Centering in CSS
1.1.2021
Adam Argyle has a post over on web.dev digging into this. He starts with the assumption that you need to do vertical centering and horizontal centering. It’s that vertical centering that has traditionally been a bit trickier for folks, particularly …
The post Centering in CSS appeared...
Thank You (2020 Edition)
31.12.2020
Heck of a year, eh? Like we do ever year, I’d like to give you a huge thanks for reading CSS-Tricks, and recap the year. More downs than ups, all told. Here at CSS-Tricks, it was more of a …
The post Thank You (2020 Edition) appeared first on CSS-Tricks.
You can support CSS-Tricks...
Give your Eleventy Site Superpowers with Environment Variables
31.12.2020
Eleventy is increasing in popularity because it allows us to create nice, simple websites, but also — because it’s so developer-friendly. We can build large-scale, complex projects with it, too. In this tutorial we’re going to demonstrate that expansive capability …
The post Give your...
A font-display setting for slow connections
31.12.2020
Me, I really dislike FOUT. I like that it’s an option, because not displaying text quickly on the web is no good. I know font-display: swap; is popular because it’s good for performance, but that FOUT stuff pains me. Matt …
The post A font-display setting for slow connections...
3 Steps to Enable Client Hints on Your Image CDN
31.12.2020
The goal of Client Hints is to provide a framework for a browser when informing the server about the context in which a web experience is provided.
HTTP Client Hints are a proposed set of HTTP Header Fields for proactive
…
The post 3 Steps to Enable Client Hints on Your Image CDN appeared...
A Look Back at 2020: Roundup of Codrops Resources
31.12.2020
2020 is almost over. Join us for a look back on some of our articles, tutorials and experiments.
The post A Look Back at 2020: Roundup of Codrops Resources appeared first on Codrops
CSS Individual Transform Properties in Safari Technology Preview
30.12.2020
The WebKit blog details how to use individual CSS Transform properties in the latest version of Safari Technology Preview. This brings the browser in line with the CSS Transforms Module Level 2 spec, which breaks out the translate(), …
The post CSS Individual Transform Properties in Safari...
Cloudinary Tricks for Video
30.12.2020
Creating video is time consuming. A well-made 5-minute video can take hours to plan, record, and edit — and that’s before we start talking about making that video consistent with all the other videos on your site.
When we took …
The post Cloudinary Tricks for Video appeared...
The Rules of Margin Collapse
30.12.2020
Josh Comeau covers the concept of margin collapsing:
This idea might sound simple, but if you’ve been writing CSS for a while, you’ve almost certainly been surprised when margins either don’t collapse, or they collapse in weird and unexpected ways.
…
The post The Rules...
Design v18
29.12.2020
I redesigned the site! I can never think about the word redesign without also thinking about realigning, from Cameron Moll’s seminal article. I did not start from nothing. This design wasn’t a blank design canvas and empty code …
The post Design v18 appeared first...
Automatic Social Share Images
29.12.2020
It’s a pretty low-effort thing to get a big fancy link preview on social media. Toss a handful of specific <meta> tags on a URL and you get a big image-title-description thing. Here’s Twitter’s version of an article on this …
The post Automatic Social Share Images...
Chapter 6: Web Design
29.12.2020
Previously in web history…
After the first websites demonstrate the commercial and aesthetic potential of the web, the media industry floods the web with a surge of new content. Amateur webzines — which define and voice and tone unique to …
The post Chapter 6: Web Design appeared first...