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Meta Theme Color and Trickery
13.7.2021
Starting with Version 15, Safari supports the theme-color <meta> tag both on macOS and iOS. That’s exciting news because now the first desktop browser supports this <meta> tag and it also supports the media attribute and the prefers-color-scheme media feature.…
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Using the Specificity of :where() as a CSS Reset
12.7.2021
I don’t know about you, but I write these three declarations many times in my CSS:
ul {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
list-style-type: none;
}
You might yell at me and say I can just put those in my CSS …
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SVG Favicons in Action
9.7.2021
Ever heard of favicons made with SVG? If you are a regular reader of CSS-Tricks, you probably have. But does your website actually use one?
The task is more non-trivial than you might think. As we will see in this …
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My Struggle to Use and Animate a Conic Gradient in SVG
8.7.2021
The wonderful company I work for, Payoneer, has a new logo, and my job was to recreate it and animate it for a loader component in our app. I’ll explain exactly how I did it, share the problems I …
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A Look at Building with Astro
7.7.2021
Astro is a brand new framework for building websites. To me, the big thing is that it allows you to build a site like you’re using a JavaScript framework (and you are), but the output is a zero-JavaScript static site. …
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The Web’s Worst Default
7.7.2021
There are a lot of great defaults when it comes to browsers and the web. Think about all the accessibility features that are baked into HTML so that you don’t have to do weird stuff, like this example from Manuel…
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Body Toggle
6.7.2021
I appreciate the clarity of this trick that Mikael Ainalem posted over on Reddit:
It’s a one-liner that toggles the class on the <body> so you can mock up different states and toggle between them on click.
<body onclick="this.classList.toggle("active");"
Could …
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I’ve got one question about Jetpack for you.
6.7.2021
And maybe an optional follow-up if you’re up for it.
Automattic, the makers of Jetpack and many other WordPress-y things, have sponsored my site (me = Chris Coyier; site = CSS-Tricks) for quite a while. I use Jetpack myself, …
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The Dilemma of Naming Font Size Variables
6.7.2021
Normally, a project will have a set of pre-determined font sizes, usually as variables named in such a way that seeks some semblance of order and consistency. Any project of considerable size can use something like that. There are always …
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New article
6.7.2021
Despite the launch of Uniswap v3 decentralized exchange with its capital efficiency increase, Uniswap v2 is not out of the race yet
Kubernetes Explained Simply: Containers, Pods and Images
5.7.2021
If you zone out every time someone mentions “Kubernetes,” “containers,” or “pods,” this article is for you. No complex diagrams involved!
As a front-end developer, you don’t have to know how to configure an infrastructure from scratch. However, if you …
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The Fourteenth Fourth
4.7.2021
It’s CSS-Tricks birthday! Somehow that keeps coming around every year. It’s that time where I reflect upon that past year. It’s like the annual vibe check.
I’m writing this just days after my current home state of Oregon has …
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Zero-Width Space
2.7.2021
The name zero-width space is antithetical, but it’s not without uses. In text, maybe you’d use it around slashes because you want to be sure the words are treated individually but not have any physical space around the slash:…
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Good Meetings
2.7.2021
Like it or not, meetings are essential to a good working environment and communication. Therefore, it’s crucial that we work on making them as productive as possible. Today we’ll explore myriad ways to keep meetings coordinated, well documented, and talk …
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The Trick to Enable Printify Shipping Notifications for Orders in WooCommerce? Customer Notes.
2.7.2021
This is a super niche blog post. But it’s been on my list forever to write down because this caused me grief for far too long.
The setup is that you can use WooCommerce to sell things on a WordPress …
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App Platform on Digital Ocean
1.7.2021
This is new stuff from DO.
App Platform is a hosting product, no surprise there, but it has some features that are Jamstack-inspired in the best possible way, and an additional set of unique and powerful features. Let’s start with …
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Hack the “Deploy to Netlify” Button Using Environment Variables to Make a Customizable Site Generator
1.7.2021
If you’re anything like me, you like being lazy shortcuts. The “Deploy to Netlify” button allows me to take this lovely feature of my personality and be productive with it.
Clicking the button above lets me (or you!) instantly …
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How do you make a layout with pictures down one side of a page matched up with paragraphs on the other side?
30.6.2021
I got this exact question in an email the other day, and I thought it would make a nice blog post because of how wonderfully satisfying this is to do in CSS these days. Plus we can sprinkle in polish …
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When a Click is Not Just a Click
30.6.2021
The click event is quite simple and easy to use; you listen for the event and run code when the event is fired. It works on just about every HTML element there is, a core feature of the DOM API.…
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Fixing a Bug in Low-Resolution Mode
30.6.2021
I was working on a bug ticket the other day where it was reported that an icon was sitting low in a button. Just not aligned like it should be. I had to go on a little journey to figure …
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