This is the 3rd post in a small series we are doing on form accessibility. If you missed the 2nd post, check out Managing User Focus with :focus-visible. In this post we are going to look at using a … Demystifying Screen Readers: Accessible Forms & Best Practices originally publi … | Continue reading
This is going to be the 2nd post in a small series we are doing on form accessibility. If you missed the first post, check out Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes. In this post we are going to look … Managing User Focus with :focus-visible originally published on CSS-Tricks, whi … | Continue reading
Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post we are going to explore the use of :has() in your next web project. :has() is relatively newish but has gained popularity in the front end community by delivering control … The Power of :has() in CSS originally published on … | Continue reading
Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post, I am going to take you through creating a simple contact form using semantic HTML and an awesome CSS pseudo class known as :focus-within. The :focus-within class allows for … Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes originally … | Continue reading
These things called passkeys sure are making the rounds these days. They were a main attraction at W3C TPAC 2022, gained support in Safari 16, are finding their way into macOS and iOS, and are slated to … Passkeys: What the Heck and Why? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which … | Continue reading
I spend a lot of time in DevTools, and I’m sure you do too. Sometimes I even bounce between them, especially when I’m debugging cross-browser issues. DevTools is a lot like browsers themselves — not all of the features in … Some Cross-Browser DevTools Features You Might Not Know … | Continue reading
Doing a quick search here on CSS-Tricks shows just how many different ways there are to approach calendars. Some show how CSS Grid can create the layout efficiently. Some attempt to bring actual data into the mix. Some … Making Calendars With Accessibility and Internationalizatio … | Continue reading
You know what it’s like to pick up a new language or framework. Sometimes there’s great documentation to help you find your way through it. But even the best documentation doesn’t cover absolutely everything. And when you work with something … 5 Mistakes I Made When Starting My F … | Continue reading
CSS trigonometry functions are here! Well, they are if you’re using the latest versions of Firefox and Safari, that is. Having this sort of mathematical power in CSS opens up a whole bunch of possibilities. In this tutorial, I thought … Creating a Clock with the New CSS sin() and … | Continue reading
Fonts are a defining characteristic of the design of any site. That includes WordPress themes, where it’s common for theme developers to integrate a service like Google Fonts into the WordPress Customizer settings for a “classic” PHP-based theme. That hasn’t … Managing Fonts in W … | Continue reading
I was reading “Creative List Styling” on Google’s web.dev blog and noticed something odd in one of the code examples in the ::marker section of the article. The built-in list markers are bullets, ordinal numbers, and letters. The ::marker pseudo-element … Everything You Need to K … | Continue reading
We’re fans of Custom Elements around here. Their design makes them particularly amenable to lazy loading, which can be a boon for performance. Inspired by a colleague’s experiments, I recently set about writing a simple auto-loader: Whenever a custom … An Approach to Lazy Loading … | Continue reading
It’s a question I hear asked quite often: Is it possible to create shadows from gradients instead of solid colors? There is no specific CSS property that does this (believe me, I’ve looked) and any blog post you find about … Different Ways to Get CSS Gradient Shadows originally p … | Continue reading
Every now and then, a one blog post is published and it spurs a reaction or response in others that are, in turn, published as blogs posts, and a theme starts to emerge. That’s what happened this past week and … Healthcare, Selling Lemons, and the Price of Developer Experience or … | Continue reading
We often think of background images as texture or something that provides contrast for legible content — in other words, not really content. If it was content, you’d probably reach for an anyway, accessibility and whatnot. But there are … Moving Backgrounds originally published … | Continue reading
Geez, leave it to Patrick Brosset to talk CSS performance in the most approachable and practical way possible. Not that CSS is always what’s gunking up the speed, or even the lowest hanging fruit when it comes to improving … The truth about CSS selector performance originally pub … | Continue reading
I used to have this boss who loved, loved, loved, loved to emphasize words. This was way back before we used a WYSIWYG editors and I’d have to handcode that crap. | Continue reading
Do you know that kind of effect where someone’s head is poking through a circle or hole? The famous Porky Pig animation where he waves goodbye while popping out of a series of red rings is the perfect example, and … A Fancy Hover Effect For Your Avatar originally published on CSS … | Continue reading
My previous post was a broad overview of SvelteKit where we saw what a great tool it is for web development. This post will fork off what we did there and dive into every developer’s favorite topic: caching. So, … Caching Data in SvelteKit originally published on CSS-Tricks, whic … | Continue reading
Tucked down somewhere in the Safari Technology Preview 161 release notes is a seemingly innocous line about support for a new HTML element and attribute: Added support for and honor attributes (257518@main) Anytime I … AR, VR, and a Model for 3D in HTML originally published on … | Continue reading
I’m pleased to shine a light on the fact that the CSS grid-template-rows and grid-template-columns properties are now animatable in all major web browsers! Well, CSS Grid has technically supported animations for a long time, as it’s baked right … Animating CSS Grid (How To + Exam … | Continue reading
SvelteKit is the latest of what I’d call next-gen application frameworks. It, of course, scaffolds an application for you, with the file-based routing, deployment, and server-side rendering that Next has done forever. But SvelteKit also supports nested layouts, server mutations … … | Continue reading
The :has() pseudo-class is, hands-down, my favorite new CSS feature. I know it is for many of you as well, at least those of you who took the State of CSS survey. The ability to write selectors upside down … More Real-World Uses for :has() originally published on CSS-Tricks, whic … | Continue reading
