Displaying metric and imperial measurements
Websites that deal with calculations and measurements often need to solve the problem of using both metric and imperial units of measurement. This recipe will demonstrate a data-driven approach to dealing with unit conversions. As this is an HTML5 book, the solution will be implemented on the client side rather than on the server side.
We're going to implement a client-side, "ideal weight" calculator that supports metric and imperial measurements. This time, we're going to create a more general and elegant data-driven solution that utilizes modern HTML5 capabilities, such as data attributes. The goal is to abstract away the messy and error-prone conversion as much as possible.
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