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The Eleventh Fourth

4.7.2018
Holy heck it feels like the last year has flown by! Longtime readers will remember that the fourth of July is CSS-Tricks birthday and we blog it each year. We turned 10 last year, and now we welcome our first palindromic number birthday. Huge thank you First, as ever, thank you for being part...

Free E-book: Modernize for Mobile Apps

28.6.2018
(This is a sponsored post.) No sign up required to read the free e-book. Building modern apps (mobile, PWAs or Single Page Apps) that connect to legacy or enterprise systems is a pain. We put together an e-book that discusses the various options for how to make it all work. Here are some of...

Better rendering for variable fonts

26.6.2018
I was messing around with a variable font the other day and noticed this weird rendering issue in the latest version of Chrome where certain parts of letterforms were clipping into each other in a really weird way. Thankfully, though, Stephen Nixon has come to the rescue with a temporary hack...

The Four Big Ways Jetpack Helps with Image Performance

19.6.2018
We've been working with Jetpack around here as a sponsor. It's a great match because as someone with a bunch of self-hosted WordPress sites, Jetpack is one of those no-brainer plugins for me. Jetpack can do a ton of good things for any site in a variety of very different ways. Here's one way...

Here’s the thing about “unused CSS” tools

18.6.2018
There are a lot of tools that aim to help you remove "unused CSS" from your project. Never a week goes by that I don't see a tool for this being shared or promoted. It must strike some kind of perfect chord for some developers. I care about performance, and I know that reducing file sizes is good...

Building a RSS Viewer With Vue: Part 1

18.6.2018
As I explore, learn, and most importantly, play with Vue.js, I've been building different types of apps as a way to get practice with and improve my use of it. A few weeks ago, I was reading about the shut down of Digg's RSS Reader and while great alternatives exist, I thought it would be fun...

More Unicode Patterns

14.6.2018
Creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know. —Anni Albers, On Designing I recently wrote a post — that was shared here on CSS-Tricks — where I looked at ways to use Unicode characters to create interesting (and random) patterns. Since then, I’ve continued to seek...

Versioning Interview

11.6.2018
Adam Roberts (who you might recognize from our interview with him), interviewed me for the Versioning newsletter. I'm publishing my answers here for y'alls perusal as well! Which dev/tech idea or trend excites you the most at the moment, and why? I love that new JavaScript has arrived. I don’t...

Manipulating Pixels Using Canvas

7.6.2018
Modern browsers support playing video via the <video> element. Most browsers also have access to webcams via the MediaDevices.getUserMedia() API. But even with those two things combined, we can’t really access and manipulate those pixels directly. Fortunately, browsers have a Canvas...

Learning Gutenberg: Setting up a Custom webpack Config

24.5.2018
Gutenberg introduces the modern JavaScript stack into the WordPress ecosystem, which means some new tooling should be learned. Although tools like create-guten-block are incredibly useful, it’s also handy to know what’s going on under the hood. Article Series: Series Introduction ...

Learning Gutenberg: A Primer with create-guten-block

22.5.2018
Welcome back! We’ve just taken a look at what Gutenberg is and how it operates from the admin side. Gutenberg is certainly going to have a massive impact on the WordPress world. If you are just arriving here and have no idea what we’re talking about, I recommend at least skimming Part 1 to make...

Dark theme in a day

21.5.2018
Marcin Wichary has written a great piece that dives into how he used CSS Variables to create a night mode and high contrast theme in an app. There’s so many neat tricks about how to use CSS Variables (Chris has also looked at theming) as well as how to organize them (Andras Galante has...

Learning Gutenberg: Series Introduction

21.5.2018
Hey CSS-Tricksters! 👋 We have a special long-form series we’re kicking off here totally dedicated to Gutenberg, a major change to the WordPress editor. I’ve invited a dynamic duo of authors to bring you this series, which will bring you up to speed on what Gutenberg is, what it can do...

Foreword for CSS In Depth

18.5.2018
Keith Grant recently released a brand new book on CSS: CSS in Depth. If you're looking for a book focused specifically on learning CSS, you've found it. I was happy to write the foreword for it, which I'll republish here. "A minute to learn... A lifetime to master." That phrase might feel...

Foreword for CSS In Depth

Custom List Number Styling

18.5.2018
How about a classic CSS trick! This isn't even so tricky anymore, since CSS has counter-increment and counter-reset and such that is perfect for this. I just wanted to make sure you knew how it works and had some easy-to-copy examples at the ready. Let's say all you wanna do is style the dang...

What’s wrong with CSS-in-JS?

11.5.2018
Brad Frost thinks it's: Lack of portability Context Switching Flushing best practices down the toilet In the spirit of good-ol-fashioned blog-and-response, here's: Brain Muenzenmeyer's response Micah Godbolt's response I'd like to point out that "CSS-in-JS" is an umbrella term, and that there...

Locate and identify website visitors by IP address

10.5.2018
(This is a sponsored post.) Big thanks to ipstack for sponsoring CSS-Tricks this week! Have you ever had the need to know the general location of a visitor of your website? You can get that information, without having to explicitly ask for it, by the user’s IP address. You’re just going to need...

Where Lines Break is Complicated. Here’s all the Related CSS and HTML.

9.5.2018
Say you have a really long word within some text inside an element that isn't wide enough to hold it. A common cause of that is a long URL finding it's way into copy. What happens? It depends on the CSS. How that CSS is controlling the layout and what the CSS is telling the text to do. This...

VS Code Can Do That?

7.5.2018
Clever microsite from Burke Holland and Sarah Drasner that highlights some of VS Code's coolest features. All fifteen of them are pretty darn cool. Here's a few other compelling features I've seen people use/love: There is a terminal right in there, so you don't need a separate app. The GitLens...