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CSS Tricks That Use Only One Gradient
11.10.2024
CSS gradients have been so long that there’s no need to rehash what they are and how to use them. You have surely encountered them at some point in your front-end journey, and if you follow me, you also …
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Different Ways to Get CSS Gradient Shadows
10.2.2023
It’s a question I hear asked quite often: Is it possible to create shadows from gradients instead of solid colors? There is no specific CSS property that does this (believe me, I’ve looked) and any blog post you find about …
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A Fancy Hover Effect For Your Avatar
3.2.2023
Do you know that kind of effect where someone’s head is poking through a circle or hole? The famous Porky Pig animation where he waves goodbye while popping out of a series of red rings is the perfect example, and …
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Animated Background Stripes That Transition on Hover
8.12.2022
How often to do you reach for the CSS background-size property? If you’re like me — and probably lots of other front-end folks — then it’s usually when you background-size: cover an image to fill the space of an entire …
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Making Static Noise From a Weird CSS Gradient Bug
18.11.2022
What I will be doing here is kind of an experiment to explore tricks that leverage a bug with the way CSS gradients handle sub-pixel rendering to create a static noise effect — like you might see on a TV with no signal.
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Some Links About CSS Gradients
2.11.2022
Every once in a while, the blogging zeitgiest seems to coalesce around a certain topic and it’s like the saved articles in my bookmarks folder are having a conversation. The conversation sitting in there now is all about CSS Gradients …
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Fancy Image Decorations: Outlines and Complex Animations
28.10.2022
We’ve spent the last two articles in this three-part series playing with gradients to make really neat image decorations using nothing but the <img> element. In this third and final piece, we are going to explore more techniques using the …
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Fancy Image Decorations: Masks and Advanced Hover Effects
21.10.2022
Welcome to Part 2 of this three-part series! We are still decorating images without any extra elements and pseudo-elements. I hope you already took the time to digest Part 1 because we will continue working with a lot of gradients …
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Fancy Image Decorations: Single Element Magic
14.10.2022
As the title says, we are going to decorate images! There’s a bunch of other articles out there that talk about this, but what we’re covering here is quite a bit different because it’s more of a challenge. The challenge? …
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CSS Checkerboard Background… But With Rounded Corners and Hover Styles
20.9.2022
On one hand, creating simple checkered backgrounds with CSS is easy. On the other hand, though, unless we are one of the CSS-gradient-ninjas, we are kind of stuck with basic patterns.
At least that’s what I thought while staring at …
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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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Scroll Shadows? Pure CSS Parallax? Game Back On.
29.7.2022
Chris calls scroll shadows one his favorite CSS-Tricks of all time. Lea Verou popularized the pure CSS approach using four layered background gradients with some clever background-attachment magic. The result is a slick scrolling interaction that gives users a hint …
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Single Element Loaders: Going 3D!
1.7.2022
For this fourth and final article of our little series on single-element loaders, we are going to explore 3D patterns. When creating a 3D element, it’s hard to imagine that just one HTML element is enough to simulate something like...
Single Element Loaders: The Dots
17.6.2022
We’re looking at loaders in this series. More than that, we’re breaking down some common loader patterns and how to re-create them with nothing more than a single div. So far, we’ve picked apart the classic spinning loader. Now, …
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Collective #716
16.6.2022
Untools * Patterns * CSS Shadow Gradients * In circles and spheres * Better scrolling through modern CSS
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Single Element Loaders: The Spinner
10.6.2022
Making CSS-only loaders is one of my favorite tasks. It’s always satisfying to look at those infinite animations. And, of course, there are lots of techniques and approaches to make them — no need to look further than CodePen to …
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Add a CSS Lens Flare to Photos for a Bright Touch
12.4.2022
I’m a big fan of movies by J.J. Abrams. I enjoy their tight plots, quippy dialog, and of course: anamorphic lens flares. Filmmakers like Abrams use lens flare to add a dash of ‘homemade’ realism to their movies, …
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Collective #700
24.2.2022
A Complete Guide to CSS Cascade Layers * Painting SVG Paths with Masks * MonoLisa * Shaders and Gradients
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Using Different Color Spaces for Non-Boring Gradients
7.2.2022
A little gradient generator tool from Tom Quinonero. You’d think fading one color to another would be an obvious, simple, solved problem — it’s actually anything but!
Tom’s generator does two things that help make a gradient better:
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Fancy CSS Borders Using Masks
26.1.2022
Have you ever tried to make CSS borders in a repeating zig-zag pattern? Like where a colored section of a website ends and another differently colored section begins — not with a straight line, but angled zig zags, rounded humps, …
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