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In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu
18.3.2021
I still remember my excitement when I learned how to build a hover-triggered submenu with just CSS. (It was probably after reading this 2003 article from A List Apart.) At the time, it was a true CSS trick. Seriously. …
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Long Hover
16.3.2021
I had a very embarrassing CSS moment the other day.
I was working on the front-end code of a design that had a narrow sidebar of icons. There isn’t enough room there to show text of what the icons are, …
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Circular SVG Text Animation
3.3.2021
Exploring some experimental circular SVG text effects for an intro animation.
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Ideas for CSS Button Hover Animations
17.2.2021
Some inspiration for button hover animations using CSS only.
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Don’t put pointer-events: none on form labels
12.2.2021
Bruce Lawson with the tip of the day, warning against the use of pointer-events: none on forms labels. We know that pointer-events is used to change how elements respond to click, tap, hover, and active states. But it apparently borks …
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Simple CSS Line Hover Animations for Links
10.2.2021
A couple of simple & subtle CSS-based line hover animations for links.
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Scrollbars on Hover
21.1.2021
First, scrollbars are a usability and accessibility thing. Second, a rule of thumb: if an area scrolls, it should have a visible scrollbar. But the web is a big place and I like tricks, so I’m going to cover the …
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Inline Menu Layout with Gallery Panel
11.11.2020
An inline menu layout with a playful hover animation and a gallery content preview panel.
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JavaScript Operator Lookup
9.11.2020
Okay, this is extremely neat: Josh Comeau made this great site called Operator Lookup that explains how JavaScript operators work. There are some code examples to explain what they do as well, which is pretty handy.
My favorite bit of UI design here are the tags at the bottom of the search...
Interaction Media Features and Their Potential (for Incorrect Assumptions)
14.9.2020
The Media Queries Level 4 Interaction Media Features — pointer, hover, any-pointer and any-hover — are meant to allow sites to implement different styles and functionality (either CSS-specific interactivity like :hover, or JavaScript behaviors, when queried using window.matchMedia), depending...
Using a brightness() filter to generically highlight content
12.9.2020
Rick Strahl:
I can’t tell you how many times over the years I’ve implemented a custom ‘button’ like CSS implementation. Over the years I’ve used images, backgrounds, gradients, and opacity to effectively ‘highlight’ a control. All that works of course,...
Excluding Emojis From Transparent Text Clipping
2.9.2020
CSS-Tricks has this pretty cool way of styling hovered links. By default, the text is a fairly common blue. But hover of the links, and they’re filled with a linear gradient.
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Pretty neat, right? And the trick isn’t all that complicated. On hover…
give the link a linear...
A CSS-only, animated, wrapping underline
21.8.2020
Nicky Meuleman, inspired by Cassie Evans, details how they built the anchor link hover on their sites. When a link is hovered, another color underline kinda slides in with a gap between the two. Typical text-decoration doesn’t help here, so multiple backgrounds are used instead,...
Magnetic Buttons
5.8.2020
A small set of magnetic buttons with some fun hover animations.
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SVG Title vs. HTML Title Attribute
30.7.2020
You know the title attribute? I can do this:
<div title="The Title"I'm a div with a `title`
</div
And now if I’m on a device with a mouse pointer and hover the cursor over that element, I get…
Which, uh, I guess is something. I sometimes use it for things like putting...
Bold on Hover… Without the Layout Shift
27.7.2020
When you change the font-weight of a font, the text will typically cause a bit of a layout shift. That’s because bold text is often larger and takes up more space. Sometimes that doesn’t matter, like a vertical stack of links where the wider/bolder text doesn’t push anything...
Exploring Animations for Menu Hover Effects
8.7.2020
A couple of ideas for creative menu hover animations with images.
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Creating a Menu Image Animation on Hover
1.7.2020
A tutorial on how to create a hover effect for a menu where images appear with an animation on each item.
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A Glitchy Grid Layout Slideshow
24.6.2020
An experimental grid slideshow with a stack-like navigation and glitch effect.
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How to Create a Motion Hover Effect for a Background Image Grid
10.6.2020
A short tutorial on how to achieve a motion hover effect on a background image grid.
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