While I am not a regular Chrome extension programmer, I have certainly coded enough extensions and have a wide enough web development portfolio to know my way around the task. However, just recently, I had a client reject one of … How to Transition to Manifest V3 for Chrome Exten … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever worked on sites with lots of long-form text — especially CMS sites where people can enter screeds of text in a WYSIWYG editor — you’ve likely had to write CSS to manage the vertical spacing between different … Solved With :has(): Vertical Spacing in Long-Form Text … | Continue reading
Someone recently asked me how I approach debugging inline SVGs. Because it is part of the DOM, we can inspect any inline SVG in any browser DevTools. And because of that, we have the ability to scope things out and … 6 Common SVG Fails (and How to Fix Them) originally published o … | Continue reading
A little thing happened on the way to publishing the CSS :has() selector to the ol’ Almanac. I had originally described :has() as a “forgiving” selector, the idea being that anything in its argument is evaluated, even if one or … :has is an unforgiving selector originally publish … | Continue reading
The good ol’ tag is the most semantic HTML for showing tabular data. But I find it very hard to control how the table is presented, particularly column widths in a dynamic environment where you might not know how … Faking Min Width on a Table Column originally published on CSS-T … | Continue reading
A little while back, Ganesh Dahal penned a post here on CSS-Tricks responding to a tweet that asked about adding CSS box shadows on WordPress blocks and elements. There’s a lot of great stuff in there that leverages new features … Styling Buttons in WordPress Block Themes origina … | Continue reading
You know, this is the time of year where Chris normally publishes a big ol’ reflection of the past year. The first one was published in 2007, the same year CSS-Tricks began, and it continued all the way through 2021… Thank You (2022 Edition) originally published on CSS-Tricks, wh … | Continue reading
We’ve started making a tradition of rounding up the latest front-end research at the end of each year. We did it in 2020 and again in 2021. Reports are released throughout the year by a bunch of different companies … 2022 Roundup of Web Research originally published on CSS-Tricks … | Continue reading
CSS Nesting is making the rounds yet again. Remember earlier this year when Adam and Mia put three syntax options up for a vote? Those results were tallied and it wasn’t even even close. Now there’s another chance … Help choose the syntax for CSS Nesting originally published on C … | Continue reading
Being able to quickly spin up a WordPress instance has been the strength of WordPress ever since its famous “five-minute install”. Upload a few files, configure a few settings, and you’re off. The friction of uploading files has gotten … WordPress Playground: Running WordPress in … | Continue reading
In this series, we’ve been making image sliders with nothing but HTML and CSS. The idea is that we can use the same markup but different CSS to get wildly different results, no matter how many images we toss … CSS Infinite 3D Sliders originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is p … | Continue reading
The CSS Working Group gave that a thumbs-up a couple weeks ago. The super-duper conceptual proposal being that we can animate or transition from, say, display: block to display: none. It’s a bit of a brain-twister to reason … So, you’d like to animate the display property origina … | Continue reading
Every so often, I find that the links I save to read later fall into natural groups or patterns that reveal common threads of interest. The past couple of weeks have produced a lot of thoughts about ChatGPT, an … Some Links on AI-Related Stuff originally published on CSS-Tricks, … | Continue reading
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We’ve got ourselves a real holiday treat! Join host Alex Trost from the Frontend Horse community for the Holiday Snowtacular 2022 this Friday, December 16. There’s a lineup of 12 awesome speakers — including Chris Coyier, Cassidy Williams, Kevin … Holiday Snowtacular 2022 origina … | Continue reading
CSS Container Queries are still gaining traction and many of us are getting our hands wet with them, even if it’s for little experiments or whatnot. They’ve got great, but not quite full, browser support — enough to justify using … A Few Times Container Size Queries Would Have He … | Continue reading
Sara Soueidan with everything you need, from what screen reading options are out there all the way to setting up virtual machines for them, installing them, and confguring keyboard options. It’s truly a one-stop reference that pulls together disparate … Setting up a screen reader … | Continue reading
We’ve accomplished a bunch of stuff in this series! We created a custom WordPress block that fetches data from an external API and renders it on the front end. Then we took that work and extended it so the data … Saving Settings for a Custom WordPress Block in the Block Editor or … | Continue reading
In the last article, we made a pretty cool little slider (or “carousel” if that’s what you prefer) that rotates in a circular direction. This time we are going to make one that flips through a stack of Polaroid … CSS Infinite Slider Flipping Through Polaroid Images originally pub … | Continue reading
How often to do you reach for the CSS background-size property? If you’re like me — and probably lots of other front-end folks — then it’s usually when you background-size: cover an image to fill the space of an entire … Animated Background Stripes That Transition on Hover origin … | Continue reading
The CSS box-shadow and outline properties gained theme.json support in WordPress 6.1. Let's look at a few examples of how it works in real themes, and what options we have to apply these styles to WordPress blocks and elements. Adding Box Shadows to WordPress Blocks and Elements … | Continue reading
Nothing but ear-to-ear smiles as I was watching this video from @quayjn on YouTube. (No actual name in the byline, though I think it’s Brian Katz if my paper trail is correct). The best is this Pen you can … CSS is OK, I guess. originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of … | Continue reading
For years, a small pedantry war has been raging in our address bars. In one corner are brands like Google, Instagram, and Facebook. This group has chosen to redirect example.com to www.example.com. In the opposite corner: … Does WWW still belong in URLs? originally published on C … | Continue reading
Image sliders (also called carousels) are everywhere. There are a lot of CSS tricks to create the common slider where the images slide from left to right (or the opposite). It’s the same deal with the many JavaScript libraries out … CSS Infinite and Circular Rotating Image Slider … | Continue reading
I wrote up some early thoughts on container style queries a little while back. It’s still early days. They’re already defined in the CSS Containment Module Level 1 specification (currently in Editor’s Draft status) but there’s still a couple of … Digging Deeper Into Container Sty … | Continue reading