ugh I was so excited to see pure HTML modals were a thing with <dialog> only to find out there's no way of triggering them without JavaScript. Using pure HTML you can only dismiss them, not trigger them.
> dialog elements are a great addition and I'm glad they're getting implemented, but a key part of their functionality relies on JavaScript: to open a <dialog> you need to use JavaScript to set the open attribute.
> It'd be great if there was a way to make a <a> or a <button> elements capable of opening dialogs.
> Precident already exists for page interactivity baked into HTML - for example <a href="#.."> can already scroll the page, and <details> elements are capable of hiding elements behind interactivity, so I think it stands to reason <dialog> elements could be opened by other page elements.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3567
> dialog elements are a great addition and I'm glad they're getting implemented, but a key part of their functionality relies on JavaScript: to open a <dialog> you need to use JavaScript to set the open attribute.
> It'd be great if there was a way to make a <a> or a <button> elements capable of opening dialogs.
> Precident already exists for page interactivity baked into HTML - for example <a href="#.."> can already scroll the page, and <details> elements are capable of hiding elements behind interactivity, so I think it stands to reason <dialog> elements could be opened by other page elements.