Demo Topbar layout

Base Styles

Prose, tables, figures, lists, code, and document structure styled by the shared stylesheet.

Layout Top Menu bar
Content 38 Elements
Mode OS 9 Platinum

Library Principles

The quick design brief, tested as normal content.

  1. Style semantic HTML before requiring classes.
  2. Make interactive controls look tactile, raised, and focusable.
  3. Use ARIA attributes for stateful styling where behavior belongs in a paired script.
  4. Keep layouts predictable across topbar, sidebar, and mobile scroll shells.
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Type Scale

Heading stack, inline text, and rhythm.

Heading One

Heading Two

Heading Three

Heading Four

Heading Five
Heading Six

Body text can include links, marked text, strong text, emphasis, HTML, inline code, Tab, and sample output.

Long-Form Article

A realistic article with mixed semantic content.

Classic interfaces should make structure obvious. This paragraph checks rhythm, contrast, and spacing against adjacent lists, quoted material, and dense metadata.

Depth can be a usability affordance when it tells the eye what is interactive, grouped, or foregrounded.

Design note from the mockup brief

Unordered List

  • Controls need clear raised and pressed states.
  • Panels should have visible edges without looking decorative.
  • Mobile should collapse to readable vertical flow.

Definition List

Surface
A bounded area with a visible edge and slight elevation.
Focus
An unmistakable outline that survives dense layouts.
Measure
A line length tuned for reading rather than filling all available width.

Figure and Media

Inline SVG stands in for screenshots, diagrams, or product images.

Classic window diagram A platinum window with a top bar, sidebar, and content pane.
SVG, figure, caption, and image scaling should behave without additional page CSS.

Dense Table

Wide tables should scroll horizontally on small screens.

Classic CSS element coverage table
Element Purpose Default Treatment State Hook Status
article Independent content block Raised panel with header and footer support None Ready
details Native disclosure Low elevation disclosure block open Review
button Primary command Beveled physical control aria-pressed, aria-busy Ready
input Form entry Sunken text field or custom native control aria-invalid Expanded

Code and Preformatted Text

Tests overflow, monospace color, and keyboard hints.

Use Tab and Shift + Tab to inspect focus states in the test pages.

button[aria-busy="true"] {
  pointer-events: none;
}

body.layout-sidebar {
  grid-template-columns: 16rem minmax(0, 1fr);
}

Component Examples

Buttons, tabs, notices, menus, pagination, stats, progress indicators, dialogs, and compact app surfaces.

Open lessons 24 Healthy
Review queue 7 Attention
Broken links 2 Fix
Draft modules 13 Queued

Buttons

Variants, busy state, pressed state, disabled state, and role-based buttons.

Anchor Button

Notices

Default, info, success, warning, and danger variants.

Neutral notice with default informational treatment.
Informational notice for general feedback.
The update completed successfully.
A paired script may be needed for this interaction.
Unable to save because a required field is missing.

Tabs

Driven by ARIA roles; switching behavior belongs to a paired script.

This panel is a static mockup. Behavior can be added by a small paired script later.

Draft Accessible Needs Script Semantic

Disclosure

Native details and summary styling.

What is styled by default?

Text, links, lists, tables, code, forms, buttons, articles, details, dialogs, and ARIA-driven states.

Does it require classes?

No for the basics. Classes are used for layout helpers, notices, badges, and app-oriented compositions.

How does mobile behave?

The page shells collapse into vertical flow, and toolbars become stacked full-width controls.

Progress

Native progress and meter elements.

72% syncing 86 62 88

Dialog

A static preview of native dialog styling.

Confirm Publish

This mock dialog uses the same styles as a native modal while staying in document flow for testing.

Window Chrome

A framed application surface with titlebar, pane, and statusbar.

Untitled Document

Window container with titlebar, pane, and statusbar.

Ready

Compact List

Avatars, badges, statuses, and dense rows.

HS
Hypermedia Systems

Chapter refresh

Ready
CSS
Classic CSS

Button and layout pass

Review

Pagination

Links get tactile edges without needing button classes.