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
Let’s acknowledge that developing for WordPress is weird right now. Whether you’re new to WordPress or have worked with it for eons, the introduction of “Full-Site Editing” (FSE) features, including the Block Editor (WordPress 5.0) and the Site Editor (WordPress … Getting Started … | 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
Did you know that DOM elements with IDs are accessible in JavaScript as global variables? It’s one of those things that’s been around, like, forever but I’m really digging into it for the first time. If this is the first … Named Element IDs Can Be Referenced as JavaScript Globals … | 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
If we browse the WordPress theme directory, a majority of themes showcase cover images. It is a feature in popular demand. The cover page trend is true even in the block theme directory screenshots as well. Let’s consider the … How To Customize WordPress Block Theme Cover Templat … | 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
SVG is the best format for icons on a website, there is no doubt about that. It allows you to have sharp icons no matter the screen pixel density, you can change the styles of the SVG on hover … How I Made an Icon System Out of CSS Custom Properties originally published on CSS-Tr … | 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
On one hand, creating simple checkered backgrounds with CSS is easy. On the other hand, though, unless we are one of the CSS-gradient-ninjas, we are kind of stuck with basic patterns. At least that’s what I thought while staring at … CSS Checkerboard Background… But With Rounded … | 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
A lot of chatter around the ol’ and elements lately! I saw Lea Verou recently tweet an observation about the element’s display behavior and that sorta splintered into more observations and usage notes from folks, including a revived … More Details on `details` originally publis … | 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
Whew boy, Safari 16 is officially out in the wild and it packs in a bunch of features, some new and exciting (Subgrid! Container Queries! Font Palettes!) and others we’ve been waiting on for better cross-browser support (Motion Path! Overscroll … WebKit Features in Safari 16.0 or … | 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
Figma has always encouraged collaboration between developers and designers. It strives on an endless treasury of community-made plugins. Need 3D elements? There’s a plugin for that. Need abstract SVGs? There’s a plugin for that, too. That said, the design part of Figma has … Buil … | 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
Browsers are constantly adding new HTML, JavaScript and CSS features. Here are some useful additions to working with forms that you might have missed… requestSubmit() Safari 16 will be the final browser to add support for requestSubmit. Before we … What’s New With Forms in 2022? … | 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
CSS-only Wolfenstein is a little project that I made a few weeks ago. It was an experiment with CSS 3D transformations and animations. Inspired by the FPS demo and another Wolfenstein CodePen, I decided to build my own version. … Hacking CSS Animation State and Playback Time orig … | 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
Those of you who have been reading CSS-Tricks for a while may remember that we used to publish a little thing we called CSS-Tricks Chronicles. Our friend Chris Coyier would write up a reflection from the past couple of … Behind the CSScenes, September 2022 originally published on … | 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
Ahmad Shadeed got an early jump on container queries and has a growing collection of examples based on everyday patterns. And, if you missed it, his latest post on container queries does a wonderful job covering how they work since … iShadeed’s Container Queries Lab originally pu … | 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
Whenever we build simple or complex layouts using CSS Grid, we’re usually positioning items with line numbers. Grid layouts contain grid lines that are automatically indexed with positive and negative line numbers (that is unless we explicitly name them). … Using Grid Named Areas … | 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
If a utility class only does one thing, chances are you don’t want it to be overridden by any styles coming from elsewhere. One approach is to use !important to be 100% certain the style will be applied, regardless of … Using CSS Cascade Layers to Manage Custom Styles in a Tailwi … | 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
Alright, so the last time we checked in, we were using CSS Grid and combining them with CSS clip-path and mask techniques to create grids with fancy shapes. Here’s just one of the fantastic grids we made together: CodePen… CSS Grid and Custom Shapes, Part 2 originally published o … | 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
If the thought of handwriting code seems silly, it might surprise you to know that it’s inevitable. If you’re unsure, think about the last job interview you did, and remember how there was no computer around in the interview room … Why (and How) I Write Code With Pencil and Paper … | 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
If you use VS Code, you might have enabled the setting for re-opening a previously open file next time the app launches. I do. I like that. Hey, thanks for remembering, buddy! 🤗 But sometimes you really, really don’t want … Quick Tip: Clear VS Code Cache for Open Files or … | 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
The time for CSS-Tricks is over. Now is the time for CSS Crimes! In this current landscape of content service providers, users are often limited to expressing themselves in text, links, and images. Sanitization rules tend to strip out HTML, … Committing CSS Crimes originally publ … | 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
CSS Scroll Snap allows websites to snap the web page or any other scroll container to a specific scroll position when the user performs a scrolling operation. This feature has been supported in all modern browsers for over two years, … How I Added Scroll Snapping To My Twitter Ti … | 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
With speech interfaces becoming more of a thing, it’s worth exploring some of the things we can do with speech interactions. Like, what if we could say something and have that transcribed and pumped out as a downloadable PDF? Well, … Converting Speech to PDF with NextJS and Expre … | Continue reading
Dave Rupert with some modern CSS magic that tackles one of those classic conundrums: what happens when the CSS for component is unable to handle the content we throw at it? The specific situation is when a layout grid expects … Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Dang … | Continue reading
When working with CSS Grid, the first thing to do is to set display: grid on the element that we want to be become a grid container. Then we explicitly define the grid using a combination of grid-template-columns, grid-template-rows… Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Pl … | Continue reading
Chris calls scroll shadows one his favorite CSS-Tricks of all time. Lea Verou popularized the pure CSS approach using four layered background gradients with some clever background-attachment magic. The result is a slick scrolling interaction that gives users a hint … Scroll Shado … | Continue reading
It’s no secret that MDN rolled out a new design back in March. It’s gorgeous! And there are some sweet CSS-y gems in it that are fun to look at. One of those gems is how card components handle truncated … Recreating MDN’s Truncated Text Effect originally published on CSS-Tricks. … | Continue reading
URL Shorteners are tools we use to make links shorter than they actually are. With a URL Shortener, you can transform a long link (maybe for a registration form or article) into a shorter version. Behind the scenes, the long … Why I Chose Angular to Build a URL Shortener original … | Continue reading
Michelle Barker with my favorite sorta blog post: short, practical, and leaves you with a valuable nugget for your time. Here, she gets into logical property shorthands in CSS, particularly those that set lengths just on a single axis, … Logical Properties for Useful Shorthands o … | Continue reading
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I think it’s super timely that Jim Nielson wrote about his office space the other day. My family recently re-rooted in Colorado and I was up late last night setting up my desk and everything around it. So late, in … Office Spaces originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get … | Continue reading