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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...
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Comes Clean About Piss Scandal
11.11.2024
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has reached the level of cultural ubiquity where everyone wants to know everything about him, even the stuff no one but him and his urologist should know. A little over seven months after The Wrap reported, amongst other allegations, that one of the most successful actors...
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...
‘Ross Is Coming Home’: Ulbricht’s Family Rejoices as Trump Plans to Fulfill Commutation Pledge
9.11.2024
With Donald Trump now set to become the 47th U.S. president, Ross Ulbricht’s family took to social media on Nov. 7 to share a long-awaited update: “Ross will be coming home in January.” Throughout the 2024 election, Trump pledged to grant Ulbricht’s sentence commutation, promising his release...
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...
Trump Family-Backed Crypto Project Makes $1M Gain in ETH Following Tame Token Sale
7.11.2024
World Liberty Financial, the decentralized finance (DeFi) project backed by the family of U.S. presidential elect Donald Trump, has made $1 million in unrealized gains following a muted token sale last month
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 …
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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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TikTok Thinks Marge And The Rest Of The Simpsons Family Are Actually Black
3.11.2024
Fox’s popular animated series “The Simpsons” has been on the air for 36 seasons, which means viewers have plenty of time to analyze and examine the show. Longtime fans have theories on everything from Springfield existing in its own space-time bubble, to Marge’s family financially supporting them...
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
1inch, Bruce Lee family launch ‘seriousLee’ DeFi campaign
28.10.2024
1inch has teamed up with the Bruce Lee Family Company for the “Take crypto seriousLee” campaign, merging DeFi and Lee’s legacy to shift public perception of cryptocurrencies
1inch, Bruce Lee family launch ‘seriousLee’ DeFi campaign
28.10.2024
1inch has teamed up with the Bruce Lee Family Company for the “Take crypto seriousLee” campaign, merging DeFi and Lee’s legacy to shift public perception of cryptocurrencies
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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