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Converting Speech to PDF with NextJS and ExpressJS
4.8.2022
With speech interfaces becoming more of a thing, it’s worth exploring some of the things we can do with speech interactions. Like, what if we could say something and have that transcribed and pumped out as a downloadable PDF?
Well, …
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Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers
2.8.2022
Dave Rupert with some modern CSS magic that tackles one of those classic conundrums: what happens when the CSS for component is unable to handle the content we throw at it?
The specific situation is when a layout grid expects …
Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers...
Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement Powers
1.8.2022
When working with CSS Grid, the first thing to do is to set display: grid on the element that we want to be become a grid container. Then we explicitly define the grid using a combination of grid-template-columns, grid-template-rows…
Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement...
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 …
Scroll Shadows? Pure...
Recreating MDN’s Truncated Text Effect
28.7.2022
It’s no secret that MDN rolled out a new design back in March. It’s gorgeous! And there are some sweet CSS-y gems in it that are fun to look at. One of those gems is how card components handle truncated …
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Why I Chose Angular to Build a URL Shortener
22.7.2022
URL Shorteners are tools we use to make links shorter than they actually are. With a URL Shortener, you can transform a long link (maybe for a registration form or article) into a shorter version.
Behind the scenes, the long …
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Roundup of Recent Document Outline Chatter
21.7.2022
It’s not everyday that HTML headings are the topic de jour, but my folder of saved links is accumulating articles about the recently merged removal of the document outline algorithm in the WHATWG Living Standard.
First off, you should know …
Roundup of Recent Document Outline Chatter...
Logical Properties for Useful Shorthands
20.7.2022
Michelle Barker with my favorite sorta blog post: short, practical, and leaves you with a valuable nugget for your time. Here, she gets into logical property shorthands in CSS, particularly those that set lengths just on a single axis, …
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How stroke-dasharray Patterns Work
15.7.2022
Say you have a line in SVG:
<svg<line x1="0" y1="30" x2="500" y2="30" stroke-color="#f8a100" /</svg
You can use the stroke-dasharray property in CSS to make dashes:
line {
stroke-dasharray: 5;
}
That 5 value is a relative unit based …
How stroke-dasharray Patterns...
Office Spaces
14.7.2022
I think it’s super timely that Jim Nielson wrote about his office space the other day. My family recently re-rooted in Colorado and I was up late last night setting up my desk and everything around it. So late, in …
Office Spaces originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get...
React Hooks: The Deep Cuts
13.7.2022
Hooks are reusable functions. They allow you to use state and other features (e.g. lifecycle methods and so on) without writing a class. Hook functions let us “hook into” the React state lifecycle using functional components, allowing us to manipulate …
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In Praise of Shadows
12.7.2022
Our dear friend Robin has a new essay called In Praise of Shadows. Now, before you hop over there looking for nuggets on CSS box shadows, text shadows, and shadow filters… this is not that. It’s an essay …
In Praise of Shadows originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should...
Technical Writing for Developers
11.7.2022
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C++, Dart — there are so many programming languages out there and you may even be totally fluent in several of them! But as we aim to write more and better code, the way we …
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Collective Nouns for the Web
1.7.2022
Melanie Sumner has this super-specific collection of web-related nouns for describing a group or set of something. You know how there’s a school or fish or a herd of cows? Same sort of thing, but for funny web jargon.
Things …
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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...
Bunny Fonts
30.6.2022
Bunny Fonts bills itself as the “privacy-first web font platform designed to put privacy back into the internet.”According to its FAQ:
With a zero-tracking and no-logging policy, Bunny Fonts helps you stay fully GDPR compliant and puts your user’s personal
…
Bunny Fonts...
Text-overflow: ellipsis considered harmful
30.6.2022
Eric Eggert:
There are a few legitimate use cases for this technique. For example, you might have a table with titles and descriptions. To preserve more space for the title, you constrain the description to one line on small
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How I Chose an Animation Library for My Solitaire Game
29.6.2022
There is an abundance of both CSS and JavaScript libraries for animation libraries out there. So many, in fact, that choosing the right one for your project can seem impossible. That’s the situation I faced when I decided to build …
How I Chose an Animation Library for My Solitaire...
Help Shape the Future of CSS-Tricks!
28.6.2022
Hey, so it’s been a minute since we announced that CSS-Tricks is now part of the DigitalOcean family. Things are pretty much business as usual and hopefully it feels that way to you, too. Now that we’re getting settled, we’re …
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My Dumbest CSS Mistakes
28.6.2022
We all make mistakes in our code. It happens! I know if I had one of those “Days Since Last Mistake” signs hanging over my desk, a big ol’ goose egg would be hovering above me all the time. It …
My Dumbest CSS Mistakes originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get...