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Yay, let’s jump for text-wrap: pretty landing in Safari Technology Preview! But beware that it’s different from how it works in Chromium browsers. Read more about “Pretty” is in the eye of the beholder, opens in new tab
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There was once upon a time when native CSS lacked many essential features, leaving developers to come up with all sorts of ways to make CSS easier to write over the years. Read more about So, You Want to Give Up CSS Pre- and Post-Processors…, opens in new tab
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Tips and tricks on utilizing the CSS backdrop-filter property to style user interfaces. You’ll learn how to layer backdrop filters among multiple elements, and integrate them with other CSS graphical effects to create elaborate designs. Read more about Using CSS backdrop-filter for UI Effects, opens in new tab
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Custom cursors with CSS are great, but we can take things to the next level with JavaScript. Using JavaScript, we can transition between cursor states, place dynamic text within the cursor, apply complex animations, and apply filters. Read more about Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors, opens in new tab
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This CSS-Tricks update highlights significant progress in the Almanac, recent podcast appearances, a new CSS counters guide, and the addition of several new authors contributing valuable content. Read more about CSS-Tricks Chronicles XLIII, opens in new tab
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Most of the time, people showcase Tailwind’s @apply feature with one of Tailwind’s single-property utilities (which changes a single CSS declaration). When showcased this way, @apply doesn’t sound promising at all. So obviously, nobody wants to use it. Personally, I think Tailwind’s @apply feature is better than described. Read more about Tailwind’s @apply Feature is Better Than it Sounds, opens in new tab
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Deploying like an idiot comes down to a mismatch between the tools you use to deploy and the reward in complexity reduced versus complexity added. Read more about Feeling Like I Have No Release: A Journey Towards Sane Deployments, opens in new tab
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HTML 5 Readiness was a site that showed through a rainbow of colors the browser support for several web features. What about a new version? Read more about A New “Web” Readiness Report, opens in new tab
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Well, it turns out that SVG’s built-in animation features were never deprecated as planned. Sure, CSS and JavaScript are more than capable of carrying the load, but it’s good to know that SMIL is not dead in the water as previously thought, and is actually well-supported. Read more about SMIL on?, opens in new tab
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One thing we can do to help teams code consistently is provide type-checking so that all of the configurable options for a specific component are available while coding. Bryan demonstrates how he does this with TypeScript when working with Astro components. Read more about Crafting Strong DX With Astro Components and TypeScript, opens in new tab
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Interactive CSS animations with elements ricocheting off each other seem more plausible in 2025. While it’s unnecessary to implement Pong in CSS, the increasing flexibility and power of CSS reinforce Lee’s suspicion that one day it will be a lifestyle choice whether to achieve any given effect with scripting or CSS. Read more about Worlds Collide: Keyframe Collision Detection Using Style Queries, opens in new tab
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With visual regression testing, we can update a page, take screenshots before and after the fact, and compare the results for unintended changes. In this article, learn how to set up visual regression testing using Playwright. Read more about Automated Visual Regression Testing With Playwright, opens in new tab
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Having been tasked with creating a UI component for navigating the content of an online course, Daniel found himself neck-deep in a pool of new CSS features that he wound up using on the project. Read more about Case Study: Combining Cutting-Edge CSS Features Into a “Course Navigation” Component, opens in new tab
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There’s a bit of a blind spot when working with CSS logical properties concerning shorthands. Read more about Support Logical Shorthands in CSS, opens in new tab
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I’ve used border-image regularly. Yet, it remains one of the most underused CSS tools, and I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why. Is it possible that people steer clear of border-image because its syntax is awkward and unintuitive? Perhaps it’s because most explanations don’t solve the type of creative implementation problems that most people need to solve. Most likely, it’s both. Read more about Revisiting CSS border-image, opens in new tab
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I’ve seen a handful of recent posts talking about the utility of the :is() relational pseudo-selector. No need to delve […] Read more about Quick Reminder That :is() and :where() Are Basically the Same With One Key Difference, opens in new tab
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Going from the most basic ways to style lists directly in HTML to advanced customization techniques that are even capable of making things that aren’t lists look like lists. Read more about Styling Counters in CSS, opens in new tab
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Scott Jehl released a course called Web Components Demystified. This is my full set of notes from Scott’s course. You’ll still want to take the course on your own, and I encourage you to because Scott is an excellent teacher who makes all of this stuff extremely accessible, even to noobs like me. Read more about Web Components Demystified, opens in new tab
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With Astro, we can generate most of our site during our build, but have a small bit of server-side code that can handle search functionality using something like Fuse.js. In this demo, we’ll use Fuse to search through a set of personal “bookmarks” that are generated at build time, but return back proper results from a server call. Read more about Powering Search With Astro Actions and Fuse.js, opens in new tab
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The videos from Smashing Magazine’s recent event on accessibility were just posted the other day. I was invited to host the panel discussion with the speakers, including a couple of personal heroes of mine, Stéphanie Walter and Sarah Fossheim. But I was just as stoked to meet Kardo Ayoub who shared his deeply personal story as a designer with a major visual impairment. Read more about Smashing Meets Accessibility, opens in new tab
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In this article, you’ll learn how to make a full-on star rating component out of nothing but a single input element and vanilla CSS. Read more about A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 1), opens in new tab
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In this second article of a two-part series, Temani Afif demonstrates an alternative approach to creating the star rating component from the first article using experimental scroll-driven animations rather than using the border-image property. Read more about A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 2), opens in new tab
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This easily qualifies as a “gotcha” in CSS and is a good reminder that the cascade doesn’t know everything all at the same time. If a custom property is invalid, the cascade won’t ignore it, and it gets evaluated, which invalidates the declaration. Read more about Maybe don’t use custom properties in shorthand properties, opens in new tab
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Preethi demonstrates how to make a user interface to group selected items using CSS Grid using two different methods: the auto-fill keyword for stable layouts and the span keyword for flexible arrangements. Read more about Grouping Selection List Items Together With CSS Grid, opens in new tab
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Arguments?! Return values?! What’s crazier, you can use functions right now in Chrome Canary! So, after reading and playing around, here are my key insights on what you need to know about CSS Functions. Read more about Functions in CSS?!, opens in new tab
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The grain of truth was that even if you love your job, it can’t love you back. Yet what I’m hooked on isn’t one job, but the power of code and language. Read more about Applying the Web Dev Mindset to Dealing With Life Challenges, opens in new tab
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The View Transitions API is more a set of features than it is about any one particular thing. And it gets complex fast. But in this post, we’ll cover a couple ways to dip your toes into the waters without having to dive in head-first. Read more about Toe Dipping Into View Transitions, opens in new tab
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I know, super niche, but it could be any loop, really. The challenge is having multiple tooltips on the same page that make use of the Popover API for toggling goodness and CSS Anchor Positioning for attaching a tooltip to its respective anchor element. Read more about Working With Multiple CSS Anchors and Popovers Inside the WordPress Loop, opens in new tab
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My thesis for today’s article offers further reassurance that inline conditionals are probably not the harbinger of the end of civilization: I reckon we can achieve the same functionality right now with style queries, which are gaining pretty good browser support. Read more about The What If Machine: Bringing the “Iffy” Future of CSS into the Present, opens in new tab
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A while back on CSS-Tricks, we shared several ways to draw hearts, and the response was dreamy. Now, to show my love, I wanted to do something personal, something crafty, something with a mild amount of effort. Read more about Handwriting an SVG Heart, With Our Hearts, opens in new tab
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Adam’s such a mad scientist with CSS. He’s been putting together a series of “notebooks” that make it easy for […] Read more about Scroll Driven Animations Notebook, opens in new tab
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I enjoy organizing code and find cascade layers a fantastic way to organize code explicitly as the cascade looks at it. The neat part is, that as much as it helps with “top-level” organization, cascade layers can be nested, which allows us to author more precise styles based on the cascade and inheritance. Read more about Organizing Design System Component Patterns With CSS Cascade Layers, opens in new tab
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Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file’s parent application to open a copy of it by default, ensuring that the original file remains unedited. Read more about Make Any File a Template Using This Hidden macOS Tool, opens in new tab
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A little gem from Kevin Powell’s “HTML & CSS Tip of the Week” website, reminding us that using container queries opens up container query units for sizing things based on the size of the queried container. Read more about Container query units: cqi and cqb, opens in new tab
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The steps for how I took the Baseline Status web component and made it into a WordPress block that can be used on any page of post. Read more about Baseline Status in a WordPress Block, opens in new tab
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We’ve been able to get the length of the viewport in CSS since… checks notes… 2013! Surprisingly, that was more than a […] Read more about Typecasting and Viewport Transitions in CSS With tan(atan2()), opens in new tab
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Are partials the only thing keeping you writing CSS in Sass? With a little configuration, it’s possible to compile partial CSS files without a Sass dependency. Ryan Trimble has the details. Read more about Compiling CSS With Vite and Lightning CSS, opens in new tab
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Did you see the release notes for Chrome 133? It’s currently in beta, but the Chrome team has been publishing a slew of new articles with pretty incredible demos that are tough to ignore. I figured I’d round those up in one place. Read more about Chrome 133 Goodies, opens in new tab
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When using View Transitions you’ll notice the page becomes unresponsive to clicks while a View Transition is running. […] This […] Read more about Keeping the page interactive while a View Transition is running, opens in new tab
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The @view-transition at-rule has two descriptions. One is the commonly used navigation descriptor. The second is types, the lesser-known of the two, and one that probably envies how much attention navigation gets. But read on to learn why we need types and how it opens up new possibilities for custom view transitions when navigating between pages. Read more about What on Earth is the `types` Descriptor in View Transitions?, opens in new tab
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All of the things that the CSS Working Group would change if they had a time-traveling Delorean to go back and do things over. Read more about The Mistakes of CSS, opens in new tab
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After 20 years since Andy Clarke first published his book about Multi-Column Layout in CSS, he’s back to encourage a fresh look at CSS columns for enhanced readability and design flexibility. Read more about Revisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout, opens in new tab
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When it comes to positioning elements on a page, including text, there are many ways to go about it in CSS — the literal position property with corresponding inset-* properties, translate, margin, anchor() (limited browser support at the moment), and so forth. The offset property is another one that belongs in that list. Read more about Positioning Text Around Elements With CSS Offset, opens in new tab
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I was reading through Juan’s recent Almanac entry for the @counter-style at-rule and I’ll be darned if he didn’t uncover […] Read more about Some Things You Might Not Know About Custom Counter Styles, opens in new tab
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... Read more about Mastering Carousels with GSAP: From Basics to Advanced Animation, opens in new tab
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Chris wrote about “Likes” pages a long while back. The idea is rather simple: “Like” an item in your RSS […] Read more about Creating a “Starred” Feed, opens in new tab
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... Read more about Building an Interactive Image Grid with Three.js, opens in new tab
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Anchor positioning can be great for little interactive effects — as Temani Afif shows off with this clever idea for a menu hover. Read more about Fancy Menu Navigation Using Anchor Positioning, opens in new tab
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... Read more about Creating Generative Artwork with Three.js, opens in new tab
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Lee Meyer with a super clever idea using scroll-driven animations as an interaction to “like” or “dislike” something. Read more about Web-Slinger.css: Across the Swiper-Verse, opens in new tab
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Today, I want to look into one of those cases of impatient and how the community has waited for that feature, to be specific, two upcoming functions: sibling-count() and sibling-index(). Read more about How to Wait for the sibling-count() and sibling-index() Functions, opens in new tab
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I am still an AI skeptic. The biggest risk I foresee is that if your sole responsibility is to write code, your job is at risk. It’s not time to panic, but I do see a lot of value in evolving your soft skills. Read more about The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI, opens in new tab
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I wrote a post for Smashing Magazine that was published today about this thing that Chrome and Safari have called […] Read more about Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results, opens in new tab
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... Read more about Building a Playful Stop-Motion Crayon Cursor in p5.js, opens in new tab
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... Read more about Creating Stylized Water Effects with React Three Fiber, opens in new tab
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I’m more thankful this time around because, last year, I didn’t even get to write this post. But now that I’m back, writing this feels so, so, so good. There’s a lot more gusto going into my writing when I say: thank you so very much! Let’s tie a bow on this year and round up what happened around here in 2024. Read more about Thank You (2024 Edition), opens in new tab
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2024 has been one of the greatest years for CSS: cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, anchor positioning, animate to height: […] Read more about A CSS Wishlist for 2025, opens in new tab
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Today, I want to focus on what I’ll call the little triangle in the tooltip. It receives minimal attention but it amazes you by how many ways there are to make them. Let’s start with the simplest and make our way up to the not-so-simple. Read more about The Little Triangle in the Tooltip, opens in new tab
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When was the last time you developed a multi-step form? There’s so much to think about and so many moving pieces that need to be managed. But doing it by hand can be a good exercise and a great way to polish the basics. Fatuma Abdullaho walks you through her first multi-step form using vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Read more about How to Create Multi-Step Forms With Vanilla JavaScript and CSS, opens in new tab
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What else do we want or need CSS to do? Chris kept a CSS wishlist, going back as far as 2013 and following back up on it in 2019. We all have things we’d like to see CSS do and we always will no matter how many sparkly new features we get. We’ll round things up and put a list together — so let us know! Read more about What ELSE is on your CSS wishlist?, opens in new tab
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How much attention do you pay to the alignments of your subscripts and superscripts? Lorenz Wöehr has you covered with a recipe for fluid scaling. Read more about Fluid Superscripts and Subscripts, opens in new tab
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The CSSWG met to try and finally squash a debate that has been going on for five years: whether Masonry should be a part of Grid or a separate system. We’ve got coverage of both presentations for ya. Read more about CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-12-04): Just Use Grid vs. Display: Masonry, opens in new tab
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I had the pleasure of hosting a recent Smashing Magazine workshop on product design, subbing for Vitaly Friedman who usually […] Read more about Smashing Meets Product Design, opens in new tab
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As awesome as I think it is, CSS Anchor Positioning has a lot of quirks, some of which are the product of its novelty and others due to its unique way of working. Today, I want to bring you yet another Anchor Positioning quirk that has bugged me since I first saw it. Read more about Yet Another Anchor Positioning Quirk, opens in new tab
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Anselm Hannemann on the intersection between frameworks and learning the basics: Nowadays people can write great React and TypeScript code. […] Read more about Knowing CSS is Mastery to Frontend Development, opens in new tab
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Join the Chrome DevRel team and a skateboarding Chrome Dino on a journey through the latest CSS launched for Chrome […] Read more about CSS Wrapped 2024, opens in new tab
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We can anchor one element to another. We can also attach one element to multiple anchors. In this experiment, Ryan riffs on those ideas and comes up with a new way to transition between two anchors and the result is a practical use case that would normally require JavaScript. Read more about One of Those “Onboarding” UIs, With Anchor Positioning, opens in new tab
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Adam Argyle wraps up the search for a CSS logo, check out CSS’ new look! Read more about Follow Up: We Officially Have a CSS Logo!, opens in new tab
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What’s it look like to create a dashboard within the WordPress admin for analyzing Google Analytics data across 900 blogs across 25 multisite instances? It involves designing a user-friendly interface, leveraging the WordPress REST API, implementing a plugin for data retrieval, and addressing challenges like rate limits and authentication. Read more about WordPress Multi-Multisite: A Case Study, opens in new tab
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Most images require description for clarity, there are exceptions. This set of notes looks at different situations and contexts where alt text may not be needed and what to do in those cases. Read more about Alt Text: Not Always Needed, opens in new tab
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Web browsers are experimenting with two HTML attributes — technically, they’re called “invoker commands” — that are designed to invoke popovers, dialogs, and further down the line, all kinds of actions without writing JavaScript. Although, if you do reach for JavaScript, the new attributes come with some new events that we can listen for. Read more about Invoker Commands: Additional Ways to Work With Dialog, Popover… and More?, opens in new tab
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Donut scoping addresses the challenge of preventing parent styles from leaking to nested content. Originating from a 2011 concept by Nicole Sullivan, the issue has evolved, culminating in 2024’s @scope at-rule. This allows for more precise CSS styling, safeguarding content from unwanted inheritance while managing global CSS complexities. Read more about Solved by CSS: Donuts Scopes, opens in new tab
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Do you subscribe to Piccalilli? You should. If you’re reading that name for the first time, that would be none other than Andy Bell running the ship and he’s reimagined the site from the ground-up after coming out of hibernation this year. You’re likely familiar with Andy’s great writing here on CSS-Tricks. Read more about Complete CSS Course, opens in new tab
