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What should someone learn about CSS if they last boned up during CSS3?
19.1.2022
What's new in CSS? If someone asked you that, who knows CSS but hasn't stayed up to date the last, say, half a decade or more, what advice would you give?
What should someone learn about CSS if they last boned up during CSS3? originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter...
4 Quality Options for a Table of Contents Block in WordPress
19.1.2022
There are a number of options for including a Table of Contents lock in WordPress. You can use a plugin, or try to do it yourself.
4 Quality Options for a Table of Contents Block in WordPress originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter and become a supporter
Making a Site Work Offline Using the VitePWA Plugin
18.1.2022
The VitePWA plugin from Anthony Fu is a fantastic tool for your Vite-powered sites. It helps you add a service worker that handles:
offline support
caching assets and content
prompting the user when new content is available
…and other goodies!
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Making a Site Work Offline Using the VitePWA...
What Were the Hottest Front-End Tools in 2021?
17.1.2022
Another year has passed and once again I’ve had the privilege of going through the Web Tools Weekly newsletter archives from the past 12 months to hunt down the front-end tools that readers found to be the most interesting during …
What Were the Hottest Front-End Tools in 2021?...
Using the CSS Me Not Bookmarklet to See (and Disable) CSS Files
15.1.2022
Stoyan is absolutely correct. As much as we all love CSS, it’s still an important player in how websites load and using less of it is a good thing. He has a neat new bookmarklet called CSS Me Not …
Using the CSS Me Not Bookmarklet to See (and Disable) CSS Files originally published...
Mondrian Art in CSS From 5 Code Artists
14.1.2022
Mondrian is famous for paintings with big thick black lines forming a grid, where each cell is white, red, yellow, or blue. This aesthetic pairs well with the notoriously rectangular web, and that hasn’t gone unnoticed over the years with …
Mondrian Art in CSS From 5 Code Artists...
How to Build Your First Custom Svelte Transition
14.1.2022
The Svelte transition API provides a first-class way to animate your components when they enter or leave the document, including custom Svelte transitions. By default, the transition directive uses CSS animations, which generally offer better performance and allow the browser’s …
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8 Helpful Accessibility Links for January 2022
13.1.2022
Every now and then, I find that I’ve accumulated a bunch of links about various things I find interesting. Accessibility is one of those things! Here’s a list of related links to other articles that I’ve been saving up and …
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A Practical Tip For Using Sass Default Parameters
13.1.2022
Sass offers functions and mixins that accept parameters. You can use Sass default parameters, that is, parameters that have a value even if you don’t provide them when the function or mixin is called.
Let’s focus on mixins here. …
A Practical Tip For Using Sass Default...
Parcel CSS: A New CSS Parser, Transformer, and Minifier
12.1.2022
Hot off the presses from Devon Govett, creator of Parcel, is Parcel CSS:
A CSS parser, transformer, and minifier written in Rust.
Nice. The CSS world could use a little processing shake up like this.
I just wrote a …
Parcel CSS: A New CSS Parser, Transformer, and Minifier originally...
Open Source & Sustainability
12.1.2022
It’s a god-damned miracle to me that open source is as robust as it is in tech. Consider the options. You could have a job (or be entrepreneurial) with your coding skills and likely be paid quite well. Or, you …
Open Source & Sustainability originally published on CSS-Tricks....
How to Make a Pure CSS 3D Package Toggle
12.1.2022
You know how you can get cardboard boxes that come totally flat? You fold ‘em up and tape ‘em to make them into a useful box. Then when it’s time to recycle them, you cut them back apart to flatten …
How to Make a Pure CSS 3D Package Toggle originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should...
Netlify Identity, a Key Aspect to Jamstack Development
12.1.2022
(This is a sponsored post.)
Netlify is amazing at static file hosting, but it’s really so much more than that. You can build any sort of website, even highly dynamic apps, with the Jamstack approach and static file hosting …
Netlify Identity, a Key Aspect to Jamstack Development...
What Would it Take to Prevent CSS Tooltips From Overflowing?
12.1.2022
Say you have an elements with CSS tooltips and you’re going to position those tooltips such that it opens up next to the element on hover (or probably better: when clicked/tapped). Next to it where? Above it? What if the …
What Would it Take to Prevent CSS Tooltips From Overflowing?...
Adding Vite to Your Existing Web App
11.1.2022
Vite (pronounced “veet”) is a newish JavaScript bundler. It comes batteries-included, requires almost no configuration to be useful, and includes plenty of configuration options. Oh—and it’s fast. Incredibly fast.
This post will walk through the process of converting an existing …
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How to Use Native Custom Fields in WordPress (and 5 Useful Examples)
11.1.2022
Custom Fields in WordPress are arbitrary bits of data that you can apply to Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types in WordPress. Metadata, as it were, in the form of key/value pairs. For example:
Key: subtitle / Value: They are
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How to Use Native Custom Fields in WordPress (and 5 Useful...
What is Chromium Without Chrome on Top?
10.1.2022
Raw Chromium, perhaps?
So, Chrome is based on Chromium which is open-source. Chrome is Chromium with Google’s extra stuff on top of it. What extra stuff? Kinda lots! A few years ago, The Verge published “Microsoft reveals all the …
What is Chromium Without Chrome on Top?...
Don’t Fight the Cascade, Control It!
10.1.2022
If you’re disciplined and make use of the inheritance that the CSS cascade provides, you’ll end up writing less CSS. But because our styles often comes from all kinds of sources — and can be a pain to structure and …
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8 Interesting Typography Links for January 2022
7.1.2022
Every now and then, I find that I’ve accumulated a bunch of links about various things I find interesting. Typography is one of those things! Here’s a list of typography links to other articles that I’ve been saving up and …
8 Interesting Typography Links for January 2022...
Adam Argyle’s Sick Mouse-Out CSS Hover Effect
7.1.2022
I was killing some time browsing my CodePen feed for some eye candy and didn’t need to go past the first page before spotting a neat CSS hover effect by Adam Argyle.
I must’ve spent 10 minutes just staring …
Adam Argyle’s Sick Mouse-Out CSS Hover Effect originally published...