List Style Recipes

Lists are a fundamental part of HTML! They are useful in things like blog posts for listing out steps, recipes for listing ingredients, or items in a | Continue reading


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Playing With (Fake) Container Queries With watched-box & resizeasaurus

Heydon's is a damn fantastic tool. It's a custom element that essentially does container queries by way of class names that get added | Continue reading


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A Complete Guide to CSS Functions

Like any other programming language, CSS has functions. They can be inserted where you’d place a value, or in some cases, accompanying another value declaration. | Continue reading


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No-Comma Color Functions in CSS

There have been a couple of viral tweets about this lately, one from Adam Argyle and one from Mathias Bynes. This is a nice change that makes CSS a bit | Continue reading


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Phuoc Nguyen’s One Page Wonders

I keep running across these super useful one page sites, and they keep being by the same person! Like this one with over 100 vanilla JavaScript DOM | Continue reading


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React Integration Testing: Greater Coverage, Fewer Tests

Integration tests are a natural fit for interactive websites, like ones you might build with React. They validate how a user interacts with your app | Continue reading


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Some Innocent Fun With HTML Video and Progress

The idea came while watching a mandatory training video on bullying in the workplace. I can just hear High School Geoff LOL-ing about a wimp like me have | Continue reading


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A Book Apart Turning 10

Early congratulations, A Book Apart! That's a hell of a milestone. I'm quite sure I've read more A Book Apart books than any other tech book publisher. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Alpine.js: The JavaScript Framework That’s Used Like jQuery, Written Like Vue, and Inspired by TailwindCSS

We have big JavaScript frameworks that tons of people already use and like, including React, Vue, Angular, and Svelte. Do we need another JavaScript | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

How to Redirect a Search Form to a Site-Scoped Google Search

This is just a tiny little trick that might be helpful on a site where you don't have the time or desire to build out a really good on-site search | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Using Formik to Handle Forms in React

There is no doubt that web forms play an integral role in our web site or applications. By default, they provide a useful set of elements and features — | Continue reading


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Static or Not?

A quick opinion piece by Kev Quirk: Why I Don’t Use A Static Site Generator. Kev uses WordPress: Want to blog on my iPad? I can. Want to do it | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Advice for Writing a Technical Resume

Marco Rogers asked a very good question on Twitter: https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1248680800305860608?s=20 I’ve been on both sides of the interview | Continue reading


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@property

The @property is totally new to me, but I see it's headed to Chrome, so I suppose it's good to know about! There is a draft spec and an "intent to ship" | Continue reading


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How to Make a CSS-Only Carousel

We mentioned a way to make a CSS-only carousel in a recent issue of the newsletter and I thought that a more detailed write up would be interesting and | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

“The title ‘Front-End Developer’ is obsolete.”

That title is from the opening tweet of a thread from Benjamin De Cock. I wouldn't go that far, myself. What I like about the term is that ‘Front-End’ | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Chrome + System Fonts Snafu

There was just a bug late last year where system fonts (at least on Mac, I don't know what the story was on other platforms) in Chrome appeared too thin | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

SVG, Favicons, and All the Fun Things We Can Do With Them

Favicons are the little icons you see in your browser tab. They help you understand which site is which when you’re scanning through your browser’s | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Dark mode and variable fonts

Not so long ago, we wrote about dark mode in CSS and I’ve been thinking about how white text on a black background is pretty much always harder to read | Continue reading


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Accessible Font Sizing, Explained

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), an organization that defines standards for web content accessibility, does not specify a minimum font | Continue reading


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Rethinking Twitter as a Serverless App

In a previous article, we showed how to build a GraphQL API with FaunaDB. We've also written a series of articles explaining how traditional databases | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Some Little Improvements to My VS Code Workflow (Workspaces, Icons, Tasks)

I did a little thing the other day that I didn't know was possible until then. I had a project folder open in VS Code like I always do, and I added | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

How to Add Lunr Search to your Gatsby Website

The Jamstack way of thinking and building websites is becoming more and more popular. Have you already tried Gatsby, Nuxt, or Gridsome (to cite only a | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Fake Code

Here's a fun little idea from Knut Synstad. You give it the URL of a GitHub Gist and it converts the Gist into grayscale rounded blobs (SVG) that sorta | Continue reading


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Building a Scalable CSS Architecture With BEM and Utility Classes

Maintaining a large-scale CSS project is hard. Over the years, we've witnessed different approaches aimed at easing the process of writing scalable CSS. | Continue reading


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Drupal to Jamstack

I've been harping for a while that Jamstack doesn't necessarily mean throwing away your old CMS. In fact, I'd argue that Jamstack is at it's most powerful | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Can JavaScript Detect the Browser’s Zoom Level?

