<pride-flag> Web Component

Danny Engelman - Jun 17 '23 - - Dev Community

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In his blog-post Pride Flags Josh Comeau does an excellent job creating an animated pride flag.

  • He creates good HTML
  • He adds cool CSS gradients
  • He writes native JavaScript
  • And then, to put the Pride Flag in the DOM, he spoils it all by loading a 109 Kb dependency:

He was just three lines short from creating a native JavaScript Web Component <pride-flag> that would run in every Framework, in every modern browser, without! ANY dependencies

customElements.define("pride-flag", class extends HTMLElement {
  connectedCallback(){
    this.innerHTML = PrideFlag();
  }
});
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All credits to Josh, I refactored his code a bit, so https://pride-flag.github.io delivers a native JavaScript Web Component <pride-flag>

Sources: https://github.com/pride-flag/pride-flag.github.io

Extending <pride-flag> itself with:

customElements.define('pride-pan-flag', 
  class extends customElements.get('pride-flag') {
    connectedCallback() {
        super.connectedCallback([[331, 100, 55], [50, 100, 50], [200, 100, 55]]);
    }
});
customElements.define('pride-trans-flag', 
  class extends customElements.get('pride-flag') {
    connectedCallback() {
        super.connectedCallback([[200, 85, 70], [350, 85, 85], [0, 0, 100], [350, 85, 85], [200, 85, 70]]);
    }
});
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adds 2 more Web Components.

All required HTML:

<script src="https://pride-flag.github.io/element.js"></script>

<style>
  flags {display:grid; grid: 1fr/1fr 1fr 1fr; gap:1em}
</style>

<flags>
  <pride-flag columns="10">
      </pride-flag>
  <pride-pan-flag columns="100" delay="20" billow="1">
      </pride-pan-flag>
  <pride-trans-flag columns="200" delay="20" speed="1700" billow="2">
      </pride-trans-flag>
</flags>
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creates:

Flag Configurator at: https://pride-flag.github.io

More Flags in a Web Component: https://flagmeister.github.io




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