Things You Can Do With CSS Today
17.2.2021
Some nice coverage from Andy about CSS things that are truly new. If you haven’t looked at new things in CSS in, say, a year, I’d bet pretty much all of this will be new to you. A lot of …
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CSS Switch-Case Conditions
17.2.2021
CSS is yet to have a switch rule or conditional if, aside from the specific nature of @media queries and some deep trickery with CSS custom properties. Let’s have a look at why it would be useful if we …
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Use CSS Clamp to create a more flexible wrapper utility
17.2.2021
I like Andy’s idea here:
.wrapper {
width: clamp(16rem, 90vw, 70rem);
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
padding-left: 1.5rem;
padding-right: 1.5rem;
}
Normally I’d just set a max-width there, but as Andy says:
This becomes a slight issue in mid-sized viewports, such...
Ideas for CSS Button Hover Animations
17.2.2021
Some inspiration for button hover animations using CSS only.
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Front of the Front / Back of the Front
17.2.2021
People really latched onto Brad’s framing. And for good reason. Front-end development has gotten so wide scoping that there are specialists inside of it. Two years ago, I cut it down the middle and now Brad is putting …
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How to Create a Shrinking Header on Scroll Without JavaScript
16.2.2021
Imagine a header of a website that is nice and thick, with plenty of padding on top and bottom of the content. As you scroll down, it shrinks up on itself, reducing some of that padding, making more screen real …
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Maximally optimizing image loading for the web in 2021
16.2.2021
Malte Ubl’s list for:
8 image loading optimization techniques to minimize both the bandwidth used for loading images on the web and the CPU usage for image display.
Fluid width images in CSS, not forgetting the height and width attributes
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The web didn’t change; you did
16.2.2021
I love this piece from Remy Sharp where he argues that the web didn’t get more complicated over the last 20 years, despite what we might think:
Web development did not change. Web development grew. There are more options now,
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Netlify
16.2.2021
High five to Netlify for the ❥ sponsorship. Netlify is a great place to host your static (or not-so-static!) website because of the great speed, DX, pricing, and feature set. I’ve thought of Netlify a bunch of times just in …
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The Top Blogging Platforms of the Year (2021)
16.2.2021
Deciding to start a blog, whether it be for personal or professional use, is a great idea. With the rise in internet activity, especially on mobile devices, it makes...
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Using AbortController as an Alternative for Removing Event Listeners
15.2.2021
The idea of an “abortable” fetch came to life in 2017 when AbortController was released. That gives us a way to bail on an API request initiated by fetch() — even multiple calls — whenever we want.
Here’s a super …
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Beautiful accessibility with Floating Focus
15.2.2021
Imagine if your :focus styles animated from element to element as you tab through a site. Like the focus ring up and flew across the page to the next element. The spirit of it is similar to smooth scrolling: it’s …
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