HTML Traits
16 days ago
- #javascript
- #web-development
- #html
- HTML Traits is an experimental JavaScript library for adding multiple interactive behaviors to HTML elements via a simple 'traits' attribute.
- It offers clean, composable functionality without wrapper elements, unlike traditional web components.
- Advantages include composition over inheritance, multiple traits per element, ordered traits, and progressive enhancement.
- The library avoids unnecessary container elements, keeps HTML clean, and leverages native element behavior.
- Example use case: enhancing a textarea with auto-expanding and character limit traits without nested elements.
- HTML Traits is not a full web component implementation and doesn't support Shadow DOM.
- A sample implementation shows defining a 'character-limit' trait using native HTML attributes like 'maxlength'.