Parcel CSS: A New CSS Parser, Transformer, and Minifier

Hot off the presses from Devon Govett, creator of Parcel, is Parcel CSS, a CSS parser, transformer, and minifier written in Rust. | Continue reading


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Open Source & Sustainability

I don't feel confident operating or maintaining open source. That makes me scared of it, and my fear makes me avoid doing it at all. | Continue reading


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How to Make a Pure CSS 3D Package Toggle

You know how you can get cardboard boxes that come totally flat? You fold ‘em up and tape ‘em to make them into a useful box. Then when it’s time to recycle | Continue reading


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Netlify Identity, a Key Aspect to Jamstack Development

Netlify Identity is a robust offering that provides authentication on a Jamstack site. It’s super easy to enable and opens up a bunch of possibilities. | Continue reading


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What Would it Take to Prevent CSS Tooltips From Overflowing?

Sometimes UI elements, like tooltips, need to be edge-aware to prevent the content inside from triggering weird scrollbars or cutting off content. | Continue reading


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Adding Vite to Your Existing Web App

Vite (pronounced “veet”) is a newish JavaScript bundler. It comes batteries-included, requires almost no configuration to be useful, and includes plenty of | Continue reading


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How to Use Native Custom Fields in WordPress (and 5 Useful Examples)

Custom Fields in WordPress are arbitrary bits of data that you can apply to Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types in WordPress. Metadata, as it were, in the | Continue reading


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What is Chromium Without Chrome on Top?

Chromium isn't actually just the core browser stuff where Chrome then adds stuff on top of it. | Continue reading


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Don’t Fight the Cascade, Control It!

If you’re disciplined and make use of the inheritance that the CSS cascade provides, you’ll end up writing less CSS. But because our styles often comes from | Continue reading


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8 Interesting Typography Links for January 2022

A list of typography links to other articles about that we've been collecting and are now sharing around the world of fonts, typefaces, and more. | Continue reading


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Adam Argyle’s Sick Mouse-Out CSS Hover Effect

I was killing some time browsing my CodePen feed for some eye candy and didn't need to go past the first page before spotting a neat CSS hover effect by Adam | Continue reading


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useRainbow()

How a useRainbow() function can be used to create a brightly colored background that transitions between multiple colors. | Continue reading


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A New Container Query Polyfill That Just Works

There is an easy-to-use CSS container query polyfill now. You essentially conditionally load it and forget about it. Then write spec-compliant container queries code. | Continue reading


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The Search For a Fixed Background Effect With Inline Images

I was working on a client project a few days ago and wanted to create a certain effect on an . See, background images can do the effect I was | Continue reading


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The Search For a Fixed Background Effect With Inline Images

I was working on a client project a few days ago and wanted to create a certain effect on an . See, background images can do the effect I was | Continue reading


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Notes on Josh Comeau’s Custom CSS Reset

We recently talked with Elad Shechter on his new CSS reset, and shortly after that Josh Comeau blogged his. | Continue reading


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How to Make a Component That Supports Multiple Frameworks in a Monorepo

We're going to make a Yarn workspaces-based monorepo that supports multiple frameworks, including React, Vue, Svelte, and Angular. | Continue reading


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Should CSS Override Default Browser Styles?

Every CSS ruleset you write will likely changes the defaults of something. But should CSS override browser defaults defaults? | Continue reading


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CSS Underlines Are Too Thin and Too Low in Chrome

I’ve encountered two bugs in Chrome while testing the new CSS text-decoration-thickness and text-underline-offset properties, and I want to share them with | Continue reading


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Jetpack Features We Love and Use at CSS-Tricks

We use and love Jetpack around here. It's a WordPress plugin that brings a whole suite of functionality to your site ranging from security to marketing with | Continue reading


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CSS-Based Fingerprinting

Fingerprinting is bad. It's a term that refers to building up enough metadata about a user that you can essentially figure out who they are. JavaScript has | Continue reading


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How to Create a Browser Extension

I’ll bet you are using browser extensions right now. Some of them are extremely popular and useful, like ad blockers, password managers, and PDF viewers. | Continue reading


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Thank You (2021 Edition)

The year has come to a close and it's time again for our end-of-year wrapup. The most important message is this: thank you. (thankyouthankyou) | Continue reading


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Defensive CSS

Ahmad Shadeed nails it again with "Defensive CSS." The idea is that you should write CSS to be ready for issues caused by dynamic content. | Continue reading


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The Web is More Gooder, and Other Observations on Today’s Web Tech

