News — Inline Newsletter Signup
An editorial inline newsletter signup module styled like a real broadsheet, set inside a fictional harbor-town front page. A red-ruled brief block carries a let-spaced kicker, a serif headline, a one-line value prop, an email field with live validation, Daily and Weekly frequency chips, a privacy note and a live subscriber count. A dark compact sidebar variant mirrors it. Vanilla JS handles validation, frequency selection, a success state, a toast and an incrementing reader tally.
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:root {
--cream: #f4efe4;
--paper: #faf7f0;
--white: #ffffff;
--newsprint: #efe9da;
--ink: #16130f;
--ink-2: #2b2620;
--ink-3: #4a443b;
--muted: #7a7164;
--red: #b4291f;
--red-d: #8f1f17;
--red-50: #f3dcd9;
--rule: rgba(22, 19, 15, 0.16);
--rule-2: rgba(22, 19, 15, 0.30);
--rule-hair: rgba(22, 19, 15, 0.10);
--ok: #2f7d4f;
--warn: #b67a18;
--danger: #b4291f;
--r-sm: 4px;
--r-md: 8px;
--r-lg: 12px;
--serif: "Playfair Display", "Times New Roman", Georgia, serif;
--sans: "Inter", system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif;
}
* { box-sizing: border-box; }
html { -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; }
body {
margin: 0;
background: var(--cream);
color: var(--ink);
font-family: var(--sans);
line-height: 1.5;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}
.skip-link {
position: absolute;
left: -999px;
top: 0;
background: var(--ink);
color: var(--paper);
padding: 8px 14px;
z-index: 50;
font: 600 13px/1 var(--sans);
}
.skip-link:focus { left: 12px; top: 12px; }
:focus-visible {
outline: 2px solid var(--red);
outline-offset: 2px;
}
/* ============ MASTHEAD ============ */
.masthead {
max-width: 1080px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 18px 24px 0;
text-align: center;
}
.masthead__top {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
align-items: center;
font: 600 11px/1 var(--sans);
letter-spacing: 0.14em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--muted);
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--rule-hair);
padding-bottom: 10px;
}
.masthead__title {
display: block;
font-family: var(--serif);
font-weight: 900;
font-size: clamp(2.6rem, 8vw, 5rem);
line-height: 0.96;
letter-spacing: -0.01em;
color: var(--ink);
text-decoration: none;
margin: 14px 0 6px;
}
.masthead__title:hover { color: var(--ink-2); }
.masthead__tag {
font: italic 500 14px/1.4 var(--serif);
color: var(--ink-3);
margin: 0 0 14px;
}
.masthead__nav {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
flex-wrap: wrap;
gap: 26px;
border-top: 3px double var(--rule-2);
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--rule-2);
padding: 10px 0;
}
.masthead__nav a {
font: 600 12px/1 var(--sans);
letter-spacing: 0.14em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--ink-2);
text-decoration: none;
}
.masthead__nav a:hover { color: var(--red); }
/* ============ LAYOUT ============ */
.layout {
max-width: 1080px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 34px 24px 10px;
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1fr) 300px;
gap: 0 44px;
align-items: start;
}
/* ============ ARTICLE ============ */
.kicker {
font: 700 12px/1 var(--sans);
letter-spacing: 0.2em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--red);
margin: 0 0 12px;
}
.article__head {
font-family: var(--serif);
font-weight: 800;
font-size: clamp(2rem, 5vw, 3.2rem);
line-height: 1.04;
letter-spacing: -0.01em;
margin: 0 0 14px;
color: var(--ink);
}
.article__deck {
font: italic 500 clamp(1.05rem, 2.4vw, 1.35rem)/1.4 var(--serif);
color: var(--ink-3);
margin: 0 0 18px;
max-width: 36ch;
}
.byline {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
align-items: center;
gap: 9px;
font: 500 12px/1 var(--sans);
letter-spacing: 0.04em;
color: var(--muted);
text-transform: uppercase;
padding: 12px 0;
border-top: 1px solid var(--rule);
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--rule);
}
.byline__name { color: var(--ink); font-weight: 700; }
.byline__dot { color: var(--rule-2); }
/* figure */
.figure { margin: 22px 0; }
.figure__img {
aspect-ratio: 16 / 9;
border-radius: var(--r-sm);
