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“If” CSS Gets Inline Conditionals
9.7.2024
A few sirens went off a couple of weeks ago when the CSS Working Group (CSSWG) resolved to add an if() conditional to the CSS Values Module Level 5 specification. It was Lea Verou’s X post that same day that …
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How I Made an Icon System Out of CSS Custom Properties
22.9.2022
SVG is the best format for icons on a website, there is no doubt about that. It allows you to have sharp icons no matter the screen pixel density, you can change the styles of the SVG on hover …
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Making a Real-Time Clock With a Conic Gradient Face
19.9.2022
Gradients have been a part of the CSS spectrum for quite some time now. We see a lot of radial and linear gradients in a lot of projects, but there is one type of gradient that seems to be a …
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Interpolating Numeric CSS Variables
30.8.2022
We can make variables in CSS pretty easily:
:root {
--scale: 1;
}
And we can declare them on any element:
.thing {
transform: scale(--scale);
}
Even better for an example like this is applying the variable on a user …
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Building an Interactive Sparkline Graph with D3
29.3.2022
Learn how to build an interactive line graph using the D3 JavaScript library and CSS custom properties to create different color schemes.
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Multi-Value CSS Properties With Optional Custom Property Values
11.2.2022
Imagine you have an element with a multi-value CSS property, such as transform: optional custom property values:
.el {
transform: translate(100px) scale(1.5) skew(5deg);
}
Now imagine you don’t always want all the transform values to be applied, so some …
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How to Make a Pure CSS 3D Package Toggle
12.1.2022
You know how you can get cardboard boxes that come totally flat? You fold ‘em up and tape ‘em to make them into a useful box. Then when it’s time to recycle them, you cut them back apart to flatten …
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Don’t Fight the Cascade, Control It!
10.1.2022
If you’re disciplined and make use of the inheritance that the CSS cascade provides, you’ll end up writing less CSS. But because our styles often comes from all kinds of sources — and can be a pain to structure and …
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Honor prefers-color-scheme in the CSS Paint API with Custom Properties
27.12.2021
One of the coolest things I’ve been messing with in the last couple years is the CSS Paint API. I love it. I did a talk on it, and made a little gallery of my own paint worklets…
The surprising behavior of !important in CSS custom property values
17.12.2021
Huh! I did not realize that CSS custom properties had their own resolution behavior for how !important works in their values. Uh, despite writing a guide about them. 😬 But hey it’s now updated.
Stefan Judis documents it clearly. …
Standardizing Focus Styles With CSS Custom Properties
10.12.2021
Take two minutes right now and visit your current project in a browser. Then, using only the Tab key, you should be able to navigate between interactive elements including buttons, links, and form elements.
If you are sighted, you should…
Open Props (and Custom Properties as a System)
6.12.2021
Perhaps the most basic and obvious use of CSS custom properties is design tokens. Colors, fonts, spacings, timings, and other atomic bits of design that you can pull from as you design a site. If you pretty much only pull …
Parallax Powered by CSS Custom Properties
19.11.2021
Good friend Kent C. Dodds has recently dropped his new website which had a lot of work go into it. I was fortunate enough that Kent reached out a while back and asked if I could come up with some …
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Color Alpha Anywhere
16.11.2021
In my “Different Degrees of Custom Property Usage” article, I noted a situation about colors and CSS custom properties where I went “too far” with breaking up HSL color values. Breaking every single color into its H, S, and L parts …
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Different Degrees of Custom Property Usage
14.10.2021
One way to work with Custom Properties is to think of them as design tokens. Colors, spacings, fonts, and whatnot. You set them at the root of the page and use them throughout your CSS. Very useful, and the classic …
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Collective #676
26.8.2021
Imba * Pop * The Big Gotcha With Custom Properties * GitNFT
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The Big Gotcha With Custom Properties
19.8.2021
I’ve seen this confuse more than a handful of people recently, including myself, so I’m making sure it’s written down.
Let’s chuck a couple of custom properties into CSS:
html {
--color-1: red;
--color-2: blue;
}
Let’s use them right …
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Exploring the CSS Paint API: Image Fragmentation Effect
9.8.2021
In my previous article, I created a fragmentation effect using CSS mask and custom properties. It was a neat effect but it has one drawback: it uses a lot of CSS code (generated using Sass). This time I am …
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Efficient Infinite Utility Helpers Using Inline CSS Custom Properties and calc()
6.8.2021
I recently wrote a very basic Sass loop that outputs several padding and margin utility classes. Nothing fancy, really, just a Sass map with 11 spacing values, looped over to create classes for both padding and margin on each side. …
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Using Absolute Value, Sign, Rounding and Modulo in CSS Today
28.7.2021
For quite a while now, the CSS spec has included a lot of really useful mathematical functions, such as trigonometric functions (sin(), cos(), tan(), asin(), acos(), atan(), atan2()), exponential functions (…
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