Build modals in minutes with the dialog element

✉ Keep up to date with everything I'm up to https://www.kevinpowell.co/newsletter ✅ Video where I look at popover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNXEORSk4GU ✅ a11yproject on visually hidden: https://www.a11yproject.com/posts/how-to-hide-content/ ✅ Adrian’s article deailng with focus: https://adrianroselli.com/2025/06/where-to-put-focus-when-opening-a-modal-dialog.html 💬 Come hang out with other devs in my Discord Community https://discord.gg/nTYCvrK ⭐ Are you a beginner? HTML & CSS for absolute beginners is for you: https://learn.kevinpowell.co 🎓 Start writing CSS with confidence with CSS Demystified: [https://cssdemystified.com](https://cssdemystified.com/) 🚀 Already mastered CSS? Check out my advanced course, Beyond CSS: https://www.beyondcss.dev/ ⌚ Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction 00:45 - the basics of the dialog element 03:00 - opening the dialog with .show() and .showModal() 07:30 - adding a button to close the dialog 09:00 - dealing with autofocus 11:15 - make the close button accessible 12:25 - styling them - there are a lot of user agent styles! 20:30 - prevent the page from scrolling when a modal is opened 22:30 - styling the backdrop 23:55 - only add flex or grid on the opened state 25:40 - use case for the .show() method 27:20 - overcoming positioning issues that you might run into #css --- Help support my channel 👨‍🎓 Get a course: https://www.kevinpowell.co/courses 👕 Buy a shirt: https://cottonbureau.com/people/kevin-powell 💖 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kevinpowell or through YT memberships: https://youtube.com/@KevinPowell/join --- 🧑‍💻 My editor: VS Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/ 🌈 My theme: One Dark Pro Var Night 🔤 My font: Cascadia Code --- I'm on some other places on the internet too! If you'd like a behind the scenes and previews of what's coming up on my YouTube channel: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/kevinpowell.co Codepen: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/ Github: https://github.com/kevin-powell