has been a problem for a long time if you want to support anything other than Chrome.

zombot•40m ago
What I always wanted to know about lists and never dared to ask!
reconnecting•33m ago
This is how real HTML magic should look like:

<MARQUEE>

  <OL>
      <LI>One</LI>
      <LI>Two</LI>
      <LI>Three</LI>
  </OL>
</MARQUEE>
recroad•27m ago

    <BLINK>
      <MARQUEE>
        <OL>
          <LI>One</LI>
          <LI>Two</LI>
          <LI>Three</LI>
        </OL>
      </MARQUEE>
    </BLINK>
FTFY
reconnecting•24m ago
<MARK>FTFY</MARK>
VladVladikoff•30m ago
>What if there’s a bunch of options, but for [reasons] we don’t want a user to be able to select a subset of them? Let’s add the disabled attribute to an optgroup

Seems broken in mobile safari, not actually disabled I can still select the disabled items.

p2detar•24m ago
Not broken, but strange since it should be working on latest Safari.

https://caniuse.com/mdn-html_elements_optgroup_disabled

I think it may be a Safari bug.

montroser•30m ago
Good stuff, except don't get too excited about `datalist`. It just doesn't have enough hooks to be actually useful for anything other than a little prototype.
iammrpayments•18m ago
I think I’ve tried building a combobox using datalist once but it didn’t work
MagicMoonlight•24m ago
That’s a really good article. It’s nice to see something which isn’t slop.
jdw64•12m ago
HTML linters actually help distinguish things like that? I'm curious if there are any linters out there that can enforce this kind of semantic tag selection.
asveikau•7m ago
Title reminds me of Joni Mitchell.

    I've looked at lists from both sides now
    From give and take and still somehow
    It's HTML lists' illusions I recall 
    I really don't know HTML lists at all

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