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You’ve played Flexbox Froggy before, right? Or maybe Grid Garden? They’re both absolute musts for learning the basics of modern CSS layout using Flexbox and CSS Grid. Thomas Park made those and he’s back with another game: Anchoreum. Read more about Anchoreum: A New Game for Learning Anchor Positioning, opens in new tab
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Another title from A Book Apart has been re-released for free. The latest? Tim Brown’s Flexible Typesetting. I may not be the utmost expert on typography and its best practices but I do remember reading this book (it’s still on the shelf next to me!) thinking maybe, just maybe, I might be able to hold a conversation about it with Robin when I finished it. Read more about Tim Brown: Flexible Typesetting is now yours, for free, opens in new tab
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Let’s spend some time looking at disclosures, the Dialog API, the Popover API, and more. We’ll look at the right time to use each one depending on your needs. Modal or non-modal? JavaScript or pure HTML/CSS? Not sure? Don’t worry, we’ll go into all that. Read more about The Different (and Modern) Ways to Toggle Content, opens in new tab
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The State of CSS 2024 survey wrapped up and the results are interesting, as always. Even though each section is […] Read more about Popping Comments With CSS Anchor Positioning and View-Driven Animations, opens in new tab
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We can apply the concept of fluid typography to almost anything. This way we can have a layout that fluidly changes with the size of its parent container. Few users will ever see the transition, but they will all appreciate the results. Honestly, they will. Read more about Fluid Everything Else, opens in new tab
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Can we recreate a JavaScript library for scrolling animations with a modern CSS approach using CSS Scroll-Driven Animations? Yes. Yes, we can. Read more about Web-Slinger.css: Like Wow.js But With CSS-y Scroll Animations, opens in new tab
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The results from this year’s survey are fairly fresh off the presses. We took a little time to sit with them and jot down some things we noticed and found interesting. Read more about State of CSS 2024 Results, opens in new tab
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What are tooltips, exactly? There’s two kinds and the one you use has implications on the user experience, as Zell illustrates in this explainer on best practices. Read more about Tooltip Best Practices, opens in new tab
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Dark mode interfaces have matured a lot in the past few years. We all know the “traditional” approach using media queries but in this article, Sara Joy demonstrates modern CSS features that make respecting user color scheme preferences pretty darn easy. Read more about Come to the light-dark() Side, opens in new tab
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A whole bunch of years ago, we posted on this idea here on CSS-Tricks. We figured it was time to […] Read more about Left Half and Right Half Layout – Many Different Ways, opens in new tab
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Terence Eden on using text-wrap: balance for more than headings: But the name is, I think, slightly misleading. It doesn’t only work […] Read more about You can use text-wrap: balance; on icons, opens in new tab
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The difference between Popovers (i.e., the popover attribute) and Dialogs (i.e., both the <dialog> element and the dialog accessible role) […] Read more about Clarifying the Relationship Between Popovers and Dialogs, opens in new tab
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There’s a lot of math behind fluid typography. CSS does make the math a lot easier these days, but even […] Read more about Clamp it! VS Code extension, opens in new tab
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Change can certainly be scary whenever a beloved, independent software library becomes a part of a larger organization. I’m feeling […] Read more about Combining forces, GSAP & Webflow!, opens in new tab
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I totally get the goal here: make CSS more modular and scalable in WordPress. Put all your global WordPress theme […] Read more about Mastering theme.json: You might not need CSS, opens in new tab
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One of the interesting (but annoying) things about CSS is the background of children’s elements can bleed out of the […] Read more about Solving Background Overflow With Inherited Border Radii, opens in new tab
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What’s in a word? Actions. In the realm of user interfaces, a word is construed as the telltale of a […] Read more about Close, Exit, Cancel: How to End User Interactions Well, opens in new tab
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CSS gradients have been so long that there’s no need to rehash what they are and how to use them. […] Read more about CSS Tricks That Use Only One Gradient, opens in new tab
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It’s always a gas when a good person doing good work gets a good deal. In this case, Jason’s viral […] Read more about WPGraphQL Becomes a Canonical Plugin: My Move to Automattic, opens in new tab
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More times than I can count, while writing, I get myself into random but interesting topics with little relation to […] Read more about 2024: More CSS At-Rules Than the Past Decade Combined, opens in new tab
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There is an amazing community effort happening in search of a new logo for CSS. I was a bit skeptical […] Read more about Searching for a New CSS Logo, opens in new tab
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I sat down with Heydon Pickering in the most recent episode of the Smashing Hour. Full transparency: I was nervous […] Read more about Smashing Hour With Heydon Pickering, opens in new tab
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The @supports at-rule has been extended several times since its initial release. Once only capable of checking support for property/value […] Read more about Recipes for Detecting Support for CSS At-Rules, opens in new tab
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Learn about CSS Anchor Positioning, including its syntax, properties, how it is used to position one element next to another, and even how it’s used to resize elements relative to other elements. Read more about CSS Anchor Positioning Guide, opens in new tab
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Kate Kaplan hits on something over at Nielsen Norman Group’s blog that’s been bugging me: The challenge with this icon […] Read more about The Proliferation and Problem of the ✨ Sparkles ✨ Icon, opens in new tab
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An approach for creating masonry layouts in vanilla CSS is one of those “holy grail” aspirations. I actually tend to […] Read more about CSS Masonry & CSS Grid, opens in new tab
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The creator of CSS has said he originally envisaged CSS as the main web technology to control behavior on web pages, with […] Read more about Slide Through Unlimited Dimensions With CSS Scroll Timelines, opens in new tab
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Miriam Suzanne’s in the middle of a redesign of her personal website. It began in August 2022. She’s made an […] Read more about Aggregating my distributed self, opens in new tab
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A new tool from Eric Meyer, Brian Kardell, and Stephanie Stimac backed with Igalia’s support. Brian announced it on his […] Read more about BCD Watch, opens in new tab
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Many of you — perhaps most of you — have been sitting on the sidelines while WordPress and WP Engine […] Read more about Catching Up on the WordPress 🚫 WP Engine Sitch, opens in new tab
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Getting right to it: the CSS-Tricks Almanac got a big refresh this week! I’m guessing you’re already familiar with this […] Read more about Re-Working the CSS Almanac, opens in new tab
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I’m working on a refresh of my personal website, what I’m calling the HD remaster. Well, I wouldn’t call it […] Read more about Clever Polypane Debugging Features I’m Loving, opens in new tab
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I’m a big Lynn Fisher fan. You probably are, too, if you’re reading this. Or maybe you’re reading her name […] Read more about Smashing Hour With Lynn Fisher, opens in new tab
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Only Chris, right? You’ll want to view this in a Chromium browser: This is exactly the sort of thing I […] Read more about Multiple Anchors, opens in new tab
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The text-box-trim and text-box-edge properties in CSS enable developers to trim specifiable amounts of the whitespace that appear above the first formatted line […] Read more about Two CSS Properties for Trimming Text Box Whitespace, opens in new tab
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I collect a bunch of links in a bookmarks folder. These are things I fully intend to read, and I […] Read more about What’s Old is New, opens in new tab
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I am thrilled to say, that from this week onwards, the CSS-tricks Almanac has an entry for each property, function, […] Read more about Anchor Positioning Quirks, opens in new tab
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HTML forms come with built-in ways to validate form inputs and other controls against predefined rules such as making an […] Read more about Two Ways to Create Custom Translated Messaging for HTML Forms, opens in new tab
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Jim hit a snag while working on a form. Placing labels next to inputs is trivial with flexbox, sure, but […] Read more about Sanding UI, opens in new tab
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Quite a fun article I worked on with Philip Braunen. Do you know that little bit of elasticity you get […] Read more about Sticky Headers And Full-Height Elements: A Tricky Combination, opens in new tab
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Seems like we’re always talking about clipping text around here. All it takes is a little browsing to spot a […] Read more about Another Stab at Truncated Text, opens in new tab
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View Transitions are one of the most awesome features CSS has shipped in recent times. Its title is self-explanatory: transitions […] Read more about CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-08-21), opens in new tab
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I sure do love little reminders about HTML semantics, particularly semantics that are tougher to commit to memory. Scott has […] Read more about Paragraphs, opens in new tab
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Didya see that Tumblr is getting a WordPress makeover? And it’s not a trivial move: This won’t be easy. Tumblr […] Read more about Shipping Tumblr and WordPress, opens in new tab
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I created a little library at work to make those “skeleton screens” that I’m not sure anyone likes. […] We […] Read more about Introducing <skelly-wc>, opens in new tab
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I think it’s worth listening to anything Sara Soueidan has to say. That’s especially true if she’s speaking at an […] Read more about The “Other” C in CSS, opens in new tab
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Eric gifting us with his research on all the various things that anchors (not links) do when they are in […] Read more about Basic keyboard shortcut support for focused links, opens in new tab
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A gem from Chris Ferdinandi that details how to use custom events to hook into Web Components. More importantly, Chris […] Read more about Callbacks on Web Components?, opens in new tab
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A client asked if we could mimic the “rubber band” scrolling behavior on many mobile devices. I’m sure you know […] Read more about Elastic Overflow Scrolling, opens in new tab
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You ever find yourself in bumper-to-bumper traffic? I did this morning on the way to work (read: whatever cafe I […] Read more about The Intersection of Speed and Proximity, opens in new tab
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A couple of weeks ago I was super excited about publishing my first CSS-Tricks post: “Letter Spacing is Broken. Forget […] Read more about RTL Styling 101, opens in new tab
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Yes, yes. Functionally, they are different. But heck if I didn’t know about the wacky thresholds until Jens Oliver Meiert […] Read more about How are the `colspan` and `rowspan` attributes different?, opens in new tab
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Modern CSS keeps giving us a lot of new, easier ways to solve old problems, but often the new features […] Read more about “Smart” Layouts With Container Queries, opens in new tab
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“This isn’t a website. Or even a blog. It’s a conversation.” That’s the idea! Jay Hoffman and I’ve been chatting […] Read more about Dialogues Blog, opens in new tab
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You might recall that Alvaro suggests bumping up font-size to 1.25rem from the default user agent size of 16px. Sebastian […] Read more about font-size Limbo, opens in new tab
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Mental health is always tough to talk about, especially in an industry that, to me, often rewards ego over vulnerability. […] Read more about Mental Health in Tech Podcast Interview, opens in new tab
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A new explainer for a new HTML attribute to handle handwritten inputs. Like this: The primary use case is for […] Read more about HTML Attribute to Allow/Disallow Handwriting Input, opens in new tab
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Ever search for CSS info and run into some article — perhaps even one or a dozen on this site […] Read more about It’s Time To Talk About “CSS5”, opens in new tab
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Remember these? Chris would write a post now and then to chronicle things happening around the ol’ CSS-Tricks site. It’s […] Read more about CSS Chronicles XLII, opens in new tab
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Christian Heilmann gave this talk at Typo3 Developer Days. I’m linking it up because it strikes an already stricken nerve […] Read more about Christian Heilmann: Let’s make a simpler, more accessible web, opens in new tab
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Christian Heilmann gave this talk at Typo3 Developer Days. I’m linking it up because it strikes an already stricken nerve […] Read more about Let’s make a simpler, more accessible web, opens in new tab
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It was a few years ago during the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo 2020 that I made a demo of animated […] Read more about CSS Olympic Rings, opens in new tab
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Heydon on the virtues of hyperlinking hypertext in an anchor element: Sometimes, the <a> is referred to as a hyperlink, or simply […] Read more about (Hyper) Links About (Hyper) Links, opens in new tab
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I have to thank Jeremy Keith and his wonderfully insightful article from late last year that introduced me to the […] Read more about HTML Web Components Make Progressive Enhancement and CSS Encapsulation Easier!, opens in new tab
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It’s been a few months out since A Book Apart closed shop. I’m sad about it, of course. You probably […] Read more about Where You Can Still Get A Book Apart Titles, opens in new tab
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Most days, I’m writing vanilla CSS. Thanks to CSS variables and nesting, I have fewer reasons to reach for Sass […] Read more about CSS Functions and Mixins Module Notes, opens in new tab
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Smashing Magazine invited me to sit down for a one-on-one with “Uncle” Dave Rupert to discuss web components, yes, but […] Read more about Smashing Hour With Dave Rupert, opens in new tab
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This post came up following a conversation I had with Emilio Cobos — a senior developer at Mozilla and member […] Read more about Letter Spacing is Broken and There’s Nothing We Can Do About It… Maybe, opens in new tab
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From June 11–13, the CSS Working Group (CSSWG) held its second face-to-face meeting of the year in Coruña, Spain, with […] Read more about CSS Stuff I’m Excited After the Last CSSWG Meeting, opens in new tab
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A complete guide covering all of the various methods we have to select elements in CSS and how to use them for applying styles. Read more about CSS Selectors, opens in new tab
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Oh, hey there! It’s been a hot minute, hasn’t it? Thought I’d pop in and say hello while we get to know the Popover API a bit. Read more about Poppin’ In, opens in new tab
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The CSS ::view-transition-image-old pseudo-element is part of the View Transitions API that lets us select the “before” snapshot in a view transition. Read more about ::view-transition-image-old, opens in new tab
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The CSS ::view-transition-image-new pseudo-element is part of the View Transitions API that lets us select the “new” snapshot that is transitioned to in a view transition. Read more about ::view-transition-image-new, opens in new tab
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The ::view-transition-group pseudo-element selects one or more containers that group the pieces of an individual view transition.See that transition-name identifier in the pseudo-element’s argument? That’s how we can select a particular view transition. View … Read more about ::view-transition-group, opens in new tab
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The CSS :popover-open pseudo-class is part of the Popover API that selects a popover element and styles the popover when it is in its “open” state. Read more about :popover-open, opens in new tab
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The main idea of CSS Container Queries is to register an element as a “container” and apply styles to other elements when the container element meets certain conditions. Read more about CSS Container Queries, opens in new tab
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The CSS ::view-transition pseudo-element is the top-level — or “root” — containing all animated transitions defined as CSS view transitions on the page. Read more about ::view-transition, opens in new tab
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The CSS ::details-content pseudo-element provides a way to select and apply styles to the inner parts of a <details> element without leaking styles to the <summary>.We say … Read more about ::details-content, opens in new tab
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The :defined pseudo-class selector is part of CSS Selectors Level 4 specification allowing you to target custom elements created with the Web Components API and defined in JavaScript. Also, this selector matches any standard element built into the browser.… Read more about :defined, opens in new tab
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A comprehensive guide covering nine types of lengths that CSS uses to size elements in terms of dimensions, space, time, and even sound. Read more about CSS Length Units, opens in new tab
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Declaring the CSS anchor-name property on an element registers it as an “anchor” that we can use to position as a reference for positioning other elements.The property is one part of CSS Anchor Positioning, … Read more about anchor-name, opens in new tab
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The CSS view-timeline-name property allows us to identify and reference an element we want to animate based on its scroll position when it enters the visible area (i.e., scrollport) of a scroll container (also called the “source”). Read more about view-timeline-name, opens in new tab
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The CSS view-transition-name property uniquely identifies an element that can be used in a view transition.We give the element a name (i.e., <custom-ident) that we reference or set the property to none to … Read more about view-transition-name, opens in new tab
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The CSS container property is a shorthand that combines the container-name and container-type properties into a single declaration.The container property is a … Read more about container, opens in new tab
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Adding an s makes the selector case-sensitive and i makes it case-insensitive. Read more about Case-Sensitive Selectors, opens in new tab
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The CSS container-name property is used to register an element as a container that applies styles to other elements based on the container’s size and styles. Read more about container-name, opens in new tab
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The CSS container-type property is part of the Container Queries feature used to register an element as a container that can apply styles to other elements when it meets certain conditions. Read more about container-type, opens in new tab
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This is the 3rd post in a small series we are doing on form accessibility. If you missed the 2nd post, check out Managing User Focus with :focus-visible. In this post we are going to look at using a … Read more about Demystifying Screen Readers: Accessible Forms & Best Practices, opens in new tab
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This is going to be the 2nd post in a small series we are doing on form accessibility. If you missed the first post, check out Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes. In this post we are going to look … Read more about Managing User Focus with :focus-visible, opens in new tab
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Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post we are going to explore the use of :has() in your next web project. :has() is relatively newish but has gained popularity in the front end community by delivering control … Read more about The Power of :has() in CSS, opens in new tab
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Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post, I am going to take you through creating a simple contact form using semantic HTML and an awesome CSS pseudo class known as :focus-within. The :focus-within class allows for … Read more about Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes, opens in new tab
