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Details tag lacks sufficient styling and summary text
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.
Screenshot of the bottom part of this question:
It's rendered pretty much identically in Safari and Firefox.
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The text is not determined by styling, but by a summary tag that is supposed to be inside the details tag, and that is missing in the quoted question.
Example
<details>
<summary>Example</summary>
Content here
</details>
Note that while formally the summary tag is optional in the HTML specification, it also explicitly specifies that a browser-specific legend is displayed if no summary is given. Which in turn means that if you want any control on what is shown as legend, the summary tag essentially is mandatory.
I don't think you can set through styling the default text shown when the summary tag is missing.
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