Designing for Long-Form Articles
10.8.2022
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 …
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Specify Node Versions with .nvmrc
9.8.2022
I’ve heavily promoted nvm, a Node.js version manager, over the years. Having a tool to manage multiple versions of a language interpreter has been so useful, especially due to the complexity of Node.js package management. One tip I like to give new developers is adding a .nvmrc file to their...
Committing CSS Crimes
9.8.2022
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, …
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Zooming Images in a Grid Layout
8.8.2022
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 …
Zooming Images in a Grid Layout originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
How to Inject a Global with Web Extensions in Manifest V3
8.8.2022
For those of you not familiar with the world of web extension development, a storm is brewing with Chrome. Google will stop support for manifest version 2, which is what the vast majority of web extensions use. Manifest version 3 sees many changes but the largest change is moving from persistent...
How I Added Scroll Snapping To My Twitter Timeline
5.8.2022
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, …
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Actually, the San Francisco Typeface Does Ship as a Variable Font
4.8.2022
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…
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Converting Speech to PDF with NextJS and ExpressJS
4.8.2022
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, …
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Collective #723
4.8.2022
:has(): the family selector * Vertex Shader Displacement * Svelvet
Large Image to Content Page Transition
3.8.2022
A simple scroll effect and page transition inspired by Vitalii Burhonskyi's Dribbble shot
How Plugins Enhance The WYSIWYG Editing Experience (Sponsored)
2.8.2022
WYSIWYG editors are one of the core components of any content management system (CMS). A well-coded, feature-filled WYSIWYG HTML editor can distinguish between a CMS users love and one they can’t stand.  While all WYSIWYG editors have a set of basic functionality, the power of plugins...
Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers
2.8.2022
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 …
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