No, not really. My first guess was that this was intentionally not exposed in browsers because browsers intentionally don't want us fighting it — or | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Creating Playful Effects With CSS Text Shadows

Let’s have a look at how we can use the CSS text-shadow property to create truly 3D-looking text. You might think of text-shadow as being able to apply | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Front-End Challenges

My favorite way to level up as a front-end developer is to do the work. Literally just build websites. If you can do it for money, great, you should. If | Continue reading


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Better Form Inputs for Better Mobile User Experiences

Here’s one simple, practical way to make apps perform better on mobile devices: always configure HTML input fields with the correct type, inputmode, and | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Thank You, Christopher Schmitt

It's incredibly sad that Christopher Schmitt passed away last week¹. I keep thinking about how Christopher was one of the best dudes I knew. Just | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Creating Color Themes With Custom Properties, HSL, and a Little calc()

Before the advent of CSS custom properties (we might call them “variables” in this article as that’s the spirit of them), implementing multiple color | Continue reading


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Jetpack Instant Search!

Jetpack has had a search feature for a while. Flip it on, and it replaces your built-in WordPress search (which is functional, but not particularly good) | Continue reading


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CSS Scrollbar With Progress Meter

Scrollbars are natural progress meters. How far the scrollbar is down or across is how much progress has been made scrolling through that element (often | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Create a Responsive CSS Motion Path? Sure We Can!

There was a discussion recently on the Animation at Work Slack: how could you make a CSS motion path responsive? What techniques would be work? This got | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

How the Vue Composition API Replaces Vue Mixins

Looking to share code between your Vue components? If you're familiar with Vue 2, you've probably used a mixin for this purpose. But the new Composition | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Using CSS to Set Text Inside a Circle

You want to set some text inside the shape of a circle with HTML and CSS? That’s crazy talk, right? Not really! Thanks to shape-outside and some pure CSS | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

No-Class CSS Frameworks

I linked up Water.css not long ago as an interesting sort of CSS framework. No classes. No

. You just use semantic HTML and get | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Styling in the Shadow DOM With CSS Shadow Parts 

Safari 13.1 just shipped support for CSS Shadow Parts. That means the ::part() selector is now supported in Chrome, Edge, Opera, Safari, and Firefox. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Thinking in Behaviors, Not Screen Sizes

Chase McCoy wrote a nifty post about the “gap problem” when making a grid of items. His argument might be summarized like this: how should we space | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Tips for Writing Animation Code Efficiently

I’ve been coding web animations and helping others do the same for years now. However, I have yet to see a concise list of tips focused on how to | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

CSS Foldable Display Polyfill

Foldable phones are starting to be a thing. Early days, for sure, but some are already shipping, and they definitely have web browsers on them. Stands to | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Creating Scheduled Push Notifications

Scheduled is the key word there — that’s a fairly new thing! When a push notification is scheduled (i.e. “Take your pill” or “You’ve got a flight in 3 | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

How to Re-Create a Nifty Netflix Animation in CSS

The design for Netflix's browse page has remained pretty similar for a few years now. One mainstay component is the preview slider that allows users to | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Centering in CSS: A Complete Guide

Centering things in CSS is the poster child of CSS complaining. Why does it have to be so hard? They jeer. I think the issue isn't that it's difficult to | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

A Grid of Logos in Squares

Let's build a literal grid of squares, and we'll put the logos of some magazines centered inside each square. I imagine plenty of you have had to build a | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Continuous Deployments for WordPress Using GitHub Actions

Continuous Integration (CI) workflows are considered a best practice these days. As in, you work with your version control system (Git), and as you do, CI | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 4 years ago

Some Typography Links

I just can't stop bookmarking great links related to typography. I'm afraid I'm going to have to subject you, yet again, to a bunch of them all grouped | Continue reading


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