CSS Animation Libraries

There are an awful lot of libraries that want to help you animate things on the web. These aren't really libraries that help you with the syntax or the | Continue reading


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How I Created a Code Beautifier in Two Days

I recently drew up a wireframe for a code beautifier. The next day, I decided to turn it into a real tool. The whole project took less than two days to | Continue reading


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What the Web Needs Now (and how ARTIFACT is here for it)

I recently had the pleasure of joining Dave Rupert, Chris Coyier, and Chris Ferdinandi on the Shop Talk Show to talk about the upcoming ARTIFACT | Continue reading


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Weekly Platform News: CSS ::marker pseudo-element, pre-rendering web components, adding Webmention to your site

In this week's roundup: datepickers are giving keyboard users headaches, a new web component compiler that helps fight FOUC, we finally get our hands on styling list item markers, and four steps to getting webmentions on your site. | Continue reading


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Using GraphQL Playground with Gatsby

I’m assuming most of you have already heard about Gatsby, and at least loosely know that it’s basically a static site generator for React sites. It | Continue reading


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Get Peak WordPress Performance with Jetpack

The irony of web performance is that the average page weight of a site continues to go up year after year, despite us being more aware of the problem and | Continue reading


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Multi-Line Truncation with Pure CSS

Truncating a single line of text if is fairly straightforward. Truncating multiple lines is a bit harder. Using just CSS (no JavaScript or server-side | Continue reading


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Improving Video Accessibility with WebVTT

“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.” – Tim Berners-Lee Accessibility is an important element of web d… | Continue reading


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Micro Frontends

One random day not long ago, I started hearing joke after joke about “micro frontends” — sort of how I first learned about Toast. I didn’t understand the source until asking… | Continue reading


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A Peek at New Methods Coming to Promises

Promises are one of the most celebrated features introduced to JavaScript. Having a native asynchronous artifact baked right into the language has opened | Continue reading


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Finally… A Post on Finally in Promises

“When does finally fire in a JavaScript promise?” This is a question I was asked in a recent workshop and I thought I’d write up a little post to clear up | Continue reading


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Managing Multiple Backgrounds with Custom Properties

One cool thing about CSS custom properties is that they can be a part of a value. Let's say you're using multiple backgrounds to pull off a a design. Each | Continue reading


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Build a Chat App Using React Hooks in 100 Lines of Code

We’ve looked at React Hooks before, around here at CSS-Tricks. I have an article that introduces them as well that illustrates how to use them to create | Continue reading


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Position Sticky and Table Headers

You can't position: sticky; a . Nor a . But you can sticky a , which means you can make sticky headers inside a regular ol' . This is tricky stuff, | Continue reading


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Color Inputs: A Deep Dive into Cross-Browser Differences

In this article, we'll be taking a look at the structure inside elements, browser inconsistencies, why they look a certain way in a certain browser, and | Continue reading


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Weekly Platform News: HTML Inspection in Search Console, Global Scope of Scripts, Babel env Adds defaults Query

In this week's look around the world of web platform news, Google Search Console makes it easier to view crawled markup, we learn that custom properties | Continue reading


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Protecting Vue Routes with Navigation Guards

Authentication is a necessary part of every web application. It is a handy means by which we can personalize experiences and load content specific to a | Continue reading


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The Fight Against Layout Jank

A web page isn't locked in stone just because it has rendered visually. Media assets, like images, can come in and cause the layout to shift based on | Continue reading


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Types or Tests: Why Not Both?

Every now and then, a debate flares up about the value of typed JavaScript. "Just write more tests!" yell some opponents. "Replace unit tests with types!" | Continue reading


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Introducing Netlify Analytics

You work a while on a side project. You think it's pretty cool! You decide to release it into the world. And then… it goes well. Or it doesn’t go well. | Continue reading


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IndieWeb and Webmentions

The IndieWeb is a thing! They've got a conference coming up and everything. The New Yorker is even writing about it: Proponents of the IndieWeb offer a | Continue reading


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Animating with Clip-Path

clip-path is one of those CSS properties we generally know is there but might not reach for often for whatever reason. It’s a little intimidating in the | Continue reading


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The Many Ways to Include CSS in JavaScript Applications

Welcome to an incredibly controversial topic in the land of front-end development! I’m sure that a majority of you reading this have encountered your fair | Continue reading


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A Little Reminder That Pseudo Elements are Children, Kinda.

