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The latest HTML trickery for web designers

Chris Burnell's HTML Can Do That, built for HTML Day 2026, shows popover modals, squircle corners, and self-resizing textareas without JavaScript.

Rob Beschizza
Aug 21, 2026
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Photo: Inside Creative House / Shutterstock
Photo: Inside Creative House / Shutterstock

HTML Can Do That is a pleasantly minimal website by Chris Burnell, explaining some of the interesting tricks you can do without javascript or even styles. Did you know you can do popover modals now just with markup? Isn't that wonderful.

No JavaScript, just modern browser magic, thanks to the wonderful folks sp…

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