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WDRL — Edition 299: Parent selectors, JS concepts, Custom Elements, debugging page reloads and too smart SPAs
7.5.2022
Hey,
this week’s links are quite interesting: A couple of web standard (proposals) that would make CSS easier again like CSS Toggles, easy progressive enhancement for form data using the web platform. But also things like a huge list of JavaScript concepts to enhance your knowledge, or simple...
WDRL — Edition 295: CSS Parent Selectors, Interoperability of the web, web3 reflections and sanitizing.
1.2.2022
Hey,
It is January February already, and it feels like time flies. In the world of technology, there are always so many news, trends, and possible distractions. On top of that, we already have so much work to do, projects to finish, and people to please. It is easy to feel empty or get burned out....
Meet `:has`, A Native CSS Parent Selector
12.7.2021
The reasons that are often cited that make container queries difficult or impossible is things like infinite loops—e.g. changing the width of an element, invalidating a container query, which changes the width again, which makes the container query take effect, …
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Can I :has()
4.6.2021
I just joked that we’re basically getting everything we want in CSS super fast (mostly referring to container queries, my gosh, can you imagine they are actually coming?). Now we might actually get parent selectors?! As in .parent:has(.child) { …
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What’s Missing from CSS?
21.11.2020
The survey results from the State of CSS aren’t out yet, but they made this landing page that randomly shows you what one person wrote to answer that question. Just clicking the reload button a bunch, I get the sense that the top answers are:
Container Queries
Parent...
A Use Case for a Parent Selector
31.12.2019
Having a "parent selector" in CSS is mentioned regularly as something CSS could really use. I feel like I've had that thought plenty of times myself, but then when I ask my brain for a use case, I find it hard to think of one. Well, I just had one so I thought I'd document it here.
A classic...