When to Avoid the text-decoration Shorthand Property
25.2.2022
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 …
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Manuel Matuzovic’s CSS Specificity Demo
25.2.2022
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.
One of the ways to help get …
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My white whale: A use case for will-change
24.2.2022
 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
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Explain the First 10 Lines of Twitter’s Source Code to Me
24.2.2022
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 …
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Superior Image Optimization: An Ideal Solution Using Gatsby & ImageEngine
24.2.2022
(This is a sponsored post.)
In recent years, the Jamstack methodology for building websites has become increasingly popular. Performance, scalable, and secure, it’s easy to see why it’s becoming an attractive way to build websites for developers.
GatsbyJS is …
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Collective #700
24.2.2022
A Complete Guide to CSS Cascade Layers * Painting SVG Paths with Masks * MonoLisa * Shaders and Gradients
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CSS Database Queries? Sure We Can!
23.2.2022
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 …
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5 Accessibility Quick Wins You Can Implement Today
23.2.2022
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 …
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Before I go: When it comes to complaining about web browsers
22.2.2022
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
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Reliably Send an HTTP Request as a User Leaves a Page
22.2.2022
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 …
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Repetition Image Hover Effects
22.2.2022
A simple and fun hover effect with repeated image layers that get scaled up and down.
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A Complete Guide to CSS Cascade Layers
21.2.2022
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 …
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