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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 …
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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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What to Expect at Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison's Sentencing
24.9.2024
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison will learn her fate in a few hours. She may spend the next several months or years behind bars, but her attorneys, the Department of Justice and the Probation Office all seem to think she should remain a free woman after the amount of cooperation...
The selectmenu Element is No More…Long Live select!
23.9.2024
I was looking over an older article Patrick Brosset penned for us introducing <selectmenu>, a new proposal at the time for a more style-able cousin to <select>. From there, I clicked the linked-up <selectmenu> explainer and got… this:…
The selectmenu Element...
Quick Hit #21
20.9.2024
Seeing a lot more headlines decrying JavaScript and pumping up PHP. Always interesting to see which direction the front-end zeitgeist is leaning.…
Quick Hit #21 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
Prediction Markets Go to Washington('s Appeals Court)
20.9.2024
The CFTC is working to ban political prediction markets. Its current goal: Get a federal appeals court to keep one from launching while it argues a judge was mistaken in overturning its rejection of Kalshi
CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-09-18)
20.9.2024
For the past two months, all my livelihood has gone towards reading, researching, understanding, writing, and editing about Anchor Positioning, and with many Almanac entries published and a full Guide guide on the way, I thought I was ready to …
CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-09-18) originally...
Quick Hit #20
19.9.2024
Having fun with Bramus’ new Caniuse CLI tool. This’ll save lots of trips to the Caniuse site!…
Quick Hit #20 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
Quick Hit #19
19.9.2024
Two possible syntaxes for CSS masonry, one draft specification, and you get to share your opinions.
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Quick Hit #19 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
Re-Working the CSS Almanac
19.9.2024
Getting right to it: the CSS-Tricks Almanac got a big refresh this week!
I’m guessing you’re already familiar with this giant ol’ section of CSS-Tricks called the Almanac. This is where we publish references for CSS selectors and properties…
Re-Working the CSS Almanac...
The Protocol: How Winklevii Taught Dad BTC, Wild Flight to Singapore
18.9.2024
Forget the Federal Reserve. The Bitcoin and crypto project news flow is ample (and fascinating) enough to keep us busy. We've got the rundown plus $80M of fundraisings. In CoinDesk's weekly newsletter on blockchain tech
Clever Polypane Debugging Features I’m Loving
17.9.2024
I’m working on a refresh of my personal website, what I’m calling the HD remaster. Well, I wouldn’t call it a “full” redesign. I’m just cleaning things up, and Polypane is coming in clutch. I wrote about how much …
Clever Polypane Debugging Features...
Multiple Anchors
16.9.2024
Only Chris, right? You’ll want to view this in a Chromium browser:
CodePen Embed Fallback
This is exactly the sort of thing I love, not for its practicality (cuz it ain’t), but for how it illustrates a concept. Generally, tutorials …
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Smashing Hour With Lynn Fisher
16.9.2024
I’m a big Lynn Fisher fan. You probably are, too, if you’re reading this. Or maybe you’re reading her name for the first time, in which case you’re in for a treat.
That’s because I had a chance to sit …
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Two CSS Properties for Trimming Text Box Whitespace
13.9.2024
The text-box-trim and text-box-edge properties in CSS enable developers to trim specifiable amounts of the whitespace that appear above the first formatted line of text and below the last formatted line of text in a text box, making the text …
Two CSS Properties for Trimming...