HTML Tags & Attributes — attach semantic data to your design and ensure a seamless dev handoff

About this plugin

The "HTML Tags and Attributes' offers a semantic approach to design in Figma, enabling you to infuse your elements with HTML semantics (HTML tags and attributes like 'h1, header, main, menu, class', id...ARIA).

By allowing the attachment of tags and attributes and data to design elements, it bridges the gap between visual design and web development. This plugin not only enhances the design-to-development workflow but also fosters interoperability among plugins, ensuring that design data is rich, accessible, and translatable into code. Whether it's applying common attributes or specific ARIA labels, "Tags and Attributes' empowers you to create more meaningful, web-ready designs.

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Features

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• Semantic Tagging: Attach HTML tags to design elements for semantic. (h1,h2....header, footer...span, menu...)
• Attribute Assignment: Assign common and tag-specific attributes to elements. (class, id, href.....)
• ARIA Support: Enhance accessibility with ARIA attribute integration. (role...aria-describedby...)
• Interoperability: Share data across plugins with setSharedPluginData, enhancing collaborative capabilities.

       
   const attributes = node.getSharedPluginData('figma.attributes', 'attributes');

   // attributes object will be like this { tag: 'h2', attributes: {id: 'main-title', class: 'heading'} }

• Dual Inspect Modes:
• On Frame Overlay: Visualize HTML semantics directly on the design canvas.
• On Layer Inspection: View attached tags and attributes in the Layers panel, with tags prefixed for easy identification.
• Visualization, SEO and Audit features will come later
• Multi Edit: Simultaneously edit tags and attributes across multiple elements, streamlining the design process.
• Component Tag & Attribute Inheritance: Tags and attributes attached to a component automatically propagate to all instances, ensuring semantic consistency across your design.

Supported plugins

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1) The "figma.to.website" plugin will extract data from your markup and generate semantic code.

Possible Use Cases

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• Accessibility Auditing: Designers can ensure their designs meet accessibility standards by using ARIA tags and attributes, facilitating an accessible web right from the design phase.
• Design-to-Development Handoff: Developers can quickly understand the semantic structure of a design, speeding up HTML/CSS coding processes.
• Educational Tool: Helps new designers and developers learn HTML and CSS semantics by applying them directly in a visual design context.
• Collaborative Design Review: Teams can review designs with semantic tags and attributes visible, ensuring that design intentions are clearly communicated.
• Plugin Collaboration: Other Figma plugins can access the semantic data for various purposes, such as generating code snippets or enhancing design documentation.
• Quality Assurance: Facilitate the QA process by providing clear semantics for testing scripts and automation tools, ensuring that all elements are correctly implemented and accessible.
• Content Strategy Development: Strategize content hierarchy and SEO through the application of header tags (h1, h2, etc.), helping content strategists plan out the information architecture.
• Style Guide Creation: Automatically generate a comprehensive style guide that includes HTML/CSS attributes, helping developers understand the design system's semantics.
• Internationalization and Localization: Easily tag text elements with language attributes, assisting in the preparation of designs for multi-language support and localization.

Here's how you can contribute:

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Happy Designing!