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Details tag lacks sufficient styling and summary text

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Expandable and collapsible text sections, created using the details HTML tag, are insufficiently stylized. This causes the browser to apply its own rules, for instance showing the default text "detaljer" in my browsers, as I run them in Norwegian.

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It's rendered pretty much identically in Safari and Firefox.

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posted 5 months ago
5mo ago by trichoplax‭
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Karl Knechtel‭ wrote 5 months ago
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Since this is default text that isn't being provided by the actual post content, it seems natural to me that the browser would want to localize it. I would call that a feature.

Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭ wrote 5 months ago
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It’s not a feature when I’m reading English content, only a detraction. It makes no sense to splash a Norwegian word in there, when literally every other part of the website is English. It’s part of the text, not a context menu I open by right-clicking.

celtschk‭ wrote 5 months ago
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Given that the HTML is clearly marked as English (lang="en" attribute on the HTML tag), I think it is a rather poor choice of the Browser makers to ignore that. But that's of course not Codidact's fault.