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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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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...
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...
What’s Old is New
12.9.2024
I collect a bunch of links in a bookmarks folder. These are things I fully intend to read, and I do — eventually. It’s a good thing bookmarks are digital, otherwise, I’d need a bigger coffee table to separate them …
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Two Ways to Create Custom Translated Messaging for HTML Forms
11.9.2024
HTML forms come with built-in ways to validate form inputs and other controls against predefined rules such as making an input required, setting min and max constraints on range sliders, or establishing a pattern on an email input to check …
Two Ways to Create Custom Translated Messaging...
Quick Hit #18
10.9.2024
PSA: Today’s the day that Google’s performance tools officially stops supporting the First Input Delay (FID) metric that was replaced by Interaction to Next Paint (INP).…
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Anchor Positioning Quirks
10.9.2024
I am thrilled to say, that from this week onwards, the CSS-tricks Almanac has an entry for each property, function, and at-rule related to the new Anchor Positioning API! For the last month, I have tried to fully understand this …
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Sanding UI
10.9.2024
Jim hit a snag while working on a form. Placing labels next to inputs is trivial with flexbox, sure, but what happened in Jim’s case was a bit of dead-clicking between the labels and radio buttons.
The issue? Not the …
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Time Travelling CSS With :target
9.9.2024
Checkbox and radio button hacks are the (in)famous trick for creating games using just CSS. But it turns out that other elements based on user input can be hacked and gamified. There are very cool examples of developers getting creative with CSS...
Sticky Headers And Full-Height Elements: A Tricky Combination
9.9.2024
Quite a fun article I worked on with Philip Braunen. Do you know that little bit of elasticity you get when scrolling beyond the viewport when browsing the web on a mobile device? iPhone calls it a “rubber-banding” effect. …
Sticky Headers And Full-Height Elements: A Tricky...
Quick Hit #17
9.9.2024
“Wrapping the <labelaround the <inputis fine, and is sufficient for conformance on its own, however adding explicit association with for and id is still necessary in practice.” —James Edwards…
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Quick Hit #16
5.9.2024
“Never, ever hire for JavaScript framework skills. Instead, interview and hire only for fundamentals like web standards, accessibility, modern CSS, semantic HTML, and Web Components.” — Alex Russell…
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Quick Hit #15
5.9.2024
Almost missed that the WP Twenty Twenty-Five theme was approved a couple weeks ago.…
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Quick Hit #14
3.9.2024
Inclusive Design 24 is in 8 short days — and it’s FREE, no sign-up required!…
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Another Stab at Truncated Text
3.9.2024
Seems like we’re always talking about clipping text around here. All it takes is a little browsing to spot a bunch of things we’ve already explored.
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Multi-line Text Overflow Ellipsis
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CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-08-21)
30.8.2024
View Transitions are one of the most awesome features CSS has shipped in recent times. Its title is self-explanatory: transitions between views are possible with just CSS, even across pages of the same origin! What’s more interesting is its …
CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-08-21)...
Paragraphs
30.8.2024
I sure do love little reminders about HTML semantics, particularly semantics that are tougher to commit to memory. Scott has a great one, beginning with this markup:
<pI am a paragraph.</p<spanI am also a paragraph.</span<div
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