Embracing the Universal Web

There are constantly new features appearing in browsers—from subgrid to variable fonts to better developer tools. It's a really great time to be | Continue reading


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It’s my job, and yours.

The role of ethics in our modern web space has been on my mind for the past few years and I suspect it will occupy my thoughts increasingly as I move | Continue reading


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The future is bright, because the future is static

I've been doing this web thing for money for 10 years this year and although I haven’t been around as long as some folks, I feel like I've seen a few | Continue reading


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The Typed Object Model

I help write technical documentation and one feature I've been writing about this year that has really stood out is the Typed Object Model (or Typed OM). | Continue reading


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Techniques for a Newspaper Layout with CSS Grid and Border Lines Between Elements

I recently had to craft a newspaper-like design that featured multiple row and column spans with divider lines in between them. Take a look at the mockup | Continue reading


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Variations on Theme: Reinventing Type on the Web

If anyone knows anything about me, it’s usually one of two things: that I have two outrageously fluffy dogs, or that I like fonts and typography. Like, | Continue reading


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No, Absolutely Not

I think the difference between a junior and senior front-end developer isn't in their understanding or familiarity with a particular tech stack, | Continue reading


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JAMstack, Fugu, and Houdini

What has me really excited about building websites recently is the fact that we, as front-end developers, have the power to do so much more. Only a few | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Oh, the Places JavaScript Will Go

I tend to be pretty vocal about the problems client-side JavaScript cause from a performance perspective. We're shipping more JavaScript than ever to our | Continue reading


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How Do You Remove Unused CSS From a Site?

Here's what I'd like you to know upfront: this is a hard problem. If you've landed here because you're hoping to be pointed at a tool you can run that | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

The Tools are Here

Heading into 2020, it occurs to me that I've now been making websites for 20 years. Looking back on that time, it seems as though our practices have been | Continue reading


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Teaching CSS

I've been using CSS as a web developer since CSS became something we could actually use. My first websites were built using tags and s for layout. I | Continue reading


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The Communal Cycle of Sharing

What I'm interested in this year is how we're continuing to expand on tools, services, and shared side projects to collectively guide where we take the | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

The Kind of Development I Like

I'm turning 40 next year (yikes!) and even though I've been making websites for over 25 years, I feel like I'm finally beginning to understand the kind of | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

We asked web developers we admire: “What about building websites has you interested this year?”

For the first time ever here on CSS-Tricks, we're going to do an end-of-year series of posts. Like an Advent calendar riff, only look at us, we're beating | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Ways to Organize and Prepare Images for a Blur-Up Effect Using Gatsby

Gatsby does a great job processing and handling images. For example, it helps you save time with image optimization because you don’t have to manually | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

JAMstack CMSs Have Finally Grown Up!

This article is based on Brian's presentation at Connect.Tech 2019. Slides with speaker notes from that presentation are available to download. In my | Continue reading


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The Amazingly Useful Tools from Yoksel

I find myself web searching for some tool by Yoksel at least every month. I figured I'd list out some of my favorites here in case you aren't aware of | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Weekly Platform News: Internet Explorer Mode, Speed Report in Search Console, Restricting Notification Prompts

In this week's roundup: Internet Explorer finds its way into Edge, Google Search Console touts a new speed report, and Firefox gives Facebook's | Continue reading


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Some CSS Grid Strategies for Matching Design Mockups

The world of web development has always had a gap between the design-to-development handoff. Ambitious designers want the final result of their effort to | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Finally, it Will Be Easy to Change the Color of List Bullets

In my germinating years, the general advice was this: List item li { color: red; } /* bullet */ li span (color: black; } /* text */ Not terrible, but not | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Oh Hey, Padding Percentage is Based on the Parent Element’s Width

I learned something about percentage-based (%) padding today that I had totally wrong in my head! I always thought that percentage padding was based on | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Thoughts After Looking at the Web Almanac’s Chapter on CSS

Woah, I didn't see this coming! The HTTP Archive dropped this big "state of the web" report called Web Almanac with guest writers exploring data from 5.8 | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

An Early Look at the Vue 3 Composition API in the Wild

I recently had an opportunity to try the new Vue Composition API in a real project to check where it might be useful and how we could use it in the | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Making an Audio Waveform Visualizer with Vanilla JavaScript

As a UI designer, I’m constantly reminded of the value of knowing how to code. I pride myself on thinking of the developers on my team while designing | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

When to Use SVG vs. When to Use Canvas

SVG and canvas are both technologies that can draw stuff in web browsers, so they are worth comparing and understanding when one is more suitable than the | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

A Super Weird CSS Bug That Affects Text Selection

You know how you can style (to some degree) selected text with ::selection? Well, Jeff Starr uncovered a heck of a weird CSS bug. If you: Leave that | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Pac-Man… in CSS!