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That goes right in the <head of your HTML document and it’s the most basic of basic view transitions. The effect is a cross-fade between two pages.… Read more about Basic View Transition, opens in new tab
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The more “correct” approach is to set list-style to none but that has a latent consequence of Safari no longer recognizing the element as a proper list, semantically speaking. We could fix … Read more about Remove List Markers Without Affecting Semantics, opens in new tab
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... Read more about Recreating the Mac Mini Effect Step-by-Step in Rive, opens in new tab
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... Read more about How to Create a PS1-Inspired Jitter Shader with React-Three-Fiber, opens in new tab
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These things called passkeys sure are making the rounds these days. They were a main attraction at W3C TPAC 2022, gained support in Safari 16, are finding their way into macOS and iOS, and are slated to … Read more about Passkeys: What the Heck and Why?, opens in new tab
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I spend a lot of time in DevTools, and I’m sure you do too. Sometimes I even bounce between them, especially when I’m debugging cross-browser issues. DevTools is a lot like browsers themselves — not all of the features in … Read more about Some Cross-Browser DevTools Features You Might Not Know, opens in new tab
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Doing a quick search here on CSS-Tricks shows just how many different ways there are to approach calendars. Some show how CSS Grid can create the layout efficiently. Some attempt to bring actual data into the mix. Some … Read more about Making Calendars With Accessibility and Internationalization in Mind, opens in new tab
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You know what it’s like to pick up a new language or framework. Sometimes there’s great documentation to help you find your way through it. But even the best documentation doesn’t cover absolutely everything. And when you work with something … Read more about 5 Mistakes I Made When Starting My First React Project, opens in new tab
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CSS trigonometry functions are here! Well, they are if you’re using the latest versions of Firefox and Safari, that is. Having this sort of mathematical power in CSS opens up a whole bunch of possibilities. In this tutorial, I thought … Read more about Creating a Clock with the New CSS sin() and cos() Trigonometry Functions, opens in new tab
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Fonts are a defining characteristic of the design of any site. That includes WordPress themes, where it’s common for theme developers to integrate a service like Google Fonts into the WordPress Customizer settings for a “classic” PHP-based theme. That hasn’t … Read more about Managing Fonts in WordPress Block Themes, opens in new tab
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I was reading “Creative List Styling” on Google’s web.dev blog and noticed something odd in one of the code examples in the ::marker section of the article. The built-in list markers are bullets, ordinal numbers, and letters. The ::marker pseudo-element … Read more about Everything You Need to Know About the Gap After the List Marker, opens in new tab
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We’re fans of Custom Elements around here. Their design makes them particularly amenable to lazy loading, which can be a boon for performance.Inspired by a colleague’s experiments, I recently set about writing a simple auto-loader: Whenever a custom … Read more about An Approach to Lazy Loading Custom Elements, opens in new tab
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It’s a question I hear asked quite often: Is it possible to create shadows from gradients instead of solid colors? There is no specific CSS property that does this (believe me, I’ve looked) and any blog post you find about … Read more about Different Ways to Get CSS Gradient Shadows, opens in new tab
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We often think of background images as texture or something that provides contrast for legible content — in other words, not really content. If it was content, you’d probably reach for an <img> anyway, accessibility and whatnot.But there are … Read more about Moving Backgrounds, opens in new tab
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Every now and then, a one blog post is published and it spurs a reaction or response in others that are, in turn, published as blogs posts, and a theme starts to emerge. That’s what happened this past week and … Read more about Healthcare, Selling Lemons, and the Price of Developer Experience, opens in new tab
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Geez, leave it to Patrick Brosset to talk CSS performance in the most approachable and practical way possible. Not that CSS is always what’s gunking up the speed, or even the lowest hanging fruit when it comes to improving … Read more about The truth about CSS selector performance, opens in new tab
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I used to have this boss who loved, loved, loved, loved to emphasize words. This was way back before we used a WYSIWYG editors and I’d have to handcode that crap. Read more about The Double Emphasis Thing, opens in new tab
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My previous post was a broad overview of SvelteKit where we saw what a great tool it is for web development. This post will fork off what we did there and dive into every developer’s favorite topic: caching. So, … Read more about Caching Data in SvelteKit, opens in new tab
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The CSS border-image-outset property sets distance between an element’s border-image area and how far it goes beyond the element’s border-box. Read more about border-image-outset, opens in new tab
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You know how we have “dark mode” and “light mode” these days? Browsers also have “dark” and “light” color schemes baked into their default styles. The CSS color-scheme property lets the browser use (or choose) to display certain elements with … Read more about color-scheme, opens in new tab
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Tucked down somewhere in the Safari Technology Preview 161 release notes is a seemingly innocous line about support for a new HTML element and attribute:Added support for <model src> and honor <source type> attributes ([email protected])Anytime I … Read more about AR, VR, and a Model for 3D in HTML, opens in new tab
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... Read more about Building a WebGL Carousel with React Three Fiber and GSAP, opens in new tab
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... Read more about Crafting a Dice Roller with Three.js and Cannon-es, opens in new tab
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I’m pleased to shine a light on the fact that the CSS grid-template-rows and grid-template-columns properties are now animatable in all major web browsers! Well, CSS Grid has technically supported animations for a long time, as it’s baked right … Read more about Animating CSS Grid (How To + Examples), opens in new tab
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SvelteKit is the latest of what I’d call next-gen application frameworks. It, of course, scaffolds an application for you, with the file-based routing, deployment, and server-side rendering that Next has done forever. But SvelteKit also supports nested layouts, server mutations … Read more about Getting Started With SvelteKit, opens in new tab
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The :has() pseudo-class is, hands-down, my favorite new CSS feature. I know it is for many of you as well, at least those of you who took the State of CSS survey. The ability to write selectors upside down … Read more about More Real-World Uses for :has(), opens in new tab
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While I am not a regular Chrome extension programmer, I have certainly coded enough extensions and have a wide enough web development portfolio to know my way around the task. However, just recently, I had a client reject one of … Read more about How to Transition to Manifest V3 for Chrome Extensions, opens in new tab
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If you’ve ever worked on sites with lots of long-form text — especially CMS sites where people can enter screeds of text in a WYSIWYG editor — you’ve likely had to write CSS to manage the vertical spacing between different … Read more about Solved With :has(): Vertical Spacing in Long-Form Text, opens in new tab
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... Read more about Recreating the Gradient Mask Hover Effect from Evervault, opens in new tab
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Someone recently asked me how I approach debugging inline SVGs. Because it is part of the DOM, we can inspect any inline SVG in any browser DevTools. And because of that, we have the ability to scope things out and … Read more about 6 Common SVG Fails (and How to Fix Them), opens in new tab
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The CSS border-image-width property is used to determine the width of the border’s image file, as provided by the CSS border-image-source property. Read more about border-image-width, opens in new tab
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A little thing happened on the way to publishing the CSS :has() selector to the ol’ Almanac. I had originally described :has() as a “forgiving” selector, the idea being that anything in its argument is evaluated, even if one or … Read more about :has is an unforgiving selector, opens in new tab
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CSS Nesting is making the rounds yet again. Remember earlier this year when Adam and Miriam put three syntax options up for a vote? Those results were tallied and it wasn’t even even close.Now there’s another chance … Read more about Help choose the syntax for CSS Nesting, opens in new tab
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The CSS border-image-slice tells the browser where to “slice” an image being used to create the pieces of an element’s borders.The border-image-slice property is defined in … Read more about border-image-slice, opens in new tab
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The CSS :has() pseudo-class selects elements that contain other elements that match the selector passed into its arguments. It’s often referred to as “the parent selector” because of its ability to select a parent element based on the child elements … Read more about :has(), opens in new tab
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Being able to quickly spin up a WordPress instance has been the strength of WordPress ever since its famous “five-minute install”. Upload a few files, configure a few settings, and you’re off.The friction of uploading files has gotten … Read more about WordPress Playground: Running WordPress in the Browser, opens in new tab
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In this series, we’ve been making image sliders with nothing but HTML and CSS. The idea is that we can use the same markup but different CSS to get wildly different results, no matter how many images we toss … Read more about CSS Infinite 3D Sliders, opens in new tab
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The CSS Working Group gave that a thumbs-up a couple weeks ago. The super-duper conceptual proposal being that we can animate or transition from, say, display: block to display: none.It’s a bit of a brain-twister to reason … Read more about So, you’d like to animate the display property, opens in new tab
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Suzy Naschansky from the HTMHell Advent Calendar:See that aria-labelledby attribute? It chains two IDs from the … Read more about Unchain My Inaccessibly-Labelled Heart, opens in new tab
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Every so often, I find that the links I save to read later fall into natural groups or patterns that reveal common threads of interest. The past couple of weeks have produced a lot of thoughts about ChatGPT, an … Read more about Some Links on AI-Related Stuff, opens in new tab
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CSS Container Queries are still gaining traction and many of us are getting our hands wet with them, even if it’s for little experiments or whatnot. They’ve got great, but not quite full, browser support — enough to justify using … Read more about A Few Times Container Size Queries Would Have Helped Me Out, opens in new tab
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We’ve got ourselves a real holiday treat! Join host Alex Trost from the Frontend Horse community for the Holiday Snowtacular 2022 this Friday, December 16.There’s a lineup of 12 awesome speakers — including Chris Coyier, Cassidy Williams, Kevin … Read more about Holiday Snowtacular 2022, opens in new tab
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Sara Soueidan with everything you need, from what screen reading options are out there all the way to setting up virtual machines for them, installing them, and confguring keyboard options. It’s truly a one-stop reference that pulls together disparate … Read more about Setting up a screen reader testing environment on your computer, opens in new tab
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How often to do you reach for the CSS background-size property? If you’re like me — and probably lots of other front-end folks — then it’s usually when you background-size: cover an image to fill the space of an entire … Read more about Animated Background Stripes That Transition on Hover, opens in new tab
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Nothing but ear-to-ear smiles as I was watching this video from @quayjn on YouTube. (No actual name in the byline, though I think it’s Brian Katz if my paper trail is correct).The best is this Pen you can … Read more about CSS is OK, I guess., opens in new tab
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The CSS border-image-repeat property controls how a border image is repeated to fill the outer edges of an element. It can also control the center of an element’s background when border-image-slice is set to fill.… Read more about border-image-repeat, opens in new tab
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For years, a small pedantry war has been raging in our address bars. In one corner are brands like Google, Instagram, and Facebook. This group has chosen to redirect example.com to www.example.com. In the opposite corner: … Read more about Does WWW still belong in URLs?, opens in new tab
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Image sliders (also called carousels) are everywhere. There are a lot of CSS tricks to create the common slider where the images slide from left to right (or the opposite). It’s the same deal with the many JavaScript libraries out … Read more about CSS Infinite and Circular Rotating Image Slider, opens in new tab
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I wrote up some early thoughts on container style queries a little while back. It’s still early days. They’re already defined in the CSS Containment Module Level 1 specification (currently in Editor’s Draft status) but there’s still a couple of … Read more about Digging Deeper Into Container Style Queries, opens in new tab
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One of the main goals of the WordPress Site Editor (and, yes, that is now the “official” name) is to move basic block styling from CSS to structured JSON. JSON files are machine-readable, which makes it consumable by … Read more about Using The New Constrained Layout In WordPress Block Themes, opens in new tab
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I’m a sucker for anything about front-end job titles.Anselm Hannemann:CSS evolved and we’re beyond the point where everyone can just do it as a side interest. We all can learn it and build amazing stuff with it, Read more about More Than “Slapping Paint on a Website”, opens in new tab
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HTML lists are boring. They don’t do much, so we don’t really think about them despite how widely used they are. And we’re still able to do the same things we’ve always done to customize them, like removing markers, reversing … Read more about Newer Things to Know About Good Ol’ HTML Lists, opens in new tab
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Well, color me this! I was griping to myself last night about just how gosh dang hard it is to read text messages in Apple Messages. You know, not the blue bubbles that you get when messaging other iPhone users. … Read more about Apple Messages & Color Contrast, opens in new tab
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Sacha Greif openly wondered whether CSS has gotten to be, you know, too big. With all the goodies that’ve shipped in browsers the past couple of years — container queries! relative color syntax! cascade layers! logical properties… Read more about What CSS Do You Absolutely Have to Know in 2022?, opens in new tab
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The way we write CSS for WordPress themes is in the midst of sweeping changes. I recently shared a technique for adding fluid type support in WordPress by way of theme.json, a new file that WordPress has been pushing … Read more about Managing CSS Styles in a WordPress Block Theme, opens in new tab
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The border-image-source CSS property creates borders around elements using an image file or CSS gradient as the source. Read more about border-image-source, opens in new tab
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“A change to overflow on replaced elements in CSS”:From Chrome 108, the following replaced elements respect the overflow property: img, video and canvas. In earlier versions of Chrome, this property was ignored on these elements.This Read more about A Couple Changes Coming in Chrome 108, opens in new tab
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Web Sockets, Web Workers, Service Workers… these are terms you may have read or overheard. Maybe not all of them, but likely at least one of them. And even if you have a good handle on front-end development, there’s a … Read more about The Difference Between Web Sockets, Web Workers, and Service Workers, opens in new tab
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Every once in a while, the blogging zeitgiest seems to coalesce around a certain topic and it’s like the saved articles in my bookmarks folder are having a conversation. The conversation sitting in there now is all about CSS Gradients … Read more about Some Links About CSS Gradients, opens in new tab
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This is a continuation of my last article about “Rendering External API Data in WordPress Blocks on the Front End”. In that last one, we learned how to take an external API and integrate it with a block that … Read more about Rendering External API Data in WordPress Blocks on the Back End, opens in new tab
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We’ve spent the last two articles in this three-part series playing with gradients to make really neat image decorations using nothing but the <img> element. In this third and final piece, we are going to explore more techniques using the … Read more about Fancy Image Decorations: Outlines and Complex Animations, opens in new tab
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Simon Goellner (@simeydotme)’s collection of Holographic Trading Cards have captured our attention.Under the hood there is a suite of filter(), background-blend-mode(), mix-blend-mode(), and clip-path() combinations that have been painstakingly tweaked to reach the desired effect. I … Read more about Holographic Trading Card Effect, opens in new tab
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The grid-row CSS property is a shorthand that specifies the row grid lines where a grid item starts and ends in a grid layout, and does it in a single declaration. Read more about grid-row, opens in new tab
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The CSS :has() pseudo class is rolling out in many browsers with Chrome and Safari already fully supporting it. It’s often referred to it as “the parent selector” — as in, we can select style a parent element from a … Read more about Creating Animated, Clickable Cards With the :has() Relational Pseudo Class, opens in new tab
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As front-end developers, we’ve wished for a lot of things over the years — ways to center things in CSS, encapsulate styles, set an element’s aspect ratio, get finer-grained control over our colors, select an element based on its children’s … Read more about Is There Too Much CSS Now?, opens in new tab
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Welcome to Part 2 of this three-part series! We are still decorating images without any extra elements and pseudo-elements. I hope you already took the time to digest Part 1 because we will continue working with a lot of gradients … Read more about Fancy Image Decorations: Masks and Advanced Hover Effects, opens in new tab
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Before I career jumped into development, I did a bunch of motion graphics work in After Effects. But even with that background, I still found animating on the web pretty baffling.Video graphics are designed within a specific ratio and … Read more about Responsive Animations for Every Screen Size and Device, opens in new tab
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I love it when there’s a sense of synergy in the blogosphere. First, I caught Nick Heer’s coverage of Meta ending support for Instant Articles, its proprietary format for stripped-down performant news articles. He also compares it to the similar … Read more about Instant Articles, Proprietary Syndication, and a Web Built on User Fidelity Preferences, opens in new tab
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When you put something — say a regular sheet of paper — in a manilla folder, a part of that thing might peek out of the folder a little bit. The same sort of thing with a wallet and credit … Read more about How to Make a Folder “Slit” Effect With CSS, opens in new tab
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By way of a post by Manuel Matuzović which is by way of a demo by Temani Afif.You’d be doing yourself a favor to read Manuel’s breakdown of … Read more about Manuel Matuzovic: max() Trickery, opens in new tab
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The grid-column CSS property is a shorthand that specifies the column grid lines where a grid item starts and ends in a grid layout in one declaration. Read more about grid-column, opens in new tab
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Well, hey, welcome back to Behind the CSScenes! These posts are like little check-ins we’re doing each month to give you a peek behind what we’re doing here at CSS-Tricks, as well as a chance for us to pause … Read more about Behind the CSScenes, October 2022, opens in new tab
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As the title says, we are going to decorate images! There’s a bunch of other articles out there that talk about this, but what we’re covering here is quite a bit different because it’s more of a challenge. The challenge? … Read more about Fancy Image Decorations: Single Element Magic, opens in new tab
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An Event Apart 2022 Denver wrapped up yesterday. And while I was unable to make it to all three days this time, I did catch yesterday’s action — and it was awesome. I’m not very social or outgoing, but … Read more about Some Things I Took Away From An Event Apart 2022 in Denver, opens in new tab
