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Combining forces, GSAP & Webflow!
18.10.2024
Change can certainly be scary whenever a beloved, independent software library becomes a part of a larger organization. I’m feeling a bit more excitement than concern this time around, though.
If you haven’t heard, GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) is teaming …
Combining...
Mastering theme.json: You might not need CSS
18.10.2024
I totally get the goal here: make CSS more modular and scalable in WordPress. Put all your global WordPress theme styles in a single file, including variations. JSON offers a nicely structured syntax that’s easily consumable by JavaScript, thereby allowing …
Mastering theme.json:...
Solving Background Overflow With Inherited Border Radii
17.10.2024
One of the interesting (but annoying) things about CSS is the background of children’s elements can bleed out of the border radius of the parent element. Here’s an example of a card with an inner element. If the inner element …
Solving Background Overflow With Inherited Border Radii...
Close, Exit, Cancel: How to End User Interactions Well
16.10.2024
What’s in a word? Actions. In the realm of user interfaces, a word is construed as the telltale of a control’s action. Sometimes it points us in the correct direction, and sometimes it leads us astray. We talk a lot …
Close, Exit, Cancel: How to End User Interactions Well originally...
CSS Tricks That Use Only One Gradient
11.10.2024
CSS gradients have been so long that there’s no need to rehash what they are and how to use them. You have surely encountered them at some point in your front-end journey, and if you follow me, you also …
CSS Tricks That Use Only One Gradient originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part...
WPGraphQL Becomes a Canonical Plugin: My Move to Automattic
10.10.2024
It’s always a gas when a good person doing good work gets a good deal. In this case, Jason’s viral WPGraphQL plugin has not only become a canonical WordPress plugin, but creator Jason Bahl is joining Automattic as well.
I’m …
WPGraphQL Becomes a Canonical Plugin: My Move...
Desperately Need More Stardew Valley? Try Stardew Valley Expanded
9.10.2024
Like most human beings, I have spent countless hundreds of hours playing Stardew Valley across multiple systems. It’s a joyfully engaging game, with one of the most satisfying progression loops, and all while being so very charming. But there comes a time when you need more. You’ve grown every...
2024: More CSS At-Rules Than the Past Decade Combined
9.10.2024
More times than I can count, while writing, I get myself into random but interesting topics with little relation to the original post. In the end, I have to make the simple but painful choice of deleting or archiving hours …
2024: More CSS At-Rules Than the Past Decade Combined originally...
Smashing Hour With Heydon Pickering
8.10.2024
I sat down with Heydon Pickering in the most recent episode of the Smashing Hour. Full transparency: I was nervous as heck. I’ve admired Heydon’s work for years, and even though we run in similar circles, this was our first …
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Recipes for Detecting Support for CSS At-Rules
7.10.2024
The @supports at-rule has been extended several times since its initial release. Once only capable of checking support for property/value pairs, it can now check for a selector using the selector() wrapper function and different font formats and techs using …
Recipes for Detecting Support...
Searching for a New CSS Logo
7.10.2024
There is an amazing community effort happening in search of a new logo for CSS. I was a bit skeptical at first, as I never really considered CSS a “brand.” Why does it need a logo? For starters, the current …
Searching for a New CSS Logo originally published on CSS-Tricks...
The Proliferation and Problem of the ✨ Sparkles ✨ Icon
3.10.2024
Kate Kaplan hits on something over at Nielsen Norman Group’s blog that’s been bugging me:
The challenge with this icon is sparkle ambiguity: Participants in our recent research study generally agreed that it represented something a little special
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The Proliferation...
CSS Anchor Positioning Guide
2.10.2024
Learn about CSS Anchor Positioning, including its syntax, properties, how it is used to position one element next to another, and even how it's used to resize elements relative to other elements.
CSS Anchor Positioning Guide originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean...
CSS Masonry & CSS Grid
30.9.2024
An approach for creating masonry layouts in vanilla CSS is one of those “holy grail” aspirations. I actually tend to plop masonry and the classic “Holy Grail” layout in the same general era of web design. They’re different types of …
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Slide Through Unlimited Dimensions With CSS Scroll Timelines
27.9.2024
The creator of CSS has said he originally envisaged CSS as the main web technology to control behavior on web pages, with scripting as a fallback when things weren’t possible declaratively in CSS. The rationale for a CSS-first approach was …
Slide Through Unlimited Dimensions With CSS Scroll...
Aggregating my distributed self
27.9.2024
Miriam Suzanne’s in the middle of a redesign of her personal website. It began in August 2022. She’s made an entire series out of the work that’s worth your time, but I wanted to call out the fifth and latest …
Aggregating my distributed self originally published...
Catching Up on the WordPress ???? WP Engine Sitch
26.9.2024
Many of you — perhaps most of you — have been sitting on the sidelines while WordPress and WP Engine trade legal attacks on one another. It’s been widely covered as we watch it unfold in the open; ironically, in …
Catching Up on the WordPress 🚫 WP Engine Sitch originally...
BCD Watch
26.9.2024
A new tool from Eric Meyer, Brian Kardell, and Stephanie Stimac backed with Igalia’s support. Brian announced it on his blog, as did Eric, describing it like this:
What BCD Watch does is, it grabs releases of the Browser
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BCD Watch originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
How to Make a “Scroll to Select” Form Control
25.9.2024
The <select> element is a fairly straightforward concept: focus on it to reveal a set of <option>s that can be selected as the input’s value. That’s a great pattern and I’m not suggesting we change it. That said, I …
How to Make a “Scroll to Select” Form...
Color Mixing With Animation Composition
24.9.2024
Mixing colors in CSS is pretty much a solved deal, thanks to the more recent color-mix() function as it gains support. Pass in two color values — any two color values at all — and optionally set the proportions.
background-color:
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Color Mixing With Animation Composition originally...