---
title: "HTML popover Attribute"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/html-popover-attribute-ewydfm9v3
source_url: https://davidwalsh.name/html-popover-attribute
type: article
source: "David Walsh"
published: 2024-04-15T11:21:51.350Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z
tags: ["css", "html", "ux"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 50
comments: 7
language: en
---

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# HTML popover Attribute

**[David Walsh](https://daily.dev/sources/dwb)** · 2 min read · 50 upvotes · 7 comments

## Summary

Learn how to create a native HTML modal using the popover attribute and style its contents. Discover how to add a background layer to the popover modal.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://davidwalsh.name/html-popover-attribute>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ethandotlog** · 2 upvotes

> Dang - had no clue...
>
> This is way less code than what I was doing 😄

**@noricode** · 0 upvotes

> omg david walsh is alive!

**@sebconejo** · 0 upvotes

> And moreover it's supported by Firefox. 😄😄😄

**@armajjet** · 0 upvotes

> Nice :) Thanks for the share. For sure will use it.

**@devendrasinghbhandari** · 0 upvotes

> Amazing!

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