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Oftentimes in the past, I needed to figure out how to add styles to all elements inside the container but not the hovered one. Read more about A Pure CSS Gallery Focus Effect with :not, opens in new tab
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Spammers are a huge deal nowadays. If you want to share your contact information without getting overwhelmed by spam email you need a solution. I run into this problem a few months ago. While I was researching how to solve … Read more about How to Safely Share Your Email Address on a Website, opens in new tab
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In my previous post we looked at Shoelace, which is a component library with a full suite of UX components that are beautiful, accessible, and — perhaps unexpectedly — built with Web Components. This means they can be used … Read more about Using Web Components With Next (or Any SSR Framework), opens in new tab
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The State of CSS survey recently opened up. Last year, the survey confirmed everyone’s assumptions that TailwindCSS is super popular and CSS variables are mainstream. It also codified what many of us want from CSS, from Container Queries to … Read more about State of CSS 2022 Survey Now Open, opens in new tab
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This is a post about Shoelace, a component library by Cory LaViska, but with a twist. It defines all your standard UX components: tabs, modals, accordions, auto-completes, and much, much more. They look beautiful out of the … Read more about Introducing Shoelace, a Framework-Independent Component-Based UX Library, opens in new tab
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Let’s acknowledge that developing for WordPress is weird right now. Whether you’re new to WordPress or have worked with it for eons, the introduction of “Full-Site Editing” (FSE) features, including the Block Editor (WordPress 5.0) and the Site Editor (WordPress … Read more about Getting Started With WordPress Block Development, opens in new tab
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So you want an auto-playing looping video without sound? In popular vernacular this is the very meaning of the word GIF. The word has stuck around but the image format itself is ancient and obsolete. Twitter, for example, has … Read more about GIFs Without the .gif: The Most Performant Image and Video Options Right Now, opens in new tab
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Did you know that DOM elements with IDs are accessible in JavaScript as global variables? It’s one of those things that’s been around, like, forever but I’m really digging into it for the first time.If this is the first … Read more about Named Element IDs Can Be Referenced as JavaScript Globals, opens in new tab
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I like that sorta effect where an image almost looks like it’s an oil painting or an illustration made with a thick, runny ink fountain pen. I got the idea when Scott Vandehey shared his “halftone filter” effect on the … Read more about Image Illustration Filter, opens in new tab
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The :auto-fill pseudo-class in CSS allows us to style <input> elements that contain content auto-filled by the browser.Take a new user registration form as an example. Have you ever clicked or tapped into a field and seen a dropdown … Read more about :autofill, opens in new tab
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The wave is probably one of the most difficult shapes to make in CSS. We always try to approximate it with properties like border-radius and lots of magic numbers until we get something that feels kinda close. And that’s before … Read more about How to Create Wavy Shapes & Patterns in CSS, opens in new tab
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If we browse the WordPress theme directory, a majority of themes showcase cover images. It is a feature in popular demand. The cover page trend is true even in the block theme directory screenshots as well.Let’s consider the … Read more about How To Customize WordPress Block Theme Cover Templates with Dynamic Post Feature Images, opens in new tab
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The video of Chris Coyier’s talk at CascadiaJS 2022 is now available. It’s his first in-person talk in more than two years, so it’s great to see our good friend back on stage slinging gems on what makes the web … Read more about The Web is Good Now, opens in new tab
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SVG is the best format for icons on a website, there is no doubt about that. It allows you to have sharp icons no matter the screen pixel density, you can change the styles of the SVG on hover … Read more about How I Made an Icon System Out of CSS Custom Properties, opens in new tab
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The grid-row-start CSS property is part of the CSS Grid Layout specification, used to indicate the row grid line where a grid item starts in a grid layout. This property — among other line-based placement grid properties — controls … Read more about grid-row-start, opens in new tab
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The latest spec:A style rule is a qualified rule that associates a selector list with a list of property declarations and possibly a list of nested rules. They are also called rule sets in CSS2.Louis Lazaris:As the above quote from W3C indicates, it seems Read more about CSS Rules vs. CSS Rulesets, opens in new tab
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The grid-row-end CSS property is part of the CSS Grid Layout specification, used to indicate the row grid line where a grid item ends in a grid layout. This property — among other line-based placement grid properties — controls … Read more about grid-row-end, opens in new tab
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On one hand, creating simple checkered backgrounds with CSS is easy. On the other hand, though, unless we are one of the CSS-gradient-ninjas, we are kind of stuck with basic patterns.At least that’s what I thought while staring at … Read more about CSS Checkerboard Background… But With Rounded Corners and Hover Styles, opens in new tab
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Gradients have been a part of the CSS spectrum for quite some time now. We see a lot of radial and linear gradients in a lot of projects, but there is one type of gradient that seems to be a … Read more about Making a Real-Time Clock With a Conic Gradient Face, opens in new tab
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A lot of chatter around the ol’ <details> and <summary> elements lately! I saw Lea Verou recently tweet an observation about the element’s display behavior and that sorta splintered into more observations and usage notes from folks, including a revived … Read more about More Details on `details`, opens in new tab
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Using CSS, it’s possible to prevent users from selecting text within an element using user-select: none. Now, it’s understandable why doing so might be considered “controversial”. I mean, should we be disabling standard user behaviors? Generally speaking, no, we … Read more about When is it OK to Disable Text Selection?, opens in new tab
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Whew boy, Safari 16 is officially out in the wild and it packs in a bunch of features, some new and exciting (Subgrid! Container Queries! Font Palettes!) and others we’ve been waiting on for better cross-browser support (Motion Path! Overscroll … Read more about WebKit Features in Safari 16.0, opens in new tab
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You’ve probably heard a lot of hype around one of the newest kids on the framework block, Remix. It may be surprising that it got its start back in 2019, but it was originally only available as a subscription-based premium … Read more about The Basics of Remix, opens in new tab
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Figma has always encouraged collaboration between developers and designers. It strives on an endless treasury of community-made plugins. Need 3D elements? There’s a plugin for that. Need abstract SVGs? There’s a plugin for that, too.That said, the design part of Figma has … Read more about Building Interactive Figma Widgets, opens in new tab
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I recently discovered the joy of creating CSS-only games. It’s always fascinating how HTML and CSS are capable of handling the logic of an entire online game, so I had to try it! Such games usually rely on the ol’ … Read more about How I Made a Pure CSS Puzzle Game, opens in new tab
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Browsers are constantly adding new HTML, JavaScript and CSS features. Here are some useful additions to working with forms that you might have missed…… Read more about What’s New With Forms in 2022?, opens in new tab
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As the name suggests, overlapping charts visualize two different sets of data in a single diagram. The idea is that the overlapping bars allow us to compare data, say, year-over-year. They are also useful for things like tracking progress for … Read more about Overlapping Bar Charts, opens in new tab
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CSS-only Wolfenstein is a little project that I made a few weeks ago. It was an experiment with CSS 3D transformations and animations.Inspired by the FPS demo and another Wolfenstein CodePen, I decided to build my own version. … Read more about Hacking CSS Animation State and Playback Time, opens in new tab
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I started as a front-end web developer and then became a Flutter developer. I think there were some concepts that helped me adopt Flutter easier. There were also some new concepts that were different.In this article, I want to … Read more about Flutter For Front-End Web Developers, opens in new tab
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Ahmad Shadeed got an early jump on container queries and has a growing collection of examples based on everyday patterns.… Read more about iShadeed’s Container Queries Lab, opens in new tab
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A screen reader is an important accessibility tool for people with no or limited vision. People who are blind or those with low vision can use a screen reader to navigate the computer. Screen readers will read contents on the … Read more about A Brief Introduction to JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver, opens in new tab
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Those of you who have been reading CSS-Tricks for a while may remember that we used to publish a little thing we called CSS-Tricks Chronicles. Our friend Chris Coyier would write up a reflection from the past couple of … Read more about Behind the CSScenes, September 2022, opens in new tab
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A screen reader is an important accessibility tool for people with no or limited vision. People who are blind or those with low vision can use a screen reader to navigate the computer. Screen readers will read contents on the … Read more about Comparing JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver, opens in new tab
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We can make variables in CSS pretty easily:And we can declare them on any element:… Read more about Interpolating Numeric CSS Variables, opens in new tab
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The ::file-selector-button in CSS is a pseudo-element that selects <input type="file"> in HTML.You’ve undoubtedly come across file upload inputs — they’re very common, especially for including file attachments in a form, like a PDF … Read more about ::file-selector-button, opens in new tab
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Whenever we build simple or complex layouts using CSS Grid, we’re usually positioning items with line numbers. Grid layouts contain grid lines that are automatically indexed with positive and negative line numbers (that is unless we explicitly name them). … Read more about Using Grid Named Areas to Visualize (and Reference) Your Layout, opens in new tab
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Neither do I! And that’s probably because there’s a lot happening in WordPress-land. The evolution towards full-site editing (FSE) introduces frequent changes to the way we build themes and plugins, and at such break-neck speed that the documentation itself is … Read more about Not Sure How to WordPress Anymore?, opens in new tab
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The grid-column-end CSS property is part of the CSS Grid Layout specification, used to indicate the column grid line where a grid item ends in a grid layout. This property — among other line-based placement grid properties — controls … Read more about grid-column-end, opens in new tab
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The grid-column-start CSS property is part of the CSS Grid Layout specification, used to indicate the column grid line where a grid item starts in a grid layout. This property — among other line-based placement grid properties — controls … Read more about grid-column-start, opens in new tab
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If a utility class only does one thing, chances are you don’t want it to be overridden by any styles coming from elsewhere. One approach is to use !important to be 100% certain the style will be applied, regardless of … Read more about Using CSS Cascade Layers to Manage Custom Styles in a Tailwind Project, opens in new tab
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The GOV.UK team recently published “How and why we removed jQuery from GOV.UK“. This was an insightful look at how an organization can assess its tooling and whether something is still the best tool for the job. This … Read more about Removing jQuery from GOV.UK, opens in new tab
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Alright, so the last time we checked in, we were using CSS Grid and combining them with CSS clip-path and mask techniques to create grids with fancy shapes.Here’s just one of the fantastic grids we made together:… Read more about CSS Grid and Custom Shapes, Part 2, opens in new tab
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That ain’t rhetorical: I’m really interested in finding great use cases for CSS multi-column layouts.The answer seems straightforward. Use columns when you want to split any content into columns, right? Here is generally the sort of example you’ll find … Read more about When Do You Use CSS Columns?, opens in new tab
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If the thought of handwriting code seems silly, it might surprise you to know that it’s inevitable. If you’re unsure, think about the last job interview you did, and remember how there was no computer around in the interview room … Read more about Why (and How) I Write Code With Pencil and Paper, opens in new tab
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In a previous article, I looked at CSS Grid’s ability to create complex layouts using its auto-placement powers. I took that one step further in another article that added a zooming hover effect to images in a grid layout… Read more about CSS Grid and Custom Shapes, Part 1, opens in new tab
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The :right pseudo-class in CSS is used with the @page at-rule to select all right-hand pages in a print document that contains multiple pages. That’s handy for setting margins on double-sided pages so that the pages on the “right” side … Read more about :right, opens in new tab
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If you use VS Code, you might have enabled the setting for re-opening a previously open file next time the app launches. I do. I like that.… Read more about Quick Tip: Clear VS Code Cache for Open Files, opens in new tab
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Designing a beautiful “article” is wrought with tons of considerations. Unlike, say, a homepage, a long-form article is less about designing an interface than it is designing text in a way that creates a relaxed and comfortable reading experience.That’s … Read more about Designing for Long-Form Articles, opens in new tab
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The time for CSS-Tricks is over. Now is the time for CSS Crimes!In this current landscape of content service providers, users are often limited to expressing themselves in text, links, and images. Sanitization rules tend to strip out HTML, … Read more about Committing CSS Crimes, opens in new tab
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The :left pseudo-class in CSS is used with the @page at-rule to select all left-hand pages in a print document that contains multiple pages. That’s handy for setting margins on double-sided pages so that the pages on the “left” side … Read more about :left, opens in new tab
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The grid CSS property is a shorthand that allows you to set all the implicit and the explicit grid properties in a single declaration. Read more about grid, opens in new tab
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Creating a grid of images is easy, thanks to CSS Grid. But making the grid do fancy things after the images have been placed can be tricky to pull off.Say you want to add some fancy hover effect to … Read more about Zooming Images in a Grid Layout, opens in new tab
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CSS Scroll Snap allows websites to snap the web page or any other scroll container to a specific scroll position when the user performs a scrolling operation. This feature has been supported in all modern browsers for over two years, … Read more about How I Added Scroll Snapping To My Twitter Timeline, opens in new tab
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With speech interfaces becoming more of a thing, it’s worth exploring some of the things we can do with speech interactions. Like, what if we could say something and have that transcribed and pumped out as a downloadable PDF?Well, … Read more about Converting Speech to PDF with NextJS and ExpressJS, opens in new tab
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Apple unveiled an expanded version of its San Francisco system font at WWDC 2022. Then, last month, Jim Nielsen zeroed in on the font’s variations, explaining how the font provides a spectrum of variations based on the width and weight… Read more about Actually, the San Francisco Typeface Does Ship as a Variable Font, opens in new tab
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Dave Rupert with some modern CSS magic that tackles one of those classic conundrums: what happens when the CSS for component is unable to handle the content we throw at it?The specific situation is when a layout grid expects … Read more about Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers, opens in new tab
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When working with CSS Grid, the first thing to do is to set display: grid on the element that we want to be become a grid container. Then we explicitly define the grid using a combination of grid-template-columns, grid-template-rows… Read more about Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement Powers, opens in new tab
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Chris calls scroll shadows one his favorite CSS-Tricks of all time. Lea Verou popularized the pure CSS approach using four layered background gradients with some clever background-attachment magic. The result is a slick scrolling interaction that gives users a hint … Read more about Scroll Shadows? Pure CSS Parallax? Game Back On., opens in new tab
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The :first CSS pseudo-class is used with the @page at-rule to select the first page in a printed document. It’s very similar to the way :first-child selector works to target the first child element in a parent container, but instead … Read more about :first, opens in new tab
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It’s no secret that MDN rolled out a new design back in March. It’s gorgeous! And there are some sweet CSS-y gems in it that are fun to look at. One of those gems is how card components handle truncated … Read more about Recreating MDN’s Truncated Text Effect, opens in new tab
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The grid-auto-flow CSS property is part of the CSS Grid Layout specification that allows us to control the flow of grid items that are automatically placed when they are not explicitly positioned with any grid-placement properties. Read more about grid-auto-flow, opens in new tab
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URL Shorteners are tools we use to make links shorter than they actually are. With a URL Shortener, you can transform a long link (maybe for a registration form or article) into a shorter version.Behind the scenes, the long … Read more about Why I Chose Angular to Build a URL Shortener, opens in new tab
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It’s not everyday that HTML headings are the topic de jour, but my folder of saved links is accumulating articles about the recently merged removal of the document outline algorithm in the WHATWG Living Standard.First off, you should know … Read more about Roundup of Recent Document Outline Chatter, opens in new tab
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Michelle Barker with my favorite sorta blog post: short, practical, and leaves you with a valuable nugget for your time. Here, she gets into logical property shorthands in CSS, particularly those that set lengths just on a single axis, … Read more about Logical Properties for Useful Shorthands, opens in new tab
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Say you have a line in SVG:You can use the stroke-dasharray property in CSS to make dashes:That 5 value is a relative unit based … Read more about How stroke-dasharray Patterns Work, opens in new tab
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The grid-auto-columns CSS property is part of the CSS Grid Layout specification, specifying the size of the grid columns that were created without having an explicit size. In other words, this property sets the size of implicit columns and … Read more about grid-auto-columns, opens in new tab
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The grid-auto-rows CSS property is part of the CSS Grid Layout specification, specifying the size of the grid rows that were created without having an explicit size. In other words, this property sets the size of implicit rows and … Read more about grid-auto-rows, opens in new tab
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The print-color-adjust CSS property is sort of like a cost-cutting measure when it comes to printing a webpage. You know how you can literally print a webpage on a piece of paper? That’s what we’re talking about. By applying print-color-adjust… Read more about print-color-adjust, opens in new tab
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I think it’s super timely that Jim Nielsen wrote about his office space the other day. My family recently re-rooted in Colorado and I was up late last night setting up my desk and everything around it. So late, in … Read more about Office Spaces, opens in new tab
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Hooks are reusable functions. They allow you to use state and other features (e.g. lifecycle methods and so on) without writing a class. Hook functions let us “hook into” the React state lifecycle using functional components, allowing us to manipulate … Read more about React Hooks: The Deep Cuts, opens in new tab
