An Event Apart 2022 Denver wrapped up yesterday. And while I was unable to make it to all three days this time, I did catch yesterday’s action — and it was awesome. I’m not very social or outgoing, but … Some Things I Took Away From An Event Apart 2022 in Denver originally publis … | Continue reading

We’re still in suuuuuper early days with container queries. Too early for broad browser support, but Chromium already supports it, Safari started supporting it in version 16, and Firefox is presumably not far behind. Most early days conversations … Early Days of Container Style Q … | Continue reading

Fluid typography is a fancy way of “describing font properties, such as size or line height, that scale fluidly according to the size of the viewport”. It’s also known by other names, like responsive typography, flexible type, fluid type, … Adding Fluid Typography Support to Word … | Continue reading

In my previous post we looked at Shoelace, which is a component library with a full suite of UX components that are beautiful, accessible, and — perhaps unexpectedly — built with Web Components. This means they can be used … Using Web Components With Next (or Any SSR Framework) o … | Continue reading

This is a post about Shoelace, a component library by Cory LaViska, but with a twist. It defines all your standard UX components: tabs, modals, accordions, auto-completes, and much, much more. They look beautiful out of the … Introducing Shoelace, a Framework-Independent Componen … | Continue reading

So you want an auto-playing looping video without sound? In popular vernacular this is the very meaning of the word GIF. The word has stuck around but the image format itself is ancient and obsolete. Twitter, for example, has … GIFs Without the .gif: The Most Performant Image and … | Continue reading

The wave is probably one of the most difficult shapes to make in CSS. We always try to approximate it with properties like border-radius and lots of magic numbers until we get something that feels kinda close. And that’s before … How to Create Wavy Shapes & Patterns in CSS origin … | Continue reading

The video of Chris Coyier’s talk at CascadiaJS 2022 is now available. It’s his first in-person talk in more than two years, so it’s great to see our good friend back on stage slinging gems on what makes the web … The Web is Good Now originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is pa … | Continue reading

The latest spec: A style rule is a qualified rule that associates a selector list with a list of property declarations and possibly a list of nested rules. They are also called rule sets in CSS2. Louis Lazaris: As the above quote from W3C indicates, it seems … CSS Rules vs. CSS … | Continue reading

Gradients have been a part of the CSS spectrum for quite some time now. We see a lot of radial and linear gradients in a lot of projects, but there is one type of gradient that seems to be a … Making a Real-Time Clock With a Conic Gradient Face originally published on CSS-Tricks, … | Continue reading

Using CSS, it’s possible to prevent users from selecting text within an element using user-select: none. Now, it’s understandable why doing so might be considered “controversial”. I mean, should we be disabling standard user behaviors? Generally speaking, no, we … When is it OK t … | Continue reading

You’ve probably heard a lot of hype around one of the newest kids on the framework block, Remix. It may be surprising that it got its start back in 2019, but it was originally only available as a subscription-based premium … The Basics of Remix originally published on CSS-Tricks, … | Continue reading

I recently discovered the joy of creating CSS-only games. It’s always fascinating how HTML and CSS are capable of handling the logic of an entire online game, so I had to try it! Such games usually rely on the ol’ … How I Made a Pure CSS Puzzle Game originally published on CSS-Tr … | Continue reading

As the name suggests, overlapping charts visualize two different sets of data in a single diagram. The idea is that the overlapping bars allow us to compare data, say, year-over-year. They are also useful for things like tracking progress for … Overlapping Bar Charts originally p … | Continue reading

I started as a front-end web developer and then became a Flutter developer. I think there were some concepts that helped me adopt Flutter easier. There were also some new concepts that were different. In this article, I want to … Flutter For Front-End Web Developers originally pu … | Continue reading

A screen reader is an important accessibility tool for people with no or limited vision. People who are blind or those with low vision can use a screen reader to navigate the computer. Screen readers will read contents on the … Comparing JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver originally publi … | Continue reading

We can make variables in CSS pretty easily: :root { --scale: 1; } And we can declare them on any element: .thing { transform: scale(var(--scale)); } Even better for an example like this is applying the variable on a user … Interpolating Numeric CSS Variables originally publishe … | Continue reading

Neither do I! And that’s probably because there’s a lot happening in WordPress-land. The evolution towards full-site editing (FSE) introduces frequent changes to the way we build themes and plugins, and at such break-neck speed that the documentation itself is … Not Sure How to W … | Continue reading

The GOV.UK team recently published “How and why we removed jQuery from GOV.UK“. This was an insightful look at how an organization can assess its tooling and whether something is still the best tool for the job. This … Removing jQuery from GOV.UK originally published on CSS-Trick … | Continue reading

That ain’t rhetorical: I’m really interested in finding great use cases for CSS multi-column layouts. The answer seems straightforward. Use columns when you want to split any content into columns, right? Here is generally the sort of example you’ll find … When Do You Use CSS Colu … | Continue reading

In a previous article, I looked at CSS Grid’s ability to create complex layouts using its auto-placement powers. I took that one step further in another article that added a zooming hover effect to images in a grid layout… CSS Grid and Custom Shapes, Part 1 originally published o … | Continue reading

Designing a beautiful “article” is wrought with tons of considerations. Unlike, say, a homepage, a long-form article is less about designing an interface than it is designing text in a way that creates a relaxed and comfortable reading experience. That’s … Designing for Long-Form … | Continue reading

Creating a grid of images is easy, thanks to CSS Grid. But making the grid do fancy things after the images have been placed can be tricky to pull off. Say you want to add some fancy hover effect to … Zooming Images in a Grid Layout originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is pa … | Continue reading

Apple unveiled an expanded version of its San Francisco system font at WWDC 2022. Then, last month, Jim Nielsen zeroed in on the font’s variations, explaining how the font provides a spectrum of variations based on the width and weight… Actually, the San Francisco Typeface Does S … | Continue reading