border: 1px solid var(--rule);
}
.figure__img--harbor {
background:
radial-gradient(120% 90% at 78% 18%, rgba(244, 227, 184, 0.55), transparent 48%),
radial-gradient(90% 120% at 12% 90%, rgba(143, 31, 23, 0.20), transparent 55%),
linear-gradient(155deg, #2b2620 0%, #4a443b 36%, #7a6f5a 60%, #2b2620 100%);
position: relative;
}
.figure__img--harbor::after {
content: "";
position: absolute;
inset: 0;
border-radius: inherit;
background:
repeating-linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(255,255,255,0.04) 0 1px, transparent 1px 4px),
radial-gradient(60% 50% at 70% 28%, rgba(244,239,228,0.30), transparent 60%);
mix-blend-mode: screen;
}
.figure__cap {
font: italic 500 13px/1.5 var(--serif);
color: var(--ink-3);
margin-top: 8px;
border-left: 2px solid var(--red);
padding-left: 10px;
}
.figure__credit {
display: block;
font: 600 10px/1.4 var(--sans);
font-style: normal;
letter-spacing: 0.1em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--muted);
margin-top: 3px;
}
/* body copy */
.article__body {
column-count: 2;
column-gap: 36px;
column-rule: 1px solid var(--rule-hair);
font-size: 1.02rem;
color: var(--ink-2);
}
.article__body p {
margin: 0 0 1rem;
text-align: justify;
hyphens: auto;
}
.article__body .lead {
column-span: all;
font-size: 1.12rem;
text-align: left;
hyphens: none;
}
.article__body .lead::first-letter {
font-family: var(--serif);
font-weight: 800;
float: left;
font-size: 3.4em;
line-height: 0.74;
padding: 6px 10px 0 0;
color: var(--red);
}
/* pull quote */
.pullquote {
column-span: all;
margin: 14px 0 18px;
padding: 18px 0;
border-top: 3px double var(--rule-2);
border-bottom: 3px double var(--rule-2);
font-family: var(--serif);
font-weight: 600;
font-size: clamp(1.3rem, 3vw, 1.75rem);
line-height: 1.18;
color: var(--ink);
text-align: center;
}
.pullquote cite {
display: block;
margin-top: 10px;
font: 600 12px/1 var(--sans);
font-style: normal;
letter-spacing: 0.12em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--muted);
}
/* ============ INLINE SIGNUP (variant A) ============ */
.ns {
column-span: all;
background: var(--paper);
border: 1px solid var(--rule-2);
border-radius: var(--r-md);
padding: 26px 28px 22px;
margin: 8px 0 22px;
position: relative;
}
.ns__rule {
position: absolute;
top: 0; left: 0; right: 0;
height: 4px;
background: var(--red);
border-radius: var(--r-md) var(--r-md) 0 0;
}
.ns__kicker {
font: 700 11px/1 var(--sans);
letter-spacing: 0.24em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--red);
margin: 6px 0 10px;
}
.ns__head {
font-family: var(--serif);
font-weight: 700;
font-size: clamp(1.3rem, 3vw, 1.7rem);
line-height: 1.1;
margin: 0 0 8px;
color: var(--ink);
}
.ns__prop {
font-size: 0.98rem;
color: var(--ink-3);
margin: 0 0 18px;
max-width: 48ch;
}
.ns__form { margin: 0; }
.ns__field { margin: 0 0 16px; }
.ns__label {
display: block;
font: 700 10px/1 var(--sans);
letter-spacing: 0.16em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--muted);
margin: 0 0 7px;
}
.ns__inputrow {
display: flex;
gap: 10px;
}
.ns__input {
flex: 1;
min-width: 0;
font: 500 1rem/1.2 var(--sans);
color: var(--ink);
background: var(--white);
border: 1px solid var(--rule-2);
border-radius: var(--r-sm);
padding: 12px 14px;
}
.ns__input::placeholder { color: var(--muted); }
.ns__input:focus-visible { outline: 2px solid var(--red); outline-offset: 1px; }
.ns__input.is-invalid { border-color: var(--danger); background: #fbf1f0; }
.ns__btn {
font: 700 0.92rem/1 var(--sans);
letter-spacing: 0.04em;
color: var(--paper);
background: var(--ink);
border: 1px solid var(--ink);
border-radius: var(--r-sm);
padding: 0 22px;
cursor: pointer;
white-space: nowrap;
transition: background 0.15s ease, transform 0.05s ease;
}
.ns__btn:hover { background: var(--red); border-color: var(--red); }
.ns__btn:active { transform: translateY(1px); }
.ns__btn:disabled { opacity: 0.6; cursor: progress; }
.ns__error {
font: 600 12px/1.3 var(--sans);
color: var(--danger);
margin: 8px 0 0;
}
.ns__freq { border: 0; margin: 0 0 14px; padding: 0; }
.ns__freq-legend {
font: 700 10px/1 var(--sans);
letter-spacing: 0.16em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--muted);
margin: 0 0 8px;
padding: 0;
}
.ns__chips { display: flex; gap: 8px; }
.ns__chip {
font: 600 0.85rem/1 var(--sans);
color: var(--ink-2);
background: var(--white);
border: 1px solid var(--rule-2);
border-radius: 999px;
padding: 8px 18px;
cursor: pointer;
transition: background 0.12s ease, color 0.12s ease, border-color 0.12s ease;
}
.ns__chip:hover { border-color: var(--ink-3); }
.ns__chip.is-active {
background: var(--ink);
color: var(--paper);
border-color: var(--ink);
}
.ns__privacy {
font: 500 12px/1.4 var(--sans);
color: var(--muted);
margin: 0;
}
.ns__count {
font: 500 13px/1.4 var(--sans);
color: var(--ink-3);
margin: 16px 0 0;
padding-top: 14px;
border-top: 1px solid var(--rule-hair);
}
.ns__count [data-ns-count] {
font-weight: 700;
color: var(--ink);
font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
}
/* success collapse */
[data-newsletter].is-done .ns__form,
[data-newsletter].is-done .nsc__form { display: none; }
.ns__done,
.nsc__done {
font-family: var(--serif);
font-weight: 600;
color: var(--ok);
margin: 4px 0 0;
}
.ns__done { font-size: 1.15rem; }
.nsc__done { font-size: 1rem; }
/* ============ SIDEBAR ============ */
.rail { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 26px; }
.rail__block { }
.rail__title {
font: 700 12px/1 var(--sans);
letter-spacing: 0.18em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--ink);
margin: 0 0 12px;
padding-bottom: 8px;
border-bottom: 2px solid var(--ink);
}
.rail__list { list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
.rail__list li {
display: flex;
gap: 12px;
font-family: var(--serif);
font-weight: 600;
font-size: 1.02rem;
line-height: 1.22;
color: var(--ink-2);
padding: 12px 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--rule-hair);
}
.rail__num {
font-family: var(--serif);
font-weight: 800;
font-size: 1.5rem;
line-height: 1;
color: var(--red);
flex: none;
}
/* ===== COMPACT SIGNUP (variant B) ===== */
.nsc {
background: var(--ink);
color: var(--newsprint);
border-radius: var(--r-md);
padding: 22px 20px 18px;
}
.nsc__kicker {
font: 700 10px/1 var(--sans);
letter-spacing: 0.22em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: #e6a39d;
margin: 0 0 8px;
}
.nsc__head {
font-family: var(--serif);
font-weight: 700;
font-size: 1.4rem;
line-height: 1.08;
margin: 0 0 6px;
color: var(--white);
}
.nsc__prop {
font-size: 0.86rem;
color: rgba(244, 239, 228, 0.78);
margin: 0 0 14px;
}
.nsc__label { color: rgba(244, 239, 228, 0.6); }
.nsc__input {
width: 100%;
font: 500 0.95rem/1.2 var(--sans);
color: var(--ink);
background: var(--paper);
border: 1px solid transparent;
border-radius: var(--r-sm);
padding: 11px 13px;
}
.nsc__input:focus-visible { outline: 2px solid #e6a39d; outline-offset: 1px; }
.nsc__input.is-invalid { border-color: #e6a39d; background: #fbf1f0; }
.nsc__error { color: #f0b7b2; margin: 7px 0 0; }
.nsc__chips { display: flex; gap: 7px; margin: 13px 0; }
.nsc .ns__chip {
background: transparent;
color: var(--newsprint);
border-color: rgba(244, 239, 228, 0.32);
padding: 7px 15px;
font-size: 0.8rem;
}
.nsc .ns__chip:hover { border-color: rgba(244, 239, 228, 0.6); }
.nsc .ns__chip.is-active {
background: var(--red);
color: var(--white);
border-color: var(--red);
}
.nsc__btn {
width: 100%;
font: 700 0.92rem/1 var(--sans);
letter-spacing: 0.04em;
color: var(--white);
background: var(--red);
border: 1px solid var(--red);
border-radius: var(--r-sm);
padding: 12px;
cursor: pointer;
transition: background 0.15s ease, transform 0.05s ease;
}
.nsc__btn:hover { background: var(--red-d); }
.nsc__btn:active { transform: translateY(1px); }
.nsc__btn:disabled { opacity: 0.6; cursor: progress; }
.nsc__privacy {
font: 500 11px/1.4 var(--sans);
color: rgba(244, 239, 228, 0.6);
margin: 10px 0 0;
text-align: center;
}
.nsc__count {
font: 600 11px/1 var(--sans);
letter-spacing: 0.1em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: rgba(244, 239, 228, 0.7);
margin: 14px 0 0;
padding-top: 12px;
border-top: 1px solid rgba(244, 239, 228, 0.16);
text-align: center;
}
.nsc__count [data-ns-count] {
color: #e6a39d;
font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
}
/* weather block */
.rail__weather-line {
font: 500 0.95rem/1.4 var(--sans);
color: var(--ink-2);
margin: 0 0 4px;
}
.rail__weather-line strong { color: var(--red); }
.rail__weather-note {
font: italic 500 13px/1.4 var(--serif);
color: var(--muted);
margin: 8px 0 0;
}
/* ============ FOOTER ============ */
.footer {
max-width: 1080px;
margin: 30px auto 0;
padding: 18px 24px 40px;
border-top: 3px double var(--rule-2);
text-align: center;
font: 500 12px/1.5 var(--sans);
color: var(--muted);
}
/* ============ TOAST ============ */
.toast {
position: fixed;
left: 50%;
bottom: 26px;
transform: translate(-50%, 130%);
background: var(--ink);
color: var(--paper);
font: 600 14px/1.3 var(--sans);
padding: 13px 20px;
border-radius: var(--r-sm);
border-left: 4px solid var(--red);
box-shadow: 0 8px 24px rgba(22, 19, 15, 0.28);
z-index: 60;
max-width: min(420px, 90vw);
opacity: 0;
transition: transform 0.32s cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.8, 0.2, 1), opacity 0.32s ease;
}
.toast.is-on { transform: translate(-50%, 0); opacity: 1; }
/* ============ RESPONSIVE ============ */
@media (max-width: 900px) {
.layout { grid-template-columns: 1fr; gap: 36px; }
.rail { max-width: 560px; }
}
@media (max-width: 720px) {
.article__body { column-count: 1; }
.article__body .lead { font-size: 1.06rem; }
}
@media (max-width: 480px) {
.masthead__top { font-size: 10px; }
.masthead__price { display: none; }
.masthead__nav { gap: 16px; }
.ns { padding: 22px 18px 18px; }
.ns__inputrow { flex-direction: column; }
.ns__btn { padding: 12px; }
}
@media (max-width: 360px) {
.layout { padding: 24px 14px 8px; }
.masthead { padding: 14px 14px 0; }
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
* { transition-duration: 0.01ms !important; }
}(function () {
"use strict";
/* ---------- toast helper ---------- */
var toastEl = document.querySelector("[data-toast]");
var toastTimer = null;
function toast(msg) {
if (!toastEl) return;
toastEl.textContent = msg;
toastEl.classList.add("is-on");
window.clearTimeout(toastTimer);
toastTimer = window.setTimeout(function () {
toastEl.classList.remove("is-on");
}, 3400);
}
/* ---------- shared subscriber count (keeps both widgets in sync) ---------- */
var EMAIL_RE = /^[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+\.[^\s@]{2,}$/;
var counters = Array.prototype.slice.call(document.querySelectorAll("[data-ns-count]"));
var subscribers = 18402;
function renderCount() {
var label = subscribers.toLocaleString("en-US");
counters.forEach(function (el) {
// compact widget shows only the number, no "readers" suffix here
el.textContent = label;
});
}
renderCount();
function bumpCount() {
subscribers += 1;
renderCount();
// small tick animation
counters.forEach(function (el) {
el.style.transition = "color .2s ease";
el.style.color = "var(--ok)";
window.setTimeout(function () {
el.style.color = "";
}, 600);
});
}
/* ---------- wire up each newsletter widget ---------- */
var widgets = document.querySelectorAll("[data-newsletter]");
widgets.forEach(function (widget) {
var form = widget.querySelector("[data-ns-form]");
if (!form) return;
var input = form.querySelector('input[type="email"]');
var error = form.querySelector('.ns__error, .nsc__error');
var submitBtn = form.querySelector('button[type="submit"]');
var chips = Array.prototype.slice.call(form.querySelectorAll(".ns__chip"));
var freqValue = form.querySelector("[data-freq-value]");
/* frequency chips behave as a radio group */
chips.forEach(function (chip) {
chip.addEventListener("click", function () {
chips.forEach(function (c) {
c.classList.remove("is-active");
c.setAttribute("aria-checked", "false");
});
chip.classList.add("is-active");
chip.setAttribute("aria-checked", "true");
if (freqValue) freqValue.value = chip.getAttribute("data-freq");
});
/* keyboard: arrow keys move between chips */
chip.addEventListener("keydown", function (e) {
var idx = chips.indexOf(chip);
var next = null;
if (e.key === "ArrowRight" || e.key === "ArrowDown") next = chips[(idx + 1) % chips.length];
if (e.key === "ArrowLeft" || e.key === "ArrowUp") next = chips[(idx - 1 + chips.length) % chips.length];
if (next) {
e.preventDefault();
next.focus();
next.click();
}
});
});
function clearError() {
if (!error) return;
error.hidden = true;
error.textContent = "";
if (input) input.classList.remove("is-invalid");
}
function showError(msg) {
if (error) {
error.hidden = false;
error.textContent = msg;
}
if (input) {
input.classList.add("is-invalid");
input.focus();
}
}
if (input) input.addEventListener("input", clearError);
form.addEventListener("submit", function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
var value = input ? input.value.trim() : "";
if (!value) {
showError("Please enter your email address.");
return;
}
if (!EMAIL_RE.test(value)) {
showError("That doesn’t look like a valid email — check for typos.");
return;
}
clearError();
var freq = freqValue ? freqValue.value : "daily";
var freqLabel = freq === "weekly" ? "weekly" : "daily";
/* simulate request */
if (submitBtn) {
submitBtn.disabled = true;
submitBtn.dataset.label = submitBtn.textContent;
submitBtn.textContent = "Subscribing…";
}
window.setTimeout(function () {
widget.classList.add("is-done");
/* inject a success line in place of the form */
var isCompact = widget.classList.contains("nsc");
var done = document.createElement("p");
done.className = isCompact ? "nsc__done" : "ns__done";
done.setAttribute("role", "status");
done.textContent = "✓ You’re in — the " + freqLabel + " brief is on its way.";
var anchor = form;
anchor.parentNode.insertBefore(done, anchor);
bumpCount();
toast("Subscribed to The Morning Brief (" + freqLabel + "). Check your inbox to confirm.");
}, 650);
});
});
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<span class="byline__name">By Marisol Trevino</span>
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<span class="byline__date">Pier Nine, Tidewater</span>
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<em>The restored tide clock at dawn, its brass face freshly turned.</em>
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For most of the last four decades, the tide clock bolted to the head of Pier Nine
read the same wrong hour — frozen at a quarter to six, a small civic embarrassment
that nobody quite knew how to fix. The harbormaster called it folklore. The gulls
called it a perch. On the first Monday of June, at precisely high water, the
brass hands began to move.
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The repair is the work of Esther Quill, seventy-three, a machinist who spent her
career fitting marine gearboxes two streets over and who, by her own account, had
"walked past that dead clock one too many times." She arrived in March with a
canvas roll of tools and a coffee can of salvaged fittings, set up a folding stool,
and went to work where the whole town could watch.
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Restoring the mechanism meant machining three replacement gears by hand, each no
larger than a coat button, and coaxing the float linkage — the part that actually
reads the rising and falling water — back into true. "The tide never stopped,"
Quill said, wiping brass polish from her thumb. "Only the clock did. My job was
just to introduce them again."
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“A town that can’t tell its own tide has forgotten how to listen to the water.”
<cite>— Esther Quill, machinist</cite>
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City records suggest the clock was installed in 1948 and last serviced sometime
before the harbor's commercial fleet thinned in the eighties. Funding for the
fix amounted to exactly nothing; Quill paid for the brass herself and waved off
a collection the dockworkers tried to take up. What she accepted instead was a
standing invitation to the Tuesday fish fry and, she noted dryly, "first dibs on
the next thing around here that quits."
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By midmorning a small crowd had formed at the pier head, watching the hands ease
toward the afternoon ebb. A deckhand checked the clock against his phone, grinned,
and put the phone away. For the first time in forty years, the harbor was keeping
its own time again — and, for once, keeping it right.
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