You all know famous Pac-Man video game, right? The game is fun and building an animated Pac-Man character in HTML and CSS is just as fun! I’ll show you | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Two-Value Display Syntax (and Sometimes Three)

You know the single-value syntax: .thing { display: block; }. The value "block" being a single value. There are lots of single values for display. For | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Working with Fusebox and React

If you are searching for an alternative bundler to webpack, you might want to take a look at FuseBox. It builds on what webpack offers — code-splitting, | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Weekly Platform News: Web Apps in Galaxy Store, Tappable Stories, CSS Subgrid

In this week's roundup: Firefox gains locksmith-like powers, Samsung's Galaxy Store starts supporting Progressive Web Apps, CSS Subgrid is shipping in | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Optimizing Images for Users with Slow Network Speeds

For every website, page load time is a critical factor that can make or break the business. Thanks to the better user experience that comes with a | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Some Things You Oughta Know When Working with Viewport Units

David Chanin has a quickie article summarizing a problem with setting an element's height to 100vh in mobile browsers and then also positioning something | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

What is super() in JavaScript?

What's happening when you see some JavaScript that calls super()?.In a child class, you use super() to call its parent’s constructor and super. to access | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Netlify CMS Open Authoring

I like the term "Git-backed CMS." That term works for an emerging style of CMS that looks and behaves much like any other CMS, with a fascinating twist: | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Show Search Button when Search Field is Non-Empty

I think the :placeholder-shown selector is tremendously cool. It allows you to select the placeholder of an input () when that placeholder is present. | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Making a Chart? Try Using Mobx State Tree to Power the Data

Who loves charts? Everyone, right? There are lots of ways to create them, including a number of libraries. There’s D3.js, Chart.js, amCharts, Highcharts, | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Float Element in the Middle of a Paragraph

Say you want to have an image (or any other element) visually float left into a paragraph of text. But like... in the middle of the paragraph, not right | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

The Trick to Animating the Dot on the Letter “i”

Here’s the trick: by combining the Turkish letter "ı" and the period "." we can create something that looks like the letter "i," but is made from two | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Become a Front-End Master in 2020 With These 10 Project Ideas

This is a little updated cross-post from a quickie article I wrote on DEV. I'm publishing here 'cuz I'm all IndieWeb like that. I love this post by Simon | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

A Look at JAMstack’s Speed, By the Numbers

People say JAMstack sites are fast — let’s find out why by looking at real performance metrics! We’ll cover common metrics, like Time to First Byte | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Comparing the Different Types of Native JavaScript Popups

JavaScript has a variety of built-in popup APIs that display special UI for user interaction. Famously: alert("Hello, World!"); The UI for this varies | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Build a 100% Serverless REST API with Firebase Functions & FaunaDB

Indie and enterprise web developers alike are pushing toward a serverless architecture for modern applications. Serverless architectures typically scale | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Are There Random Numbers in CSS?

CSS allows you to create dynamic layouts and interfaces on the web, but as a language, it is static: once a value is set, it cannot be changed. The idea | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Learn to Make Your Site Inclusive, by Design

Accessibility is our job. We hear it all the time. But the truth is that it often takes a back seat to competing priorities, deadlines, and decisions from | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

The Current State of Styling Selects in 2019

Best I could tell from the last time I compiled the most wished-for features of CSS, styling form controls was a major ask. Top 5, I'd say. And of the | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

A Business Case for Dropping Internet Explorer

The distance between Internet Explorer (IE) 11 and every other major browser is an increasingly gaping chasm. Adding support for a technologically | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Animated Position of Focus Ring

Maurice Mahan created FocusOverlay, a "library for creating overlays on focused elements." That description is a little confusing at you don't need a | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago