Frontend Mentor - FAQ accordion card solution

This is a solution to the FAQ accordion card challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshots
  • Links
• My process
  • Built with
  • What I learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Author

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• View the optimal layout for the component depending on their device's screen size
• See hover states for all interactive elements on the page
• Hide/Show the answer to a question when the question is clicked

Screenshots

Links

• Solution URL: https://github.com/webdevbynight/faq-accordion-card-main
• Live Site URL: https://webdevbynight.github.io/faq-accordion-card-main/

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS (via SCSS)
  • custom properties
  • pseudo-classes
  • pseudo-elements
  • CSS sprite
• Mobile-first workflow

What I learned

I learned how to show and hide the answers of the questions without using any line of JavaScript.

Safari is buggy when using a pseudo-element with a height defined at 100%: when opening an answer, the container does not fit its new calculated height.

Continued development

Even if I did not feel I spent too much time carrying out this challenge, I still have to learn about how to make front-end development in a more efficient way and to learn to manage to build web pages without seeming to be too slow.

Useful resources

• The “Interactive elements” section from the HTML 5 specification - This helped me to learn about the details and summary elements and the open attribute.
• Can I use… HTML element: summary: display: list-item - This helped me about browsers compatibility of the use of display: list-item (and therefore of the list-style-* properties) on the summary element.
• Quick Reminder that Details/Summary is the Easiest Way Ever to Make an Accordion - This article helped me to find an excellent solution to carry out the challenge, including its bonus (i.e. to make an accordion without JavaScript).
• Two Issues Styling the Details Element and How to Solve Them - This article helped me about some issues when styling a details element.
• Personnaliser le marqueur de révélation - This section of article (in French) gives a tip to customise the disclosure widget on Safari, which does not support the standard way of customising it (at the time when I wrote these lines, the issue concerned Safari 16.4 and lower versions).

Author

• Website - @webdevbynight
• Frontend Mentor - @webdevbynight