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Our dear friend Robin has a new essay called In Praise of Shadows. Now, before you hop over there looking for nuggets on CSS box shadows, text shadows, and shadow filters… this is not that. It’s an essay … Read more about In Praise of Shadows, opens in new tab
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HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C++, Dart — there are so many programming languages out there and you may even be totally fluent in several of them! But as we aim to write more and better code, the way we … Read more about Technical Writing for Developers, opens in new tab
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Melanie Sumner has this super-specific collection of web-related nouns for describing a group or set of something. You know how there’s a school or fish or a herd of cows? Same sort of thing, but for funny web jargon.… Read more about Collective Nouns for the Web, opens in new tab
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For this fourth and final article of our little series on single-element loaders, we are going to explore 3D patterns. When creating a 3D element, it’s hard to imagine that just one HTML element is enough to simulate something like all six faces of a cube. But maybe we can get away … Read more about Single Element Loaders: Going 3D!, opens in new tab
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Eric Eggert:There are a few legitimate use cases for this technique. For example, you might have a table with titles and descriptions. To preserve more space for the title, you constrain the description to one line on small Read more about Text-overflow: ellipsis considered harmful, opens in new tab
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Bunny Fonts bills itself as the “privacy-first web font platform designed to put privacy back into the internet.” According to its FAQ:With a zero-tracking and no-logging policy, Bunny Fonts helps you stay fully GDPR compliant and puts your user’s Read more about Bunny Fonts, opens in new tab
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There is an abundance of both CSS and JavaScript libraries for animation libraries out there. So many, in fact, that choosing the right one for your project can seem impossible. That’s the situation I faced when I decided to build … Read more about How I Chose an Animation Library for My Solitaire Game, opens in new tab
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Hey, so it’s been a minute since we announced that CSS-Tricks is now part of the DigitalOcean family. Things are pretty much business as usual and hopefully it feels that way to you, too. Now that we’re getting settled, we’re … Read more about Help Shape the Future of CSS-Tricks!, opens in new tab
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We all make mistakes in our code. It happens! I know if I had one of those “Days Since Last Mistake” signs hanging over my desk, a big ol’ goose egg would be hovering above me all the time. It … Read more about My Dumbest CSS Mistakes, opens in new tab
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Right after “Where is the best place to learn?” perhaps the most commonly asked question I hear from folks getting into code is “What web development books should I get to learn?” Well, consider this an answer to that question … Read more about Great (and Free!) Web Development Books You Can Get Online, opens in new tab
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We’ve looked at spinners. We’ve looked at dots. Now we’re going to tackle another common pattern for loaders: bars. And we’re going to do the same thing in this third article of the series as we have the others … Read more about Single Element Loaders: The Bars, opens in new tab
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We’re all familiar with the standard way of linking up a stylesheet to the <head> of an HTML doc, right? That’s just one of several ways we’re able to write CSS. But what does it look like to style things … Read more about Different Ways to Write CSS in React, opens in new tab
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We’re looking at loaders in this series. More than that, we’re breaking down some common loader patterns and how to re-create them with nothing more than a single div. So far, we’ve picked apart the classic spinning loader. Now, … Read more about Single Element Loaders: The Dots, opens in new tab
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Calendars, shopping carts, galleries, file explorers, and online libraries are some situations where selectable items are shown in grids (i.e. square lattices). You know, even those security checks that ask you to select all images with crosswalks or whatever.… Read more about Conditionally Styling Selected Elements in a Grid Container, opens in new tab
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Well, sheesh. I opened a little can of worms when sharing Miriam’s “Am I on the IndieWeb yet?” with a short post bemoaning my own trouble getting on the IndieWeb train. But it’s a good can of worms.I think … Read more about De-Mystifying IndieWeb on a WordPress Site, opens in new tab
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Can’t smash the Like button hard enough for what Miriam Suzanne has to say on the challenging technical hurdles of implementing Webmentions:The first round required several online services along with HTML & JS changes to my static site, just to verify my Read more about Am I on the IndieWeb yet?, opens in new tab
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QR codes are funny, right? We love them, then hate them, then love them again. Anyways, they’ve lately been popping up again and it got me thinking about how they’re made. There are like a gazillion QR code generators out … Read more about Let’s Make a QR Code Generator With a Serverless Function!, opens in new tab
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Those of us who’ve been web developers more than a few years have probably written code using more than one JavaScript framework. With all the choices out there — React, Svelte, Vue, Angular, Solid — it’s all but inevitable. One … Read more about Building Interoperable Web Components That Even Work With React, opens in new tab
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There’s all kinds of ways to do that. Some more advisable and better-suited for certain situations than others, of course.… Read more about Please Give Me Some Space, opens in new tab
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Nolan Lawson sparked some discussion when he described a noticeable shift away from single-page applications (SPAs):Hip new frameworks like Astro, Qwik, and Elder.js are touting their MPA [multi-page application] with “0kB JavaScript by default.” Read more about SPAs, Shared Element Transitions, and Re-Evaluating Technology, opens in new tab
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Block patterns, also frequently referred to as sections, were introduced in WordPress 5.5 to allow users to build and share predefined block layouts in the pattern directory. The directory is the home of a wide range of … Read more about How to Create Block Theme Patterns in WordPress 6.0, opens in new tab
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I teach a class over at the local college here in Long Beach and a majority of the content is hosted on the Canvas LMS so students can access it online. And, naturally, I want the content to be as … Read more about Just How Long Should Alt Text Be?, opens in new tab
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It wasn’t long ago that Nick Sypteras showed us how to make custom badges for a GitHub repo. Well, Reza Shakeri put Beautify GitHub Profile together and it’s a huuuuuuge repo of different badges that pulls lots of examples … Read more about Beautify GitHub Profile, opens in new tab
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The grid-template CSS property is a shorthand that allows you to define grid columns, rows, and areas in a CSS grid container with one declaration. Read more about grid-template, opens in new tab
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We’ve walked through a series of posts now about interesting approaches to CSS hover effects. We started with a bunch of examples that use CSS background properties, then moved on to the text-shadow property where we technically didn’t use … Read more about Cool CSS Hover Effects That Use Background Clipping, Masks, and 3D, opens in new tab
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Myles C. Maxfield on the WebKit Blog published a nifty how-to for color fonts. It comes on the heels of what Ollie wrote up here on CSS-Tricks the other day, and while they cover a lot of common … Read more about Customizing Color Fonts on the Web, opens in new tab
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Earlier this year, I self-published an ebook called Understanding JavaScript Promises (free for download). Even though I didn’t have any intention of turning it into a print book, enough people reached out inquiring about a print version that … Read more about A Perfect Table of Contents With HTML + CSS, opens in new tab
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I was fortunate last year to get approached by Shawn Wang (swyx) about doing some work for Temporal. The idea was to cast my creative eye over what was on the site and come up with some … Read more about An Interactive Starry Backdrop for Content, opens in new tab
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Utilizing icons in user interface elements is helpful. In addition to element labeling, icons can help reinforce a user element’s intention to users. But I have to say, I notice a bit of icon misalignment while browsing the web. Even … Read more about Improving Icons for UI Elements with Typographic Alignment and Scale, opens in new tab
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Global styles, a feature of the block themes, is one of my favorite parts of creating block themes. The concept of global style variations in WordPress were introduced in Gutenberg 12.5 which would allow theme authors to create alternate … Read more about Creating Style Variations in WordPress Block Themes, opens in new tab
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In my last article we saw how CSS background properties allow us to create cool hover effects. This time, we will focus on the CSS text-shadow property to explore even more interesting hovers. You are probably wondering how adding shadow … Read more about Cool Hover Effects That Use CSS Text Shadow, opens in new tab
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Braydon Coyer recently launched a monthly CSS art challenge. He actually had reached out to me about donating a copy of my book Move Things with CSS to use as a prize for the winner of the challenge — … Read more about A CSS Slinky in 3D? Challenge Accepted!, opens in new tab
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According to Toshi Omagari, the author of Arcade Game Typography, the world’s first multi-colored digital font was created in 1982 for a never-released video game called Insector. Multi-colored fonts, sometimes called chromatic type, are still relatively rare on the … Read more about COLRv1 and CSS font-palette: Web Typography Gets Colorful, opens in new tab
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By now, you are probably familiar with one or more programming languages. But have you ever wondered how you could create your own programming language? And by that, I mean:A programming language is any set of rules that convert Read more about Let’s Create a Tiny Programming Language, opens in new tab
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AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is a modern image file format specification for storing images that offer a much more significant file reduction when compared to other formats like JPG, JPEG, PNG, and WebP. Version 1.0.0 of the AVIF specification … Read more about Useful Tools for Creating AVIF Images, opens in new tab
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Let’s say you have a website built on a platform that excels at design and it’s available at example.com. But that platform falls short at blogging. So you think to yourself, “What if I could use a different blogging … Read more about How to Serve a Subdomain as a Subdirectory, opens in new tab
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So, you’ve decided to build a blog with Next.js. Like any dev blogger, you’d like to have code snippets in your posts that are formatted nicely with syntax highlighting. Perhaps you also want to display line numbers in the … Read more about Syntax Highlighting (and More!) With Prism on a Static Site, opens in new tab
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If you’ve spent time looking at open-source repos on GitHub, you’ve probably noticed that most of them use badges in their README files. Take the official React repository, for instance. There are GitHub badges all over the README file that communicate important dynamic info, like the latest released … Read more about Adding Custom GitHub Badges to Your Repo, opens in new tab
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In design, reflections are stylized mirror images of objects. Even though they are not as popular as shadows, they have their moments — just think about the first time you explored the different font formats in MS Word or PowerPoint: … Read more about Creating Realistic Reflections With CSS, opens in new tab
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Howdy y’all! Unless you’ve been living under a rock (and maybe even then), you’ve undoubtedly heard the news that CSS-Tricks, was acquired by DigitalOcean. Congratulations to everyone! 🥳As a little hurrah to commemorate the occasion, I wanted to … Read more about Creating the DigitalOcean Logo in 3D With CSS, opens in new tab
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In my last article, we went over how to set up a web app that serves chunks and bundles of CSS and JavaScript from CloudFront. We integrated it into Vite so that when the app runs in a browser, … Read more about Setting Up CloudFront to Host Your Web App, opens in new tab
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A while ago, Geoff wrote an article about a cool hover effect. The effect relies on a combination of CSS pseudo-elements, transforms, and transitions. A lot of comments have shown that the same effect can be done using background … Read more about Cool Hover Effects That Use Background Properties, opens in new tab
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When creating a component-based, front-end infrastructure, one of the biggest pain points I’ve personally encountered is making components that are both reusable and responsive when there are nested components within components.… Read more about Avoiding the Pitfalls of Nested Components in a Design System, opens in new tab
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The grid-template-columns CSS property is part of the CSS Grid Layout specification, defining the columns of a grid container by specifying the size of the grid tracks and its line names.… Read more about grid-template-columns, opens in new tab
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The grid-template-rows CSS property is part of the CSS Grid Layout specification, defining the rows of a grid container by specifying the size of the grid tracks and its line names.… Read more about grid-template-rows, opens in new tab
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Automated front-end tests are awesome. We can write a test with code to visit a page — or load up just a single component — and have that test code click on things or type text like a user would, … Read more about Writing Strong Front-end Test Element Locators, opens in new tab
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In the 15 or so years since I started making WordPress websites, nothing has had more of an impact on my productivity — and my ability to enjoy front-end development — than adding Tailwind CSS to my workflow (and it … Read more about Adding Tailwind CSS to New and Existing WordPress Themes, opens in new tab
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Mermaid diagrams and flowcharts have been gaining traction, especially with GitHub’s announcement that they are natively supported in Markdown. Let’s take a look at what they are, how to use them, and just as importantly: why.Just like you … Read more about Making Mermaid Diagrams in Markdown, opens in new tab
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I’m a big fan of movies by J.J. Abrams. I enjoy their tight plots, quippy dialog, and of course: anamorphic lens flares. Filmmakers like Abrams use lens flare to add a dash of ‘homemade’ realism to their movies, … Read more about Add a CSS Lens Flare to Photos for a Bright Touch, opens in new tab
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Content delivery networks, or CDNs, allow you to improve the delivery of your website’s static resources, most notably, with CDN caching. They do this by serving your content from edge locations, which are located all over the world. When a … Read more about Adding CDN Caching to a Vite Build, opens in new tab
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We recently covered creating fancy borders with CSS mask properties, and now we are going to cut the corners with CSS mask and clip-path! A lot of techniques exist to cut different shapes from the corners of any element. … Read more about Tricks to Cut Corners Using CSS Mask and Clip-Path Properties, opens in new tab
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A bookmarklet is a JavaScript-based bookmark that adds to a web browser. I’d like to show you some awesome web browser hacks to aid your web development workflow and how to convert those hacks into time-saving bookmarklets.… Read more about 6 Useful Bookmarklets to Boost Web Development, opens in new tab
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You may not use XHTML (anymore), but when you write HTML, you may be more influenced by XHTML than you think. You are very likely writing HTML, the XHTML way.What is the XHTML way of writing HTML, and what … Read more about Write HTML, the HTML Way (Not the XHTML Way), opens in new tab
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I recently created a brick wall pattern as part of my #PetitePatterns series, a challenge where I create organic-looking patterns or textures in SVG within 560 bytes (or approximately the size of two tweets). To fit this constraint, I have … Read more about Optimizing SVG Patterns to Their Smallest Size, opens in new tab
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Hey hey!I’ve got a big announcement to make here. (Where’s my gong? I feel like this really needs a good gong hit.)CSS-Tricks, this very website you’re looking at, has been acquired by DigitalOcean!You can hear … Read more about CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean!, opens in new tab
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I want to introduce you to a new, experimental form control called <selectmenu>. We’ll get deep into it, including how much easier it is to style than a traditional <select> element. But first, let’s fill in some context … Read more about Say Hello to selectmenu, a Fully Style-able select Element, opens in new tab
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I have a handful of good links to articles about performance that are burning a hole in my bookmarks folder, and wanna drop them here to share.… Read more about 7 Fresh Links on Performance For March 2022, opens in new tab
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“Raise the curtains” is what I call an effect where the background goes from dark to light on scroll, and the content on top also goes from light to dark while in a sticky position.… Read more about How to Make a “Raise the Curtains” Effect in CSS, opens in new tab
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Styling ranges of text in software is a very useful thing to be able to do. Thankfully, we have the CSS Custom Highlight API to look forward to because it represents the future of styling text ranges on the web.… Read more about CSS Custom Highlight API: The Future of Highlighting Text Ranges on the Web, opens in new tab
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Ahmad Shadeed covers the CSS fit-content sizing keyword. It’s useful! It just doesn’t come up super often. I find myself using min-content a lot more, like when setting up the height of a grid-template-row.The fit-content keyword is actually … Read more about Ahmad Shadeed: Use Cases For CSS fit-content, opens in new tab
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We’ve discussed a lot about the internals of using CSS in this ongoing series on web components, but there are a few special pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes that, like good friends, willingly smell your possibly halitotic breath before you go … Read more about Web Component Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements are Easier Than You Think, opens in new tab
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I enjoy articles like Hartley Charlton’s “Microsoft Edge Looks Set to Overtake Safari as World’s Second Most Popular Desktop Browser.” It’s juicy! We know these massive players in the browser market care very much about their market share, so when … Read more about IE Down, Edge Up… Global Browser Usage Stats Are for Cocktail Parties and Conference Slides, opens in new tab
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If you’re looking for a primer on CSS specificity, we’ve got that. And if you’re trying to get ahead of the game, you should be aware of CSS Cascade Layers as well.… Read more about Manuel Matuzovic’s CSS Specificity Demo, opens in new tab
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A fun deep dive from Zach. Do you have an opinion on which you should use?The first option has a “trailing slash.” The second does not.I’ve always preferred this thinking: you use a trailing … Read more about Trailing Slashes on URLs: Contentious or Settled?, opens in new tab
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In my recent article about CSS underline bugs in Chrome, I discussed text-decoration-thickness and text-underline-offset, two relatively new and widely-supported CSS properties that give us more control over the styling of underlines.Let me demonstrate the usefulness of … Read more about When to Avoid the text-decoration Shorthand Property, opens in new tab
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For the past few weeks, I’ve been hiring for a senior full-stack JavaScript engineer at my rental furniture company, Pabio. Since we’re a remote team, we conduct our interviews on Zoom, and I’ve observed that some developers are not … Read more about Explain the First 10 Lines of Twitter’s Source Code to Me, opens in new tab
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Nic Chan:[…] the will-change property landed in major browsers in August 2015, and I’ve been on the lookout for when to use it ever since. It might seem self-evident to apply it to commonly animated properties such Read more about My white whale: A use case for will-change, opens in new tab
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Let’s face it: building an AA or AAA-accessible product can be quite daunting. Luckily, having an accessible product isn’t all-or-nothing. Even seemingly small improvements can have nice quality of life benefits for many people.In that spirit, here are five … Read more about 5 Accessibility Quick Wins You Can Implement Today, opens in new tab
