Grid Level 2 and Subgrid
8.5.2018
I find the concept of subgrid a little hard to wrap my mind around.
I do understand the idea that we want to use nested semantic markup as we like and have elements participate in one grid so we don't have to flatten our markup just for layout reasons. But that is largely handled by display:...
Decorating lines of text with box-decoration-break
8.5.2018
An institution’s motto, an artist’s intro, a company’s tagline, a community’s principle, a service’s greeting… all of them have one thing in common: they’re one brief paragraph displayed on a website’s home page — or at least the about page!
It’s rare that just one word or one line of text...
Vertically Centering with Flexbox
8.5.2018
Vertically centering sibling child contents is a task we’ve long needed on the web but has always seemed way more difficult than it should be. We initially used tables to accomplish the task, then moved on to CSS and JavaScript tricks because table layout was horribly inefficient —...
VS Code Can Do That?
7.5.2018
Clever microsite from Burke Holland and Sarah Drasner that highlights some of VS Code's coolest features. All fifteen of them are pretty darn cool. Here's a few other compelling features I've seen people use/love:
There is a terminal right in there, so you don't need a separate app.
The GitLens...
Microsites for Case Studies
7.5.2018
A lot of y'all have personal sites. Personal sites with portfolios. Or you work for or own an agency where showing off the work you do is arguably even more important. Often the portfolio area of a site is the most fretted and hard to pull off. Do you link to the live projects? Screenshots?...
Collective #413
7.5.2018
Brusher * Pin Screen * Impact * Inspecting Animations in DevTools * My most useful RegExp trick * No Lick * illustration.tools
Collective #413 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
React and autofocus
7.5.2018
While I love ReactJS, I can say that I sometimes find interactions that were easy during the pre-ReactJS are annoyingly difficult or at least “indirect”. One example is properly ensuring that a given <input> element gets focused when a button in a different component...
Build A Scroll-Spy Navbar (Solution to Code Challenge #9)
7.5.2018
Last week we put out a challenge to build out a scroll-spy navbar. Scroll-spy navbars are great and highlights th
CSS Environment Variables
4.5.2018
We were all introduced to the env() function in CSS when all that drama about "The Notch" and the iPhone X was going down. The way that Apple landed on helping us move content away from those "unsafe" areas was to provide us essentially hard-coded variables to use:
padding:
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Script & Style Show: Episode 9: What’s in the News
4.5.2018
In this episode: David reveals his tree-falling-into-house nightmare, but quickly moves onto recent news, like the massive release of Dojo 2, EU privacy, service workers landing in all major browsers (finally Edge!), this tweet, and more!  
The post Script & Style Show: Episode...
Inspecting Animations in DevTools
4.5.2018
I stumbled upon the Animation panel in Chrome’s DevTools the other day and almost jumped out of my seat with pure joy. Not only was I completely unaware that such a thing exists, but it was better than what I could’ve hoped: it lets you control and manipulate CSS animations and visualize...
WDRL — Edition 227: Print CSS, Subgrids, EdgeHTML 17 and Bad Design Choices
4.5.2018
Hey,
it’s nice to see people caring about less obvious problems in web development such as providing proper CSS so that users can print the page or parts of the website. Whenever I have to print an invoice, I’m not physically printing it but I save it as PDF file. Creating print stylesheets...