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Solved by CSS: Donuts Scopes
22.11.2024
Donut scoping addresses the challenge of preventing parent styles from leaking to nested content. Originating from a 2011 concept by Nicole Sullivan, the issue has evolved, culminating in 2024's @scope at-rule. This allows for more precise CSS styling, safeguarding content from unwanted inheritance...
Invoker Commands: Additional Ways to Work With Dialog, Popover… and More?
20.11.2024
Web browsers are experimenting with two HTML attributes — technically, they’re called “invoker commands” — that are designed to invoke popovers, dialogs, and further down the line, all kinds of actions without writing JavaScript. Although, if you do reach for JavaScript, the new attributes come...
Complete CSS Course
19.11.2024
Do you subscribe to Piccalilli? You should. If you're reading that name for the first time, that would be none other than Andy Bell running the ship and he's reimagined the site from the ground-up after coming out of hibernation this year. You're likely familiar with Andy's great writing here...
Anchoreum: A New Game for Learning Anchor Positioning
12.11.2024
You've played Flexbox Froggy before, right? Or maybe Grid Garden? They're both absolute musts for learning the basics of modern CSS layout using Flexbox and CSS Grid. Thomas Park made those and he's back with another game: Anchoreum.
Anchoreum: A New Game for Learning Anchor Positioning originally...
Tim Brown: Flexible Typesetting is now yours, for free
11.11.2024
Another title from A Book Apart has been re-released for free. The latest? Tim Brown's Flexible Typesetting. I may not be the utmost expert on typography and its best practices but I do remember reading this book (it's still on the shelf next to me!) thinking maybe, just maybe, I might be able...
The Different (and Modern) Ways to Toggle Content
8.11.2024
Let’s spend some time looking at disclosures, the Dialog API, the Popover API, and more. We’ll look at the right time to use each one depending on your needs. Modal or non-modal? JavaScript or pure HTML/CSS? Not sure? Don’t worry, we’ll go into all that.
The Different (and Modern) Ways...
Popping Comments With CSS Anchor Positioning and View-Driven Animations
6.11.2024
The State of CSS 2024 survey wrapped up and the results are interesting, as always. Even though each section is worth analyzing, we are usually most hyped about the section on the most used CSS features. And if you …
Popping Comments With CSS Anchor Positioning and View-Driven Animations...
Fluid Everything Else
5.11.2024
We can apply the concept of fluid typography to almost anything. This way we can have a layout that fluidly changes with the size of its parent container. Few users will ever see the transition, but they will all appreciate the results. Honestly, they will.
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Web-Slinger.css: Like Wow.js But With CSS-y Scroll Animations
1.11.2024
Can we recreate a JavaScript library for scrolling animations with a modern CSS approach using CSS Scroll-Driven Animations? Yes. Yes, we can.
Web-Slinger.css: Like Wow.js But With CSS-y Scroll Animations originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should...
State of CSS 2024 Results
30.10.2024
The results from this year's survey are fairly fresh off the presses. We took a little time to sit with them and jot down some things we noticed and found interesting.
State of CSS 2024 Results originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get...
Tooltip Best Practices
29.10.2024
What are tooltips, exactly? There's two kinds and the one you use has implications on the user experience, as Zell illustrates in this explainer on best practices.
Tooltip Best Practices originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
Come to the light-dark() Side
25.10.2024
You’d be forgiven for thinking coding up both a dark and a light mode at once is a lot of work. You have to remember @media queries based on prefers-color-scheme as well as extra complications that arise when letting visitors …
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Left Half and Right Half Layout – Many Different Ways
25.10.2024
A whole bunch of years ago, we posted on this idea here on CSS-Tricks. We figured it was time to update that and do the subject justice.
Imagine a scenario where you need to split a layout in half. Content …
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You can use text-wrap: balance; on icons
24.10.2024
Terence Eden on using text-wrap: balance for more than headings:
But the name is, I think, slightly misleading. It doesn’t only work on text. It will work on any content. For example – I have a row of icons at
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Clarifying the Relationship Between Popovers and Dialogs
23.10.2024
The difference between Popovers (i.e., the popover attribute) and Dialogs (i.e., both the <dialog element and the dialog accessible role) is incredibly confusing — so much that many articles (like this, this, and this) have tried to …
Clarifying the Relationship Between Popovers...
Clamp it! VS Code extension
23.10.2024
There’s a lot of math behind fluid typography. CSS does make the math a lot easier these days, but even if you’re comfortable with that, writing the full declaration can be verbose and tough to remember. I know I often …
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Unleash the Power of Scroll-Driven Animations
21.10.2024
I’m utterly behind in learning about scroll-driven animations apart from the “reading progress bar” experiments all over CodePen. Well, I’m not exactly “green” on the topic; we’ve published a handful of articles on it including this neat-o one by...
Combining forces, GSAP & Webflow!
18.10.2024
Change can certainly be scary whenever a beloved, independent software library becomes a part of a larger organization. I’m feeling a bit more excitement than concern this time around, though.
If you haven’t heard, GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) is teaming …
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Mastering theme.json: You might not need CSS
18.10.2024
I totally get the goal here: make CSS more modular and scalable in WordPress. Put all your global WordPress theme styles in a single file, including variations. JSON offers a nicely structured syntax that’s easily consumable by JavaScript, thereby allowing …
Mastering theme.json:...
Solving Background Overflow With Inherited Border Radii
17.10.2024
One of the interesting (but annoying) things about CSS is the background of children’s elements can bleed out of the border radius of the parent element. Here’s an example of a card with an inner element. If the inner element …
Solving Background Overflow With Inherited Border Radii...