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Just use a button

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284 points moebrowne | 2 comments | 31 Oct 25 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.537s | source
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donatj ◴[31 Oct 25 18:45 UTC] No.45775305[source]▶
I would love to see this expanded into "Just use the HTML element that was built for that explicit purpose". I feel like your average SPA developer doesn't understand what even a quarter of the HTML elements are meant for and just reinvent the wheel every time.
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1. christophilus ◴[31 Oct 25 20:34 UTC] No.45776404[source]▶
I wish the elements were just stylable, then. For example, the date picker sucks. I’d love to use it and eschew a JS based one, but my clients complain that it’s ugly.
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2. kgwxd ◴[01 Nov 25 00:21 UTC] No.45778155[source]▶
When IE died I thought for sure the path was clear for highly styleable form elements and tables with all the features that countless third-party libraries have re-implemented for every new UI framework that comes out. Now I don't think we're going to get there before I die.