Here's a container with some child elements: item item item If I do: .container::before { content: "x" } I'm essentially doing: ]] item item item Which | Continue reading


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Five Methods for Five-Star Ratings

In the world of likes and social statistics, reviews are very important method for leaving feedback. Users often like to know the opinions of others | Continue reading


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PSA: Linking to a Code of Conduct Template is Not the Same as Having a Code of Conduct

Did you know we have a site that lists all upcoming conferences related to front-end web design and development? We do! If you're looking to go to one, | Continue reading


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The Twelfth Fourth

CSS-Tricks is 12 years old! Firmly into that Early Adolescence stage, I'd say ;) As we do each year, let's reflect upon the past year. I'd better have | Continue reading


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CSS-Tricks on Flywheel

I first heard of Flywheel through their product Local, which is a native app for working on WordPress sites. If you ask around for what people use for | Continue reading


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Menus with “Dynamic Hit Areas”

Flyout menus! The second you need to implement a menu that uses a hover event to display more menu items, you're in tricky territory. For one, they should | Continue reading


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Hey, let’s create a functional calendar app with the JAMstack

Hey, let's create a functional calendar app with the JAMstack I’ve always wondered how dynamic scheduling worked so I decided to do extensive research, | Continue reading


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Haunted: Hooks for Web Components

I was just chatting with Dave and he told me about Haunted. It's hooks, but for native web components! Pretty cool. I think the existence of stuff like | Continue reading


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Graphical User Interfaces for Git

Git is command-line-driven software, but that doesn't mean you have to use the command line to make it work. There are lots of options! Some of the | Continue reading


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Toast

One day, all the sudden, I started hearing jokes about toast. I had no idea what the context was. I assumed some friends just got started telling toast | Continue reading


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Restricting a (pseudo) element to its parent’s border-box

Have you ever wanted to ensure that nothing of a (pseudo) element gets displayed outside its parent's border-box? In case you're having trouble picturing | Continue reading


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Tips for rolling your own lazy loading

You may have heard (or even issued the call) that “we can just use lazy loading!” when looking for a way to slim down a particularly heavy web page. Lazy | Continue reading


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Making width and flexible items play nice together

The short answer: flex-shrink and flex-basis are probably what you’re lookin’ for. | Continue reading


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The (Developer’s) Growth Model

I really like the post "The Designer’s Growth Model" by Dennis Hambeukers. Dennis just invented this model, but it's based on some existing ideas and it | Continue reading


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Weekly Platform News: Event Timing, Google Earth for Web, undead session cookies

In this week's news, Wikipedia helps identify three slow click handlers, Google Earth comes to the web, SVG properties in CSS get more support, and what to do in the event of zombie cookies. | Continue reading


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Which CSS IS AWESOME makes the most sense if you don’t know CSS well?

Peter-Paul posted this question: Which of the examples in the image do you consider correct?If you know CSS well, don't reply, just retweet. If you | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Different Approaches for Creating a Staggered Animation

Animating elements, at its most basic, is fairly straightforward. Define the keyframes. Name the animation. Call it on an element. But sometimes we need | Continue reading


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Using Percy to add visual testing to a Jekyll site

Visual testing is the automated process of reviewing software from a purely visual standpoint. Instead of testing the code underneath, visual testing is | Continue reading


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Three Predictions From the State of CSS 2019 Survey

Running a developer survey like the State of CSS is a multi-stage process. First, you need to collect the data. Then, you process it into a usable shape. | Continue reading


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Getting to Know the useReducer React Hook

useReducer is one of a handful of React hooks that shipped in React 16.7.0. It accepts a reducer function with the application initial state, returns the | Continue reading


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Spam Detection APIs

I was trying to research the landscape of these the other day — And by research, I mean light Googling and asking on Twitter. Weirdly, very little | Continue reading


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Building a Conference Schedule with CSS Grid

It’s hard to beat the feeling of finding a perfect use for a new technology. You can read every handy primer under the sun and ooh-and-ahh at flashy | Continue reading


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Reduced Motion Picture Technique, Take Two

Did you see that neat technique for using the element with to serve an animated image (or not) based on a prefers-reduced-motion media query? After we | Continue reading


@css-tricks.com | 5 years ago

Weekly Platform News: Mozilla’s AV1 Encoder, Samsung One UI CSS, DOM Matches Method

In this week's weekly roundup, Vimeo and Mozilla partner up on a video encoding format, how to bind instructions to to form fields using aria labels, the DOM has a matching function, and Samsung is working on its own CSS library. | Continue reading


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Managing WordPress Metadata in Gutenberg Using a Sidebar Plugin

WordPress released their anticipated over to the post editor, nicknamed Gutenberg, which is also referred to as the block editor. It transforms a | Continue reading


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