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Kinda silly sounding, isn’t it? CSS database queries. But, hey, CSS is capable of talking to other languages in the sense that it can set the values of things that they can read. Plus, CSS can request other files, and … Read more about CSS Database Queries? Sure We Can!, opens in new tab
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On several occasions, I’ve needed to send off an HTTP request with some data to log when a user does something like navigate to a different page or submit a form. Consider this contrived example of sending some information to … Read more about Reliably Send an HTTP Request as a User Leaves a Page, opens in new tab
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That’s a damn one-two punch from Dave. He goes for the ultimate clickbait title¹, then follows up with a pile of epic advice for us all. If you want web browsers to get better, listen up:Complaining on Read more about Before I go: When it comes to complaining about web browsers, opens in new tab
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This is your complete guide to CSS cascade layers, a CSS feature that allows us to define explicit contained layers of specificity, so that we have full control over which styles take priority in a project without relying on specificity … Read more about A Complete Guide to CSS Cascade Layers, opens in new tab
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Being able to understand Node continues to be an important skill if you’re a front-end developer. Deno has arrived as another way to run JavaScript outside the browser, but the huge ecosystem of tools and software built with Node mean … Read more about Comparing Node JavaScript to JavaScript in the Browser, opens in new tab
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I linked to Jay’s front-end predictions last year and I think they panned out pretty well. I think he’s got a bit of a knack for that wide-scope look at front-end, including tooling and architecture, as well as browser tech. … Read more about (Jay Freestone’s) Front-End Predictions for 2022, opens in new tab
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Font Awesome is an incredibly popular icon library. Unfortunately, it’s somewhat easy to use in a way that results in less-than-ideal performance. By subsetting Font Awesome, we can remove any unused glyphs from the font files it provides. This will … Read more about Subsetting Font Awesome to Improve Performance, opens in new tab
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Within Drupal 10 core, we’re implementing a new auto-filling CSS Grid technique that I think is cool enough to share with the world.The requirements are: Read more about An Auto-Filling CSS Grid With Max Columns of a Minimum Size, opens in new tab
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A useful little UI widget thingy here from Jens Kuerschner. Click the add-to-calendar button, get a list of calendar apps, the user selects which one they actually use, and they get what they need for that calendar. Could be a … Read more about Add-to-Calendar Button UI Widget, opens in new tab
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Creating CSS link hover effects can add a bit of flair to an otherwise bland webpage. If you’ve ever found yourself stumped trying to make a slick hover effect, then I have six CSS effects for you to take and … Read more about 6 Creative Ideas for CSS Link Hover Effects, opens in new tab
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Greensock made the GSAP Flip plugin free in the 3.9 release. FLIP is an animation concept that helps make super performance state-change animations. Ryan Mulligan has a good blog post: FLIP, coined by Paul Lewis, is an Read more about GSAP Flip Plugin for Animation, opens in new tab
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Last year, Elise Blanchard did some great historical research and discovered that blue hyperlinks replaced black hyperlinks in 1993. They’ve been blue for so long now that the general advice I always hear is to keep them that way. There … Read more about Why are hyperlinks blue?, opens in new tab
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The File System Access API is a web API that allows read and write access to a user’s local files. It unlocks new capabilities to build powerful web applications, such as text editors or IDEs, image editing tools, improved … Read more about Getting Started With the File System Access API, opens in new tab
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... Read more about Sketchy Pencil Effect with Three.js Post-Processing, opens in new tab
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... Read more about Building an Interactive Sparkline Graph with D3, opens in new tab
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I was doing my Advent of UI Components, and I stumbled upon the from-font value for the text-decoration-thickness CSS property. I was curious about it, so I did a little research and I think what I found (and learned) … Read more about The CSS from-font Value Explained in 4 Demos, opens in new tab
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I’m always on the wrong branch. I’m either on master or main working on something that should be on a fix or feature branch. Or I’m on the last branch I was working on and should have cut a new … Read more about Git: Switching Unstaged Changes to a New Branch, opens in new tab
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TypeScript is a wonderful tool for writing JavaScript that scales. It’s more or less the de facto standard for the web when it comes to large JavaScript projects. As outstanding as it is, there are some tricky pieces for the … Read more about Demystifying TypeScript Discriminated Unions, opens in new tab
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Have you ever tried to make CSS borders in a repeating zig-zag pattern? Like where a colored section of a website ends and another differently colored section begins — not with a straight line, but angled zig zags, rounded humps, … Read more about Fancy CSS Borders Using Masks, opens in new tab
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Say you have three HTML classes, and a DOM element should only have one of them at a time:Now your job is to rotate them. That is, cycle through classes … Read more about How to Cycle Through Classes on an HTML Element, opens in new tab
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... Read more about Case Study: Windland — An Immersive Three.js Experience, opens in new tab
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A little bit of animation on a site can add some flair, impress users, and get their attention. You could have them run, no matter where they are on the page, immediately when the page loads. But what if your … Read more about How to Make a Scroll-Triggered Animation With Basic JavaScript, opens in new tab
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Say you’ve got a <Card /> component. It’s highly likely it shouldn’t be butted right up against any other components with no spacing around it. That’s true for… pretty much every component. So, how do you handle component spacing in … Read more about How Do You Handle Component Spacing in a Design System?, opens in new tab
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You know that joke, “Two front-end developers walk into a bar and find they have nothing in common”? It’s funny, yet frustrating, because it’s true.This article will present three different perspectives on accessibility in web design and development. Three … Read more about Why Don’t Developers Take Accessibility Seriously?, opens in new tab
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Another aspect of web components that we haven’t talked about yet is that a JavaScript function is called whenever a web component is added or removed from a page. These lifecycle callbacks can be used for many things, including making … Read more about Context-Aware Web Components Are Easier Than You Think, opens in new tab
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One of the things that makes this new, tooling-heavy era of front-end development so seemingly hard to understand at first is that, while we often call things by a singular name, they tend to be actually comprised of several different … Read more about What the Heck Does “npm” Mean?, opens in new tab
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Now that we know what npm stands for and have a super general idea of what it does and how it fits into web development, we ought to spend a little bit of time looking at the command line, because … Read more about What the Heck is the Command Line?, opens in new tab
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By now, you’re becoming quite knowledgeable with npm! So far, we’ve broken down the three letters in “npm” to gain a better understand of Node and package managers. In the previous chapter, we even installed Node and npm while … Read more about How the Heck Do You Install npm Packages?, opens in new tab
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npm is, as you now know, a package manager. But like similar, earlier tools that run tasks in the command line, such as Grunt and Gulp, npm can also run tasks—which is perfect for us because now that … Read more about What the Heck Are npm Commands?, opens in new tab
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Feel like you have a pretty good idea of what a package manager is? We’ve certainly covered a lot of ground getting familiar with all the terms and concepts of package managers, but I’d say it’s high time we actually … Read more about How the Heck Do You Install npm?, opens in new tab
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If you’re keeping score, so far in this npm guide we’ve developed a general understanding of what npm is—notably, that it stands for Node Package Manager. In the process, we’ve discussed the importance of the command line and how it’s … Read more about What the Heck is a Package Manager?, opens in new tab
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... Read more about How to Add More Fun to a Game: Extending “The Aviator”, opens in new tab
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Learn how to code creative animations using SVG paths and the getPointAtLength() function.... Read more about Animate Anything Along an SVG Path, opens in new tab
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The Svelte transition API provides a first-class way to animate your components when they enter or leave the document, including custom Svelte transitions. By default, the transition directive uses CSS animations, which generally offer better performance and allow the browser’s … Read more about How to Build Your First Custom Svelte Transition, opens in new tab
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Mondrian is famous for paintings with big thick black lines forming a grid, where each cell is white, red, yellow, or blue. This aesthetic pairs well with the notoriously rectangular web, and that hasn’t gone unnoticed over the years with … Read more about Mondrian Art in CSS From 5 Code Artists, opens in new tab
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Every now and then, I find that I’ve accumulated a bunch of links about various things I find interesting. Accessibility is one of those things! Here’s a list of related links to other articles that I’ve been saving up and … Read more about 8 Helpful Accessibility Links for January 2022, opens in new tab
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Sass offers functions and mixins that accept parameters. You can use Sass default parameters, that is, parameters that have a value even if you don’t provide them when the function or mixin is called. Let’s focus on mixins here. … Read more about A Practical Tip For Using Sass Default Parameters, opens in new tab
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Hot off the presses from Devon Govett, creator of Parcel, is Parcel CSS:A CSS parser, transformer, and minifier written in Rust.Nice. The CSS world could use a little processing shake up like this.I just wrote a … Read more about Parcel CSS: A New CSS Parser, Transformer, and Minifier, opens in new tab
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It’s a god-damned miracle to me that open source is as robust as it is in tech. Consider the options. You could have a job (or be entrepreneurial) with your coding skills and likely be paid quite well. Or, you … Read more about Open Source & Sustainability, opens in new tab
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You know how you can get cardboard boxes that come totally flat? You fold ‘em up and tape ‘em to make them into a useful box. Then when it’s time to recycle them, you cut them back apart to flatten … Read more about How to Make a Pure CSS 3D Package Toggle, opens in new tab
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Say you have an elements with CSS tooltips and you’re going to position those tooltips such that it opens up next to the element on hover (or probably better: when clicked/tapped). Next to it where? Above it? What if the … Read more about What Would it Take to Prevent CSS Tooltips From Overflowing?, opens in new tab
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Vite (pronounced “veet”) is a newish JavaScript bundler. It comes batteries-included, requires almost no configuration to be useful, and includes plenty of configuration options. Oh—and it’s fast. Incredibly fast.This post will walk through the process of converting an existing … Read more about Adding Vite to Your Existing Web App, opens in new tab
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Custom Fields in WordPress are arbitrary bits of data that you can apply to Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types in WordPress. Metadata, as it were, in the form of key/value pairs. For example: Read more about How to Use Native Custom Fields in WordPress (and 5 Useful Examples), opens in new tab
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... Read more about 3D Typing Effects with Three.js, opens in new tab
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... Read more about How to Animate SVG Shapes on Scroll, opens in new tab
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... Read more about Creating a Risograph Grain Light Effect in Three.js, opens in new tab
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... Read more about How to Create a Cover Page Transition, opens in new tab
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I was working on a client project a few days ago and wanted to create a certain effect on an <img>. See, background images can do the effect I was looking for somewhat easily with background-attachment: fixed;. With … Read more about The Search For a Fixed Background Effect With Inline Images, opens in new tab
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Learn how to create a scroll based animation in WebGL with Three.js.... Read more about Crafting Scroll Based Animations in Three.js, opens in new tab
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Your mission — should you decide to accept it — is to build a Button component in four frameworks, but, only use one button.css file!This idea is very important to me. I’ve been working on a component library called … Read more about How to Make a Component That Supports Multiple Frameworks in a Monorepo, opens in new tab
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We recently talked with Elad Shechter on his new CSS reset, and shortly after that Josh Comeau blogged his. We’re in something of a new era of CSS resets where… you kind of don’t need one? There isn’t … Read more about Notes on Josh Comeau’s Custom CSS Reset, opens in new tab
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... Read more about Creating Native Web Components, opens in new tab
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CSS overrides can change the default look of almost anything: Read more about Should CSS Override Default Browser Styles?, opens in new tab
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I’ve encountered two bugs in Chrome while testing the new CSS text-decoration-thickness and text-underline-offset properties, and I want to share them with you here in this article.But first, let’s acknowledge one thing:… Read more about CSS Underlines Are Too Thin and Too Low in Chrome, opens in new tab
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Learn how to build a scrollable and draggable horizontal timeline using GSAP's ScrollTrigger and Draggable plugins.... Read more about Building a Scrollable and Draggable Timeline with GSAP, opens in new tab
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Fingerprinting is bad. It’s a term that refers to building up enough metadata about a user that you can essentially figure out who they are. JavaScript has access to all sorts of fingerprinting possibilities, which then combined with the IP … Read more about CSS-Based Fingerprinting, opens in new tab
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The CSS overflow-clip-margin property determines how far the overflow of an element can go beyond the element’s box before being clipped. This area is called the overflow clip edge. Read more about overflow-clip-margin, opens in new tab
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I’ll bet you are using browser extensions right now. Some of them are extremely popular and useful, like ad blockers, password managers, and PDF viewers. These extensions (or “add-ons”) are not limited to those purposes — you can do a … Read more about How to Create a Browser Extension, opens in new tab
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The year has come to a close and it’s time again for our end-of-year wrapup. The most important message is this: thank you. (thankyouthankyou)Thanks for stopping by and reading this site. If you didn’t, I’d be out … Read more about Thank You (2021 Edition), opens in new tab
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Take two minutes right now and visit your current project in a browser. Then, using only the Tab key, you should be able to navigate between interactive elements including buttons, links, and form elements.If you are sighted, you should… Read more about Standardizing Focus Styles With CSS Custom Properties, opens in new tab
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Say you’ve got a two-column CSS grid and you want one of those columns to behave like position: sticky;. There is nothing stopping you from doing that. But the default height for those two columns is going to be … Read more about Using Position Sticky With CSS Grid, opens in new tab
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This is a fantastic article from Julia Evans about duking it out with modern front-end tooling. Julia has made a bunch of Vue projects and typically uses no build process at all: I usually have an index.html file, a script.js Read more about Some notes on using esbuild, opens in new tab
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Quick hits! There is a new web API called EyeDropper: Read more about Eye Droppin’, opens in new tab
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From my perspective, the question of what one thing we can do to make a website better is not a technical one. The more I browse the internet, the more I realize that the biggest issue with a lot of … Read more about Help Users Accomplish What They Came For, opens in new tab
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An interesting (scary) trick of an nearly undetectable exploit. Wolfgang Ettlinger:What if a backdoor literally cannot be seen and thus evades detection even from thorough code reviews?I’ll post the screenshot of the exploit from the post with the … Read more about The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor, opens in new tab
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I try to keep up with WordPress news because I’m a big WordPress user and have many production sites that run on it. WordPress has been good to me as a site builder for literally my entire career. So, like … Read more about Links on WordPress I, opens in new tab
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I’ve built websites that are used by millions of people all over the world. I’ve made more mistakes than I care to count and I’ve had to deal with the repercussions of those mistakes for years thereafter. Through all of … Read more about Learn From Remix, opens in new tab
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The SVG <path> syntax is a beast. There are all sorts of commands that make up a mini-language all of its own — so powerful that it’s capable of drawing anything. Don’t be too scared of it, though, because some … Read more about Flip, Invert, and Reverse, opens in new tab
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What if HTML had “tabs”? That would be cool, says I. Dave has been spending some of his time and energy, along with a group of “Tabvengers” from OpenUI, on this. A lot of research leads to a bit … Read more about Spicy Sections, opens in new tab
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In nature, no two things are ever the same. Life is imperfect, unpredictable, and beautiful. We can walk through the same forest every day and see differently colored leaves. We can look up at the clouds every minute and watch … Read more about Embrace the Unpredictable, opens in new tab
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What is one thing people can do to make their website better? Exactly what you want to build!Ask yourself: Read more about Exactly What You Want, opens in new tab
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This article is part of our “Advanced Git” series. Be sure to follow us on Twitter or sign up for our newsletter to hear about future articles!The “Reflog” is one of Git’s lesser-known features—but one that can be extremely … Read more about Using the Reflog to Restore Lost Commits, opens in new tab
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I was playing this game on Apple Arcade the other day called wurdweb. It’s a fun little game! Little touches like the little shape dudes that walk around the screen (but otherwise don’t do anything) give it a lot … Read more about Diagonal Stripes Wipe Animation, opens in new tab
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This is a neat idea for a research project. The big map is fun, but the research had some tidbits in it worth looking at.The average favicon network request takes 130ms, at least from our speedy cloud instance. Read more about We Analyzed 425,909 Favicons, opens in new tab
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Apple Music has this “Spatial Audio” feature where the direction of the music in your headphones is based on the location of the device. It’s tough to explain just how neat it is. But that’s not what I’m here to … Read more about Recreating the Apple Music Hits Playlist Animation in CSS, opens in new tab
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I’ve got some blind spots in CSS-related performance things. One example is the will-change property. It’s a good name. You’re telling the browser some particular property (or the scroll-position or content) uh, will, change: Read more about When is it “Right” to Reach for contain and will-change in CSS?, opens in new tab
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I love little touches that make a website feel like more than just a static document. What if web content wouldn’t just “appear” when a page loaded, but instead popped, slid, faded, or spun into place? It might be a … Read more about A Handy Little System for Animated Entrances in CSS, opens in new tab
