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An Introduction to Web Components
18.3.2019
Front-end development moves at a break-neck pace. This is made evident by the myriad articles, tutorials, and Twitter threads bemoaning the state of what once was a fairly simple tech stack. In this article, I’ll discuss why Web Components are a great tool to deliver high-quality user experiences...
Web Standards Meet User-Land: Using CSS-in-JS to Style Custom Elements
15.3.2019
The popularity of CSS-in-JS has mostly come from the React community, and indeed many CSS-in-JS libraries are React-specific. However, Emotion, the most popular library in terms of npm downloads, is framework agnostic.
Using the shadow DOM is common when creating custom elements, but there’s...
Designing An Aspect Ratio Unit For CSS
13.3.2019
Rachel Andrew says that the CSS Working Group designed an aspect ration unit at a recent meeting. The idea is to find an elegant solution to those times when we want the height of an element to be calculated in response to the width of the element, or vice versa.
Say, for example, we have a grid...
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Implementing a Custom Filter
13.3.2019
In JavaScript, the .filter() function is often used to loop through an array and extract the elements that pass a certain condition specified in a callback function.
Ever wonder
The Dark Side of the Grid
10.3.2019
Manuel Matuzovic makes the point that in order to use CSS grid in some fairly simple markup scenarios, we might be tempted to flatten our HTML to make sure all the elements we need to can participate on the grid. What we need is subgrid and non-buggy display: contents;, so I'd like to think in...
WDRL — Edition 260: Company Culture, Cache Control, Encryption By Developers And Tracking Focused Elements.
6.3.2019
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Let’s think about our own take on how we do work today. If we receive a task to do, are we asking for more details, are we figuring out how to do it ourselves or just following the task’s details. If we do only the latter, this of course will get it done. But it’ll also increase the risk...
Text Wrapping & Inline Pseudo Elements
27.2.2019
I love posts like this. It's just about adding a little icon to the end of certain links, but it ends up touching on a million things along the way. I think this is an example of why some people find front-end fun and some people rather dislike it.
Things involved:
Cool [attribute] selectors that...
Dealing with overflow and position: sticky;
25.2.2019
Any overflow value other than visible and no height is the enemy of child elements with position: sticky;. It's like that element is ready to stick when the parent scrolls, but it never does because the height is unconstrained. Adding a fixed height can solve the issue, but that's not always...
<span>L</span><span>e</span><span>t</span><span>t</span><span>e</span><span>r</span><span>s</span>
20.2.2019
Did you see this Facebook crap?
"Why do I need a 4Ghz quadcore to run facebook?" This is why. A single word split up into 11 HTML DOM elements to avoid adblockers. pic.twitter.com/Zv4RfInrL0
— Mike Pan (@themikepan) February 6, 2019
I popped over to Facebook to verify that and what...
Where Do You Nest Your Sass Breakpoints?
11.2.2019
I love nesting my @media query breakpoints. It's perhaps the most important feature of Sass to me. Maybe I pick a method and do it like this:
.element {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 100px 1fr;
@include breakpoint(baby-bear) {
display: block;
}
}
That's straightforward enough....
JavaScript Glossary: Array .splice() Method
8.2.2019
Basics
The splice array method changes an existing array by removing, adding and/or replacing specified elements from it. The method mutates the array and returns an array of
JavaScript Glossary: Array .reverse() Method
8.2.2019
Basics
This method changes the position of elements within the array. The first element goes to the last position and the last element goes to the first position. The method returns the re
JavaScript Glossary: Array .map() Method
8.2.2019
Basics
The map() method takes a callback method that performs an operation on the elements in the array. It returns a new array containing the resulting values of running the
JavaScript Glossary: Array .forEach() Method
8.2.2019
Basics
The forEach() method takes a function that performs an action on each of the elements in this array.
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5].forEach(functio
JavaScript Glossary: Array .toString() Method
8.2.2019
Basics
This method returns a String representation of the elements withing the calling array. This method is somewhat similar to the join() method. It returns a s
JavaScript Glossary: Array.some()
8.2.2019
Basics
This method checks if any of the elements contained in an array passes a set test. If at least one of the elements passes this test, true is returned. This method only
Revisiting the abbr element
7.2.2019
An irresistible HTML element deep dive from Ire Aderinokun, this time on the <abbr title=""> element for abbreviations. You can kinda just use it (JUI) and it works fine, but if you're hoping to make a tooltip for them (which works on touchscreens as well), then it's much more complicated....
JavaScript Glossary: Array .every() Method
6.2.2019
Basics
The every method checks that each element in an array passes a set test. This method will return true if all the elements pass the set. Once an element tha
How do you figure?
1.2.2019
Scott O'Hara digs into the <figure> and <figcaption> elements. Gotta love a good ol' HTML deep dive.
I use these on just about every blog post here on CSS-Tricks, and as I've suspected, I've basically been doing it wrong forever. My original thinking was that a figcaption was just...
Custom Cursor Effects
31.1.2019
A collection of five demos and a tutorial on how to create animated custom cursor effects for interactive elements like navigations, galleries and carousels.
Custom Cursor Effects was written by Stefan Kaltenegger and published on Codrops