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Adding Fluid Typography Support to WordPress Block Themes
7.10.2022
Fluid typography is a fancy way of “describing font properties, such as size or line height, that scale fluidly according to the size of the viewport”. It’s also known by other names, like responsive typography, flexible type, fluid type, …
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How to Safely Share Your Email Address on a Website
6.10.2022
Spammers are a huge deal nowadays. If you want to share your contact information without getting overwhelmed by spam email you need a solution. I run into this problem a few months ago. While I was researching how to solve …
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Using Web Components With Next (or Any SSR Framework)
5.10.2022
In my previous post we looked at Shoelace, which is a component library with a full suite of UX components that are beautiful, accessible, and — perhaps unexpectedly — built with Web Components. This means they can be used …
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State of CSS 2022 Survey Now Open
4.10.2022
The State of CSS survey recently opened up. Last year, the survey confirmed everyone’s assumptions that TailwindCSS is super popular and CSS variables are mainstream. It also codified what many of us want from CSS, from Container Queries to …
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Introducing Shoelace, a Framework-Independent Component-Based UX Library
4.10.2022
This is a post about Shoelace, a component library by Cory LaViska, but with a twist. It defines all your standard UX components: tabs, modals, accordions, auto-completes, and much, much more. They look beautiful out of the …
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Getting Started With WordPress Block Development
30.9.2022
Let’s acknowledge that developing for WordPress is weird right now. Whether you’re new to WordPress or have worked with it for eons, the introduction of “Full-Site Editing” (FSE) features, including the Block Editor (WordPress 5.0) and the Site Editor (WordPress …
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GIFs Without the .gif: The Most Performant Image and Video Options Right Now
28.9.2022
So you want an auto-playing looping video without sound? In popular vernacular this is the very meaning of the word GIF. The word has stuck around but the image format itself is ancient and obsolete. Twitter, for example, has …
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Named Element IDs Can Be Referenced as JavaScript Globals
27.9.2022
Did you know that DOM elements with IDs are accessible in JavaScript as global variables? It’s one of those things that’s been around, like, forever but I’m really digging into it for the first time.
If this is the first …
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How to Create Wavy Shapes & Patterns in CSS
26.9.2022
The wave is probably one of the most difficult shapes to make in CSS. We always try to approximate it with properties like border-radius and lots of magic numbers until we get something that feels kinda close. And that’s before …
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How To Customize WordPress Block Theme Cover Templates with Dynamic Post Feature Images
23.9.2022
If we browse the WordPress theme directory, a majority of themes showcase cover images. It is a feature in popular demand. The cover page trend is true even in the block theme directory screenshots as well.
Let’s consider the …
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The Web is Good Now
23.9.2022
The video of Chris Coyier’s talk at CascadiaJS 2022 is now available. It’s his first in-person talk in more than two years, so it’s great to see our good friend back on stage slinging gems on what makes the web …
The Web is Good Now originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
How I Made an Icon System Out of CSS Custom Properties
22.9.2022
SVG is the best format for icons on a website, there is no doubt about that. It allows you to have sharp icons no matter the screen pixel density, you can change the styles of the SVG on hover …
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CSS Rules vs. CSS Rulesets
21.9.2022
The latest spec:
A style rule is a qualified rule that associates a selector list with a list of property declarations and possibly a list of nested rules. They are also called rule sets in CSS2.
Louis Lazaris:
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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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More Details on `details`
15.9.2022
A lot of chatter around the ol’ <details> and <summary> elements lately! I saw Lea Verou recently tweet an observation about the element’s display behavior and that sorta splintered into more observations and usage notes from folks, including a revived …
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When is it OK to Disable Text Selection?
14.9.2022
Using CSS, it’s possible to prevent users from selecting text within an element using user-select: none. Now, it’s understandable why doing so might be considered “controversial”. I mean, should we be disabling standard user behaviors? Generally speaking, no, we …
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3 ways scammers will try to fool you over Ethereum’s Merge
14.9.2022
Besides fake ETH 2.0 tokens and malicious token airdrops, crypto users should also be on the lookout for staking pools offering attractive staking yields
WebKit Features in Safari 16.0
13.9.2022
Whew boy, Safari 16 is officially out in the wild and it packs in a bunch of features, some new and exciting (Subgrid! Container Queries! Font Palettes!) and others we’ve been waiting on for better cross-browser support (Motion Path! Overscroll …
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The Basics of Remix
13.9.2022
You’ve probably heard a lot of hype around one of the newest kids on the framework block, Remix. It may be surprising that it got its start back in 2019, but it was originally only available as a subscription-based premium …
The Basics of Remix originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...