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The browser has long been a medium for art and design. From Lynn Fisher’s joyful A Single Div creations to Diana Smith’s staggeringly detailed CSS paintings, wildly creative, highly skilled developers have — over the years — continuously pushed … Read more about Creating Generative Patterns with The CSS Paint API, opens in new tab
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Tyler Sticka digs in here in the best possible way: by making a test page and literally measuring performance. Maybe 1,000 icons is a little bit of an edge case, but hey, 250 rows of data with four icons in … Read more about Which SVG technique performs best for way too many icons?, opens in new tab
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Hey folks! Elad reached out to me to show me his new CSS reset project called the-new-css-reset. It’s quite interesting! I thought a neat way to share it with you is not only to point you toward it, but … Read more about An Interview With Elad Shechter on “The New CSS Reset”, opens in new tab
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I didn’t realize the support for @supports determining selector support was so good! I usually think of @supports as a way to test for property: value pair support. But with the selector() function, we can test for selector support … Read more about @supports selector(), opens in new tab
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I believe that a traditional WordPress theme should be able to work as effectively as a static site or a headless web app. The overwhelming majority of WordPress websites are built with a good ol’ fashioned WordPress theme. Most of … Read more about How to Build a Nearly Headless WordPress Website, opens in new tab
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We aren’t supposed to be doing any sort of decision-making based on browser User-Agent Strings. But, ya know, collectively, we do.Karl Dubost notes that there is a significant change coming to them, notably moving the version integer past … Read more about Three-Digit Browser Versions in March 2022, opens in new tab
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I love CSS Grid. I love how, with just a few lines of code, we can achieve fully responsive grid layouts, often without any media queries at all. I’m quite comfortable wrangling CSS Grid to produce interesting layouts, while keeping … Read more about Expandable Sections Within a CSS Grid, opens in new tab
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One way to work with Custom Properties is to think of them as design tokens. Colors, spacings, fonts, and whatnot. You set them at the root of the page and use them throughout your CSS. Very useful, and the classic … Read more about Different Degrees of Custom Property Usage, opens in new tab
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As someone just sittin’ back watching CSS evolve, it feels like we’re at one of the hottest moments of innovation in CSS history. It was really something when we got flexbox across all browsers, and not terribly long after, grid. … Read more about CSS is Going Gosh-Darned Hog Wild, I Tell Ya What, opens in new tab
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Web-browser for research that helps programmers think clearly.With Bonsai, rather than being like, I’m going to go use my web browser now, you hit Option + Space and it brings up a browser. It’s either full-screen or a … Read more about Bonsai Browser, opens in new tab
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Ahmad Shadeed blogs the sentiment that we might not need to lean on position: absolute as much as we might have in the past. For one thing: stacking elements. For example, if you have a stack of elements that should … Read more about Less Absolute Positioning With Modern CSS, opens in new tab
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Google Analytics is powerful analytics software. A common way to use it is to just slap the JavaScript snippet on every page template you have and let it collect basic data about unique visitors and pageviews and such. That’s useful, … Read more about WooCommerce + Google Analytics, opens in new tab
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Which new framework should I learn this year? Is it time to ditch my CMS? What tools should I pick up if I want to scale my site to an audience of millions? The 2021 Jamstack Community Survey is here … Read more about Jamstack Developers’ Favorite Frameworks of 2021, opens in new tab
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This article is part of our “Advanced Git” series. Be sure to follow us on Twitter or sign up for our newsletter to hear about the next articles!In this third installment of our “Advanced Git” series, we’ll look at … Read more about Better Collaboration With Pull Requests, opens in new tab
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The README for Cash is straightforward:Cash is an absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers (IE11+) that provides jQuery-style syntax for manipulating the DOM. Utilizing modern browser features to minimize the codebase, developers can use the familiar chainable methods Read more about Cash (Tiny jQuery Alternative), opens in new tab
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Why would a company promote a native app over their perfectly usable website?We’d have to ask them, I suppose. But it’s hard not to see this push to native as a matter of priorities: that these companies consider native Read more about Those “Get The App” Banners, opens in new tab
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We’ve already discussed how creating web components is easier than you think, but there’s another aspect of the specification that we haven’t discussed yet and it’s a way to customize (nay, supercharge) a built-in element. It’s similar to … Read more about Supercharging Built-In Elements With Web Components “is” Easier Than You Think, opens in new tab
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I’d say cloud functions are one of the most transformative technologies in the last bunch of years. They are (usually) cheap, scale well, secure in their inherent isolation, and often written in JavaScript—comfortable territory for front-end developers. Nearly every cloud … Read more about AWS Lambdas: Easy, Easier, Easiest, opens in new tab
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Zach did that thing where each of his blog posts has a special URL with the design of social image card that is screenshat by a headless browser (like Puppeteer) and used as a true meta Open Graph image, meaning … Read more about If I work really hard on my Open Graph images, people will share my blog posts., opens in new tab
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border-inline is a CSS logical shorthand property that combines border-inline-color, border-inline-style, and border-inline-width into a single declaration, styling an element’s borders in the inline (left and right) direction.border-inline… Read more about border-inline, opens in new tab
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border-block is a CSS logical shorthand property that combines border-block-color, border-block-style, and border-block-width into a single declaration.border-block is the logical equivalent to physical properties including border-top and border-bottom… Read more about border-block, opens in new tab
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Have you ever fretted that front-end web development moves so fast that if you stepped away for a while, you’d be lost coming back? Rachel Smith has:The hectic pace of needing to learn one thing after the next Read more about I completely ignored the front-end development scene for 6 months. It was fine., opens in new tab
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Nathan Hardy shares when things “clicked”:Reflecting back on this time, I think there are a few key concepts that were vital to things finally all making sense and fitting together. These were:• The Box Model (e.g. box-sizing, height, width, margin, padding)• Layout Read more about What I Wish I Knew About CSS When Starting Out As A Front-Ender, opens in new tab
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The outline-color CSS property specifies the color of an element’s outline. What’s an outline? An outline is a line that is drawn around elements — outside the border edge — that is used for accessibility or decoration purposes when that … Read more about outline-color, opens in new tab
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Hemanth HM very succinctly shows off ES2021 features. Gosh it doesn’t feel like that long ago that all we could talk about is ES2015, and now that’s over a half-decade behind us. There are new things like “arbitrarily chuck underscores … Read more about ES2021 Features, opens in new tab
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Now that cross-browser support is at a tipping point, it’s a good time to take a look at logical properties and values. If you’re creating a website in multiple languages, logical properties and values are incredibly useful. Even if you’re … Read more about CSS Logical Properties and Values, opens in new tab
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Perhaps the #1 reason I love Astro is that it brings the JavaScript component authoring experience to the Static Site Generator world with zero JavaScript (except bits you very specifically opt-in to). That HTML-first approach is also why I like … Read more about Slinkity, opens in new tab
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At Cloudflare, we have a great product called Workers KV which is a key-value storage layer that replicates globally. It can handle millions of keys, each of which is accessible from within a Worker script at exceptionally low latencies, … Read more about How I Built a Cross-Platform Desktop Application with Svelte, Redis, and Rust, opens in new tab
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Joshua Comeau digs into how styled-components works by re-building the basics. A fun and useful journey. styled-components seems like the biggest player in the CSS-in-React market. Despite being in that world, I haven’t yet been fully compelled by it. I’m … Read more about Demystifying styled-components, opens in new tab
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I get a hands-on performance review with Tim Kadlec of WebPageTest! This is a real honor as Tim is a real performance guru who knows WebPageTest in and out. I’m all about getting a little free consulting helping y’all … Read more about #207: Performance Testing CSS-Tricks with WebPageTest, opens in new tab
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Dave:petite-vue is a new cut of the Vue project specifically built with progressive enhancement in mind. At 5kb, petite-vue is a lightweight Alpine (or jQuery) alternative that can be “sprinkled” over your project requiring no extra bundling steps Read more about My petite-vue review, opens in new tab
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As the web gets more and more capable, developers are able to make richer online experiences. There are times, however, where some new web capabilities may not work as you would expect in the interest of usability, security and privacy.… Read more about Web Features That May Not Work As You’d Expect, opens in new tab
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We’re going to walk through the technical process of hooking into Google Drive’s API to source content on a website. We’ll examine the step-by-step implementation, as well as how to utilize server-side caching to avoid the major pitfalls to avoid … Read more about Using Google Drive as a CMS, opens in new tab
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Eric, again not mincin’ no words with blog post titles. This is me:The most common CSS declaration organization technique I come across is none whatsoever.Almost none, anyway. I tend to group them by whatever dumps out of my … Read more about Organize your CSS declarations alphabetically, opens in new tab
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Remember Tyler Hall’s personal story of a UX moment where the popup sharing context menu on iOS had no visible indication that the content inside was scrollable? The thing his mom wanted to do seemed impossible because it was out … Read more about Yet Another Mobile Context Menu With No Indication it Can Scroll, opens in new tab
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Dr. Axel Rauschmayer looks at JSON modules, which is already live in Chrome 91 (but nothing else). It looks just like an ES Modules-style import, only you asset the type at the end. Read more about ECMAScript proposal: JSON modules, opens in new tab
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Turning website design files into a combination of HTML, CSS and JavaScript is the bread and butter of many front-end web development jobs, but there’s a part of this work that doesn’t neatly fit in to tutorials on any specific … Read more about A Step-By-Step Process for Turning Designs Into Code, opens in new tab
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Here’s a really good ol’ post from way back in 2015 all about the nine states of design and how we should think all the edge cases whenever we’re building interfaces. Vince Speelman writes:… Read more about The Nine States of Design, opens in new tab
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Eric doesn’t mince words, especially in the title, but also in the conclusion:In modern web design and development, displaying an image is a highly intentional act. Alternate descriptions allow us to explain the content of the image, and in Read more about Your Image Is Probably Not Decorative, opens in new tab
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I watched Kevin Powell’s video where he was able to recreate a nice typewriter-like animation using CSS. It’s neat and you should definitely check it out because there are bonafide CSS tricks in there. I’m sure you’ve seen other CSS … Read more about Typewriter Animation That Handles Anything You Throw at It, opens in new tab
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If you’re anything like me, you like being lazy shortcuts. The “Deploy to Netlify” button allows me to take this lovely feature of my personality and be productive with it.Clicking the button above lets me (or you!) instantly … Read more about Hack the “Deploy to Netlify” Button Using Environment Variables to Make a Customizable Site Generator, opens in new tab
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The click event is quite simple and easy to use; you listen for the event and run code when the event is fired. It works on just about every HTML element there is, a core feature of the DOM API.… Read more about When a Click is Not Just a Click, opens in new tab
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I was working on a bug ticket the other day where it was reported that an icon was sitting low in a button. Just not aligned like it should be. I had to go on a little journey to figure … Read more about Fixing a Bug in Low-Resolution Mode, opens in new tab
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I got this exact question in an email the other day, and I thought it would make a nice blog post because of how wonderfully satisfying this is to do in CSS these days. Plus we can sprinkle in polish … Read more about How do you make a layout with pictures down one side of a page matched up with paragraphs on the other side?, opens in new tab
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Delan Azabani digs into the (hopefully) coming soon ::spelling-error and ::grammar-error pseudo selectors in CSS. Design control is always nice. Hey, if we can style scrollbars and style selected text, why not this?The squiggly lines that indicate possible spelling or grammar errors Read more about Chromium spelling and grammar features, opens in new tab
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I needed to select some elements between two fixed indexes the other day — like literally the second through fifth elements. Ironically, I have a whole post on “Useful :nth-child Recipes” but this wasn’t one of them. The answer, it … Read more about :nth-child Between Two Fixed Indexes, opens in new tab
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I use this line, or one like it, in a lot of quick demos. Not that it’s not a production-worthy line of code—I just tend to be a bit more explicit on bigger projects. Read more about What does `font: 110%/1.4 system-ui` mean?, opens in new tab
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Not news to any web developer in 2021: CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for creating complex, distinct two-dimensional modern web layouts.Recently, I have been experimenting with CSS Grid and alignment properties to create component layouts that … Read more about Positioning Overlay Content with CSS Grid, opens in new tab
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I think we’re all largely aware of colors like this:I guess you’d just call those “named colors” in CSS. Those aren’t the only kind of named colors there are though. Some of them are … Read more about System *Things, opens in new tab
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Sara digs into a bug I happened to have mentioned back in 2012 where fluid type didn’t resize when the browser window resized. Back then, it affected Chrome 20 and Safari 6, but the bug still persists today in Safari … Read more about Working around the viewport-based fluid typography bug in Safari, opens in new tab
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The content-visibility property in CSS indicates to the browser whether or not an element’s contents should be rendered at initial load time. So, as the browser starts loading content and is playing it on the screen, this property allows us … Read more about content-visibility, opens in new tab
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Let’s forego the usual circles and bars we typically see used in charts for more eccentric shapes. With online presentations more and more common today, a quick way to spruce up your web slides and make them stand out is … Read more about How to Create CSS Charts With Interesting Shapes, Glyphs and Emoji, opens in new tab
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The outline property in CSS draws a line around the outside of an element. This is quite similar to the border property, the main exception being that outline isn’t a part of the box model. It is often used for … Read more about Using the `outline` Property as a Collapsable Border, opens in new tab
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Clipping and masking have been around for a while now in CSS and even have pretty decent browser support. I recently worked on a project that needed to use a clipping technique for tooltips showing above links in text.… Read more about Perfect Tooltips With CSS Clipping and Masking, opens in new tab
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Jim Nielsen: If somebody says a comment isn’t adding any value, I would ask: to whom?Personally, I’ve never liked the advice that writing obvious comments is bad practice—probably because I write obvious comments all the time.Jim showed … Read more about Useful and Useless Code Comments, opens in new tab
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If you’re abhorred by using inline styles, just move that style to the class attribute! And then make sure you have CSS in place that, ya know, does what it says on the box. I've revolutionized CSS. pic.twitter.com/1AWCldyCwP Read more about Inline Styles as Classes (lol), opens in new tab
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The Web Animations API lets us construct animations and control their playback with JavaScript. The API opens the browser’s animation engine to developers and was designed to underlie implementations of both CSS animations and transitions, leaving the door open to … Read more about How I Used the WAAPI to Build an Animation Library, opens in new tab
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Max Böck took me up on my challenge to look through a codebase and see how many of the @media queries could ultimately become @container queries.I took the bait and had a look at some of my projects – Read more about Media Queries in Times of @container, opens in new tab
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Usually, when “unused” comes up in conversation regarding CSS, it’s about removing chunks of CSS that are not used in your site or, at least, the styles not currently in use on a specific page. The minimal amount of CSS … Read more about Detect Unused Classes in… HTML, opens in new tab
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WordPress sites have an API by default. Wanna see this site’s most recent posts, with just a specific set of data… in JSON format? Here ya go. Alex Riviere made a joke site using that.At first, the site … Read more about CSS-Trickz: An Experiment with Netlify’s On-Demand Builders, opens in new tab
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Let’s look at some extensions for VS Code that make writing and editing HTML (and languages that are basically HTML with extra powers) better. You may not like all of them. Maybe some of them don’t appeal to you, solve … Read more about VS Code Extensions for HTML, opens in new tab
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Colin Oakley:• Accessible — Use semantic HTML, and make sure we meet the WCAG 2.1 AA standard as a minimum and it works with assisted technologies (this sits alongside the DWP Accessibility Manual)• Agnostic — Build Read more about Principles for user-centered front-end development, opens in new tab
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I just joked that we’re basically getting everything we want in CSS super fast (mostly referring to container queries, my gosh, can you imagine they are actually coming?). Now we might actually get parent selectors?! As in .parent:has(.child) { … Read more about Can I :has(), opens in new tab
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A little while back, Chris shared this nice hexagonal grid. And true to its name, it’s using —wait for it — CSS Grid to form that layout. It’s a neat trick! Combining grid columns, grid gaps, and creative clipping … Read more about Hexagons and Beyond: Flexible, Responsive Grid Patterns, Sans Media Queries, opens in new tab
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Blocks in WordPress are great. Drop some into the page, arrange them how you like, and you’ve got a pretty sweet landing page with little effort. But what if the default blocks in WordPress need a little tweaking? Like, what … Read more about A Crash Course in WordPress Block Filters, opens in new tab
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How do I debug Safari on iOS?These are my general steps, starting with not even using iOS Safari.… Read more about Debugging iOS Safari, opens in new tab
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PPK laid out an interesting situation in “Two options for using custom properties” where he and Stefan Judis had two different approaches for doing the same thing with custom properties. In one approach, hover and focus styles for a … Read more about Are Custom Properties a “Menu of What Will Change”?, opens in new tab
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Pedro Duarte made a wishlist for styled code blocks in blog posts and documentation, then hand-rolls a perfect solution for that wishlist. For example, a feature to be able to highlight certain lines or words within the code block. The … Read more about Code blocks, but better, opens in new tab
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Manuel Matuzović goes line-by-line through a boilerplate HTML document. I like it. It’s a good reference and has a lot of the same type of stuff I tend to put in the main HTML template. It makes me think about … Read more about HTML Boilerplates, opens in new tab
