Wait, you can do that with HTML?

Storybench · Oct 6, 2026

HTML has been gobbling up swaths of what used only to be doable using JavaScript. Read on for a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.

Popovers

This popover is easy to dismiss, using the Esc key or a button to close. There’s no managing z-index to wrangle it onto a top layer. All managed with popover and popovertarget(and popovertargetaction) attributes in HTML. Details on which browsers support the HTML popover.

Here’s an example:

button { padding: 10px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; background-color: orange; Toggle popover

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