Archive
Every article published on Clean Markup—covering semantic HTML, CSS layout systems, JavaScript algorithms, and web performance.
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Graph Traversal with Breadth-First and Depth-First Search in JavaScript
Exploring DOM trees and adjacency graphs in JavaScript with clean iterative and recursive implementations of BFS and DFS. -
Simplifying Selector Specificity with CSS is and where
Eliminating repetitive selector lists and taming specificity wars in design systems with the forgiving is and zero-specificity where pseudo-classes. -
Accessible Modal Dialogs with the Native HTML Dialog Element
Building accessible modal overlays focus management and backdrop styling with semantic HTML dialog markup and minimal JavaScript. -
CSS Logical Properties for Multi-Directional Layouts
Replacing physical top right bottom and left declarations with flow-relative inline and block CSS Logical Properties for effortless RTL and LTR support. -
Responsive Component Design with ResizeObserver in JavaScript
How to build self-adapting UI components that respond to their own container dimensions rather than the global viewport using the ResizeObserver API. -
Preventing Layout Shifts with Modern CSS Aspect Ratio Boxes
For years responsive video embeds and fluid card thumbnails required the padding-top percentage wrapper hack. Now browsers compute intrinsic aspect ratios directly from HTML width and height attributes alongside the emerging CSS aspect-ratio property. -
Divide and Conquer Sorting with Merge Sort in JavaScript
While elementary sorting algorithms like Bubble Sort degrade to quadratic O(n^2) time on large datasets, Merge Sort uses a recursive divide-and-conquer strategy to guarantee O(n log n) performance across best, average, and worst-case inputs. -
Optimizing HTML and CSS for Core Web Vitals LCP FID and CLS
Google recently introduced Core Web Vitals as a unified set of real-world user experience metrics focusing on loading speed, interactivity, and visual stability. Here is how clean HTML and CSS directly improve Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift. -
Grouping Media and Code Snippets Semantically with Figure and Figcaption
Many developers only reach for the HTML figure element when embedding photographs, yet the specification defines it for any self-contained unit of content referenced from the main prose including code listings, SVG diagrams, and attributed quotations. -
Canceling Stale Network Requests in JavaScript with AbortController
Asynchronous race conditions frequently happen in typeahead search inputs and tab navigation when an older slow HTTP response resolves after a newer fast request. Using the DOM AbortController API with fetch lets you cancel in-flight requests cleanly.