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!default is a Sass flag that indicates conditional assignment to a variable — it assigns a value only if the variable was previously undefined or null. Consider this code snippet:To the Sass compiler, this line … Read more about Creating Stylesheet Feature Flags With Sass !default, opens in new tab
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When dealing with complex CSS animations, there is a tendency to create expansive @keyframes with lots of declarations. There are a couple of tricks though that I want to talk about that might help make things easier, while staying in … Read more about Advanced CSS Animation Using cubic-bezier(), opens in new tab
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Chen Hui Jing covers some recent movement in DevTools:Firefox’s grid inspector was pretty full-featured from the get-to and released together with CSS grid in Firefox 52. It was constantly improved upon since. Chrome added a basic grid inspector Read more about DevTools for CSS layouts 2021 edition, opens in new tab
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My friends at Sparkbox are doing a survey on design systems, as they do each year. Go ahead and fill it out if you please. Here are the results from last year. In both 2019 and 2020, the vibe was … Read more about 2021 Design Systems (Survey/Courses), opens in new tab
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Let’s talk about disabled buttons. Specifically, let’s get into why we use them and how we can do better than the traditional disabled attribute in HTML (e.g. <button disabled> ) to mark a button as disabled.There are lots of … Read more about Making Disabled Buttons More Inclusive, opens in new tab
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Chrome is experimenting with @container, a property within the CSS Working Group Containment Level 3 spec being championed by Miriam Suzanne of Oddbird, and a group of engineers across the web platform. @container brings us the ability to … Read more about Next Gen CSS: @container, opens in new tab
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How many times have you heard that (or even uttered it under your own breath)? I know I’ve heard it in conversations. I also know I’ve wondered the same thing about a product or two — hey, the idea here … Read more about I could build this during the weekend, opens in new tab
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Like Jamstack, Netlify is coining this term.If your reaction is: great, a new thing I need to know about and learn, know that while Distributed Persistent Rendering (DPR) does involve some new things, this is actually a push … Read more about Distributed Persistent Rendering (DPR), opens in new tab
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Kitty reflected on an ancient blog post here on CSS-Tricks on how to make an animated pie timer. The old technique is still clever. The new technique is equally clever and much easier. I particularly like the steps() animation function… Read more about CSS Pie Timer Re-Revisited, opens in new tab
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A bunch of new developer tools have landed in the past year and they are biting at the heels of the tools that have dominated front-end development over the last few years, including webpack, Babel, Rollup, Parcel, create-react-app.These new … Read more about Comparing the New Generation of Build Tools, opens in new tab
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I didn’t know this was a thing until Stefan Judis’s post: You give an anchor link a URL via a ping attribute, and the browser will hit that URL with a web request … Read more about The `ping` attribute on anchor links, opens in new tab
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You’ve seen the iconic image. Perhaps some of what makes that image so iconic is that people see what they want to see in it. If you see it as a critique of CSS being silly, weird, or confusing, you … Read more about CSS Is, In Fact, Awesome, opens in new tab
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Rich Harris:Think of it as Next for Svelte. It’s a framework for building apps with Svelte, complete with server-side rendering, routing, code-splitting for JS and CSS, adapters for different serverless platforms and so on.Great move. I find … Read more about SvelteKit is in public beta, opens in new tab
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This post is an introduction to XState as it might be used in a Svelte project. XState is unique in the JavaScript ecosystem. It won’t keep your DOM synced with your application state, but it will help manage your application’s … Read more about Coordinating Svelte Animations With XState, opens in new tab
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It’s certainly worth noting that the Space Jam website, which made its way into umpteen conference talks for being fabulous evidence of the web’s strength in backward compatibility, has been replaced. We could have saw that coming. Everything is … Read more about Space Jam, opens in new tab
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At first, there were flexboxes (the children of a display: flex container). If you wanted them to be visually separate, you had to use content justification (i.e. justify-content: space-between), margin trickery, or sometimes, both. Then along came grids (a … Read more about Gaps? Gasp!, opens in new tab
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At each company I’ve worked, we have had a split between time spent on Product initiatives and Engineering work. The percentages always changed, sometimes 70% Product, 30% Engineering, sometimes as much as a 50/50 split. The impetus is to make … Read more about Splitting Time Between Product and Engineering Efforts, opens in new tab
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I’ve been lucky enough to be a guest on some podcasts and at some events, so I thought I’d do a quick little round-up here! These Chronicle posts are just that: an opportunity to share some off-site stiff that I’ve … Read more about CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXXIX, opens in new tab
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Not sure about you, but I often wonder how to build a carousel component in such a way that you can easily dump a bunch of items into the component and get a nice working carousel — one that allows … Read more about A Super Flexible CSS Carousel, Enhanced With JavaScript Navigation, opens in new tab
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Uh, what’s @property? It’s a new CSS feature! It gives you superpowers. No joke, there is stuff that @property can do that unlocks things in CSS we’ve never been able to do before.While everything about @property is exciting, … Read more about Exploring @property and its Animating Powers, opens in new tab
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I really like the kind of tech writing where a fellow developer lays out some specific needs, tries out different tech to fulfill those needs, and documents how it went for them. That’s exactly what Andrew Walpole did here. … Read more about Through the pipeline: An exploration of front-end bundlers, opens in new tab
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In this video, I’m joined by Preety Kumar of Deque to take a look at their DevTools plugin for axe. Short story: this is an amazing plugin that helps you quickly find accessibility problems on any website, then helps … Read more about #204: Using the axe DevTools Web Accessibility Testing Browser Plugin, opens in new tab
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In this week’s news, Chrome tackles focus rings, we learn how to get “donut” scope, Global Privacy Control gets big-name adoption, it’s time to ditch pixels in media queries, and a snippet that prevents annoying form validation styling.… Read more about Weekly Platform News: Focus Rings, Donut Scope, More em Units, and Global Privacy Control, opens in new tab
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Jim Nielsen:I think you’ll find it quite refreshing to use React A) with a JSX-like syntax, and B) without any kind of build tooling.Refreshing indeed:… Read more about React Without Build Tools, opens in new tab
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UI components like spinners and skeleton loaders make waiting for a page load less frustrating and might even affect how loading times are perceived when used correctly. They won’t completely prevent users from abandoning the website, but they might encourage … Read more about A Bare-Bones Approach to Versatile and Reusable Skeleton Loaders, opens in new tab
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Cloudflare Pages is Jamstack hosting, meaning it’s a static file host that run your builds and lets you do dynamic things with JavaScript and services. You might normally think of Cloudflare as something you put in front of your site’s … Read more about #203: A First Look at Cloudflare Pages, opens in new tab
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Hey, we’re back with weekly updates about the browser landscape from Šime Vidas.In this week’s update, the CSS :not pseudo class can accept complex selectors, how to disable smooth scrolling when using “Find on page…” in Chrome, Safari’s … Read more about Weekly Platform News: The :not() pseudo-class, Video Media Queries, clip-path: path() Support, opens in new tab
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The way routing works in JavaScript is usually that you specify which relative URL pattern you want for which component to render. So for /about you want the <About /> component to render. Let’s take a look at how to … Read more about Lazy Load Routes in Vue with webpack Dynamic Comments, opens in new tab
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The mask-mode CSS property indicates whether the CSS mask layer image is treated as an alpha mask or a luminance mask.… Read more about mask-mode, opens in new tab
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Here’s a fun CSS trick to show your friends: a large title that switches from a solid color to knockout text as the background image behind it scrolls into place. And we can do it using plain ol’ HTML and … Read more about Going From Solid to Knockout Text on Scroll, opens in new tab
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I poked at a tweet from Ken Kocienda over the weekend: “Water not wet” reports man standing in ocean. https://t.co/5oUUdWARTUI don’t know Ken, so I feel a little bad for being harsh. … Read more about The Web is for More Than Document Viewing, opens in new tab
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A friend once contacted me asking if I had a way to dynamically change one HTML element into another within Vue’s template block. For instance, shifting a <div> element to a <span> element based on some criteria. The trick was … Read more about Dynamically Switching From One HTML Element to Another in Vue, opens in new tab
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Learn how to use the MeshSurfaceSampler in Three.js to create interesting effects.... Read more about Surface Sampling in Three.js, opens in new tab
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Learn how to recreate the direction-aware marquee menu hover effect seen on the website of K72 by Locomotive.... Read more about How to Code the K72 Marquee Hover Animation, opens in new tab
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Learn how to enhance your Three.js scenes with postprocessing via framebuffers.... Read more about Adding a Persistence Effect to Three.js Scenes, opens in new tab
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Learn how to create convincing transparent, glass-like and plastic-like materials in Three.js.... Read more about Creating the Effect of Transparent Glass and Plastic in Three.js, opens in new tab
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A quick tutorial on how to craft a fullscreen SVG crosshair mouse cursor with a special distortion hover effect.... Read more about How to Code a Crosshair Mouse Cursor with Distortion Hover Effect, opens in new tab
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Learn how to deform and color spheres to create an interesting animation with Three.js.... Read more about Twisted Colorful Spheres with Three.js, opens in new tab
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A behind-the-scenes look at making a CSS framework and a tutorial on how to build a website with it.... Read more about The Process of Building a CSS Framework, opens in new tab
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A tutorial explaining how to build a draggable and scrollable infinite circular gallery using WebGL with OGL and GLSL Shaders.... Read more about Creating an Infinite Circular Gallery using WebGL with OGL and GLSL Shaders, opens in new tab
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Learn how to use WebGL framebuffers via Three.js to create an interactive motion trail effect for text.... Read more about Creating a Typography Motion Trail Effect with Three.js, opens in new tab
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An in-depth tutorial on how to code 2D visuals using WebGL2.... Read more about Drawing 2D Metaballs with WebGL2, opens in new tab
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A practical introduction to the CSS Paint API with hands-on examples.... Read more about Drawing Graphics with the CSS Paint API, opens in new tab
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Learn how to create a WebGL-powered image slideshow animated using a single value.... Read more about Create an Abstract Image Slideshow with OGL, GLSL, and GSAP, opens in new tab
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Serverless, GraphQL, and DynamoDB are a powerful combination for building websites. The first two are well-loved, but DynamoDB is often misunderstood or actively avoided. It’s often dismissed by folks who consider it only worth the effort “at scale.”… Read more about How to Make GraphQL and DynamoDB Play Nicely Together, opens in new tab
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margin-inline is a shorthand property in CSS that sets an element’s margin-inline-start and margin-inline-end values, both of which are logical properties. It creates space around the element in the inline direction, which is determined by the element’s writing-mode, … Read more about margin-inline, opens in new tab
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The margin-inline-start property in CSS defines the amount of space along the outer starting edge of an element in the inline direction. It’s included in the CSS Logical Properties Level 1 specification, which is currently in Working Draft.… Read more about margin-inline-start, opens in new tab
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The margin-inline-end property in CSS defines the amount of space along the outer ending edge of an element in the inline direction. It’s included in the CSS Logical Properties Level 1 specification, which is currently in Working Draft.… Read more about margin-inline-end, opens in new tab
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In the not-too-distant past, even basic accordion-like interactions required JavaScript event listeners or some CSS… trickery. And, depending on the solution used, editing the underlying HTML could get complicated.Now, the <details> and <summary> elements (which combine to form … Read more about Two Issues Styling the Details Element and How to Solve Them, opens in new tab
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Louis Lazaris demonstrates a very simple way of doing this. Read more about Fading in a Page on Load with CSS & JavaScript, opens in new tab
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Terence Eden poked around with a way to do footnotes using the <details>/<summary> elements. I think it’s kind of clever. Rather than a hyperlink that jumps down to explain the footnote elsewhere, the details are right there next … Read more about A (terrible?) way to do footnotes in HTML, opens in new tab
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A handy setup to create a smooth scroll based GLSL animation using Three.js and GSAP.... Read more about Rock the Stage with a Smooth WebGL Shader Transformation on Scroll, opens in new tab
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With ES Modules, you can natively import other JavaScript. Like confetti, duh:That import statement is just gonna run. There is a pattern to do it conditionally though. It’s like this: Read more about Dynamic, Conditional Imports, opens in new tab
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Back when we released the v17 design (we’re on v18 now) of this site. I added html { scroll-behavior: smooth; } to the CSS. Right away, I got comments like this (just one example):… when you control+f or Read more about Fixing Smooth Scrolling with Find-on-Page, opens in new tab
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Learn how to create an interactive superhero-like illustration effect for the web using SVG filters and masks.... Read more about Superhero Animation Effect with SVG Filters, opens in new tab
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Learn to create beautiful, inspiring, and unique color palettes/combinations, all from the comfort of your favorite text editor!... Read more about Coloring With Code — A Programmatic Approach To Design, opens in new tab
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Go in-depth on the native dialog HTML element with this tutorial and learn how to implement a user-friendly, accessible dialog on your website.... Read more about How to Implement and Style the Dialog Element, opens in new tab
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A tutorial explaining how to build an infinite auto-scrolling gallery using WebGL with OGL and GLSL Shaders.... Read more about Creating an Infinite Auto-Scrolling Gallery using WebGL with OGL and GLSL Shaders, opens in new tab
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In part three of our series we’ll look at how to create more interesting shapes with trigonometry, and how to draw them with the Canvas API.... Read more about Trigonometry in CSS and JavaScript: Beyond Triangles, opens in new tab
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Are you looking to get started with 3D on the web? In this tutorial we’ll walk through creating a three-dimensional character using Three.js, adding some simple bu... Read more about Creating 3D Characters in Three.js, opens in new tab
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Learn how to animate CSS masks based on the cursor position using GSAP and custom properties for a unique spotlight effect.... Read more about Dynamic CSS Masks with Custom Properties and GSAP, opens in new tab
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Adding volumetric effects to a built-in Three.js shader.... Read more about Magical Marbles in Three.js, opens in new tab
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In the second part of this series on trigonometry, we’ll explore JavaScript trigonometric functions and learn how we can apply them to our CSS code.... Read more about Trigonometry in CSS and JavaScript: Getting Creative with Trigonometric Functions, opens in new tab
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In this series of articles we’ll get an overview of trigonometry, understand how it can be useful, and delve into some creative applications in CSS and JavaScript.... Read more about Trigonometry in CSS and JavaScript: Introduction to Trigonometry, opens in new tab
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A brief walk-through of how to create a mirror scene with react-three-fiber.... Read more about Creating Mirrors in React-Three-Fiber and Three.js, opens in new tab
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Learn how to simulate a cloud on a Three.js Sprite using React-Three-Fiber.... Read more about How to Create Procedural Clouds Using Three.js Sprites, opens in new tab
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A quick look at how an infinitely scrollable menu works based on a looping scroll illusion of cloned items.... Read more about An Infinitely Scrollable Vertical Menu, opens in new tab
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A short tutorial on how to recreate a letter stagger animation with GSAP and Splitting.js.... Read more about Making Stagger Reveal Animations for Text, opens in new tab
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Learn how to use instanced rendering and post-processing techniques to recreate a hypnotic looping animation with react-three-fiber.... Read more about Recreating a Dave Whyte Animation in React-Three-Fiber, opens in new tab
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Learn how to make a wave motion effect on an image with Three.js.... Read more about Create a Wave Motion Effect on an Image with Three.js, opens in new tab
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A tutorial on an experimental 3D layout technique for HTML elements with endless possibilities.... Read more about 3D Folding Layout Technique for HTML Elements, opens in new tab
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A simple tutorial on how to achieve an interactive mouseover/hover effect on images in some easy steps.... Read more about Interactive WebGL Hover Effects, opens in new tab
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Learn how to create a physics-based 3D cloth with Cannon.js and Three.js and use simplex noise to create a wind effect.... Read more about How to Create a Physics-based 3D Cloth with Cannon.js and Three.js, opens in new tab
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A short tutorial on how to achieve a motion hover effect on a background image grid.... Read more about How to Create a Motion Hover Effect for a Background Image Grid, opens in new tab
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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to project a texture onto an object in Three.js with some interesting examples.... Read more about Playing with Texture Projection in Three.js, opens in new tab
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Learn how to code up an interesting design with a cutout image look using CSS Grid and clip-path.... Read more about Crafting a Cutout Collage Layout with CSS Grid and Clip-path, opens in new tab
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Discover how to use Three.js to render kinetic 3D typography.... Read more about Kinetic Typography with Three.js, opens in new tab
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A tutorial on how to build a slider with an interesting parallax effect that you can either scroll or drag through.... Read more about Crafting a Scrollable and Draggable Parallax Slider, opens in new tab
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A tutorial on how to create a hover effect for a menu where images appear with an animation on each item.... Read more about Creating a Menu Image Animation on Hover, opens in new tab
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A tutorial on how to re-create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube animation using WebGL.... Read more about How to Create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube in WebGL, opens in new tab
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Discover how to use react-three-fiber and combine some common techniques to create a Three.js powered layout with shader effects.... Read more about Scroll, Refraction and Shader Effects in Three.js and React, opens in new tab
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