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Image Fragmentation Effect With CSS Masks and Custom Properties
23.3.2021
Geoff shared this idea of a checkerboard where the tiles disappear one-by-one to reveal an image. In it, an element has a background image, then a CSS Grid layout holds the “tiles” that go from a filled background color to …
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Taming Blend Modes: `difference` and `exclusion`
22.3.2021
Up until 2020, blend modes were a feature I hadn’t used much because I rarely ever had any idea what result they could produce without giving them a try first. And taking the “try it and see what happens” approach …
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Platform News: Prefers Contrast, MathML, :is(), and CSS Background Initial Values
19.3.2021
In this week’s round-up, prefers-contrast lands in Safari, MathML gets some attention, :is() is actually quite forgiving, more ADA-related lawsuits, inconsistent initial values for CSS Backgrounds properties can lead to unwanted — but sorta neat — patterns.
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axe DevTools Pro
18.3.2021
I’m going to try to show you some things I think are useful and important about axe™ DevTools and use as few words as possible.
axe DevTools includes a browser extension which you need no special expertise to use.
You …
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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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Did You Know About the :has CSS Selector?
17.3.2021
File this under stuff you don’t need to know just yet, but I think the :has CSS selector is going to have a big impact on how we write CSS in the future. In fact, if it ever ships in …
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Handling User Permissions in JavaScript
17.3.2021
So, you have been working on this new and fancy web application. Be it a recipe app, a document manager, or even your private cloud, you‘ve now reached the point of working with users and permissions. Take the document manager …
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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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Better Line Breaks for Long URLs
16.3.2021
CSS-Tricks has covered how to break text that overflows its container before, but not much as much as you might think. Back in 2012, Chris penned “Handling Long Words and URLs (Forcing Breaks, Hyphenation, Ellipsis, etc)” and it is still …
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The Gang Goes on JS Danger
15.3.2021
The JS Party podcast sometimes hosts game shows. One of them is Jeopardy-esque, called JS Danger, and some of us here from CSS-Tricks got to be the guests this past week! The YouTube video of it kicks off at about …
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Creating Patterns With SVG Filters
15.3.2021
For years, my pain has been not being able to create a somewhat natural-looking pattern in CSS. I mean, sometimes all I need is a wood texture. The only production-friendly solution I knew of was to use an external image, …
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How to Use Tailwind on a Svelte Site
12.3.2021
Let’s spin up a basic Svelte site and integrate Tailwind into it for styling. One advantage of working with Tailwind is that there isn’t any context switching going back and forth between HTML and CSS, since you’re applying styles as …
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Platform News: Defaulting to Logical CSS, Fugu APIs, Custom Media Queries, and WordPress vs. Italics
12.3.2021
Looks like 2021 is the time to start using CSS Logical Properties! Plus, Chrome recently shipped a few APIs that have raised eyebrows, SVG allows us to disable its aspect ratio, WordPress focuses on the accessibility of its typography, and …
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Chapter 7: Standards
11.3.2021
It was the year 1994 that the web came out of the shadow of academia and onto the everyone’s screens. In particular, it was the second half of the second week of December 1994 that capped off the year with …
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The WordPress Evolution Toward Full-Site Editing
10.3.2021
The block editor was a game-changer for WordPress. The idea that we can create blocks of content and arrange them in a component-like fashion means we have a lot of flexibility in how we create content, as well a bunch …
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Too Many SVGs Clogging Up Your Markup? Try `use`.
10.3.2021
Recently, I had to make a web page displaying a bunch of SVG graphs for an analytics dashboard. I used a bunch of <rect>, <line> and <text> elements on each graph to visualize certain metrics.
This works and renders …
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Firebase Crash Course
9.3.2021
This article is going to help you, dear front-end developer, understand all that is Firebase. We’re going to cover lots of details about what Firebase is, why it can be useful to you, and show examples of how. But …
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Web Components Are Easier Than You Think
8.3.2021
When I’d go to a conference (when we were able to do such things) and see someone do a presentation on web components, I always thought it was pretty nifty (yes, apparently, I’m from 1950), but it always seemed complicated …
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CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXXIX
6.3.2021
I’ve been lucky enough to be a guest on some podcasts and at some events, so I thought I’d do a quick little round-up here! These Chronicle posts are just that: an opportunity to share some off-site stiff that I’ve …
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A Super Flexible CSS Carousel, Enhanced With JavaScript Navigation
5.3.2021
Not sure about you, but I often wonder how to build a carousel component in such a way that you can easily dump a bunch of items into the component and get a nice working carousel — one that allows …
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