I'm actually working on a talk (whew! been a while! kinda feels good!) about just how good the world of building websites has gotten. I plan to cover a wide | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 3 years ago

Add Less

When you're about to start a new website, what do you think first? Do you start with a library or framework you know, like React or Vue, or a meta-framework | Continue reading


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New Age DAM APIs to Simplify Your Media Workflows

High-velocity, online businesses produce multiple digital assets like banners, images, videos, PDFs, etc., to promote their businesses online. For such | Continue reading


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Empathetic Animation

Animation on the web is often a contentious topic. I think, in part, it’s because bad animation is blindingly obvious, whereas well-executed animation fades | Continue reading


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On Yak Shaving and md-block, a new HTML element for Markdown

Lea Verou made a Web Component for processing Markdown. Looks like there were a couple of others out there already, but I agree with Lea in that this is a | Continue reading


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Add a Service Worker to Your Site

One of the best things you can do for your website in 2022 is add a service worker, if you don't have one in place already. Service workers give your website | Continue reading


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Our favorite Chrome extensions of 2021

I hadn't heard of most of the Chrome extensions that Sarem Gizaw lists as 2021 favorites. Here are my hot takes on all of them, except the virtual learning | Continue reading


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Honor prefers-color-scheme in the CSS Paint API with Custom Properties

One of the coolest things I’ve been messing with in the last couple years is the CSS Paint API. I love it. I did a talk on it, and made a little gallery of my own paint worklets. The other cool thi… | Continue reading


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Strut Your Stuff With a Custom Scrollbar

The first time I had my breath taken away by a humble scrollbar was on this very site. When CSS-Tricks v17 rolled out with its FAT CHONKY BOI, my jaw dropped. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 3 years ago

Care for the Text

How do you make a great website? Everyone has an answer at the ready: Flashy animations! The latest punk-rock CSS trick! Gradients! Illustrations! Colors to pack a punch! Vite! And, sure, all these… | Continue reading


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Remember You Are Not the User

One thing people can do to make their websites better is to remember that you are not representative of all your users. Our life experiences and how we interact with the web are not indicative of h… | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 3 years ago

2021 Roundup of Web Research

Last year, we kicked out a roundup of published surveys, research, and other findings from around the web. There were some nice nuggets in there, like a general sentiment that the web needs more do… | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 3 years ago

Show, Don’t Tell

How much time do you spend designing the content presentation for your websites? When you write a new blog post or create a new page, are you thinking about just the words, or how your readers will… | Continue reading


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Personalize it!

Ensuring accessibility is a clear path to making your website better. When you make your site accessible, you grow your audience, improve the experience for all people using it (not just those with… | Continue reading


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Why Ember?

There was a time when I’d write React, Angular, and Ember as a kind of generic grouping of three major JavaScript frameworks. And maybe just because three is a nice number, that became React,… | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 3 years ago

Increase Your Reach

NGL, I was a little overwhelmed when I sat down to write this article. There are so many things that immediately flooded my mind—take out any extra divs; use links for URLs, use buttons for events … | Continue reading


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Links on Performance V

Does shadow DOM improve style performance? — Nolan Lawson covers how, because of the inherent encapsulation of the shadow DOM, the styling gets applied a bit faster than it would if those styl… | Continue reading


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Make Joyful Things

Everything kind of sucks right now. Things—generally—feel bad. Setting aside the broader realities of a global pandemic and rampant social injustices, we’re watching the identity of the web platfor… | Continue reading


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Auto Dark Theme

There are a number of ways to approach a dark mode for your website, but essentially you get all the styles ready for it and then apply them when the user has indicated they want them, whether by d… | Continue reading


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Build Great Apps: Designer and Developer Collaboration Just Got Easier

We’re going to go over details on how designer ↔️ developer collaboration in AWS Amplify Studio can make app building easier, but let’s cover one of those things right at … | Continue reading


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Be Prepared for Failure and Handle it Gracefully

When I was working at my first “real” job in the field in the mid-2000s, it was hammered in the web dev field to build tiny websites (no more than 100KB per page), only use JavaScript for special e… | Continue reading


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What is the one thing people can do to make their website better? EoY CSSTricks

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A visual introduction to machine learning

Just the first sentence alone here from Stepanie Yee and Tony Chu is solid: In machine learning, computers apply statistical learning techniques to automatically identify patterns in data… | Continue reading


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Maybe Nothing

What’s one thing we can do to make our site better? Maybe nothing at all! Our websites keep getting bigger and bigger! When we have a team with so many exciting ideas and such interesting technolog… | Continue reading


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