One of the main goals of the WordPress Site Editor (and, yes, that is now the “official” name) is to move basic block styling from CSS to structured JSON. JSON files are machine-readable, which makes it consumable by … Using The New Constrained Layout In WordPress Block Themes or … | Continue reading
I’m a sucker for anything about front-end job titles. Anselm Hannemann: CSS evolved and we’re beyond the point where everyone can just do it as a side interest. We all can learn it and build amazing stuff with it, … More Than “Slapping Paint on a Website” originally published on … | Continue reading
HTML lists are boring. They don’t do much, so we don’t really think about them despite how widely used they are. And we’re still able to do the same things we’ve always done to customize them, like removing markers, reversing … Newer Things to Know About Good Ol’ HTML Lists origi … | Continue reading
Well, color me this! I was griping to myself last night about just how gosh dang hard it is to read text messages in Apple Messages. You know, not the blue bubbles that you get when messaging other iPhone users. … Apple Messages & Color Contrast originally published on CSS-Tricks … | Continue reading
Well, hey check this out. Looks like there is a brand spankin’ new blog over at WordPress.org all about WordPress development. In the original proposal for the blog, Birgit Pauli-Haak writes: The Make Core blog has a heavy … WordPress Developer Blog originally published on CSS-T … | Continue reading
BEM. Like seemingly all techniques in the world of front-end development, writing CSS in a BEM format can be polarizing. But it is – at least in my Twitter bubble – one of the better-liked CSS methodologies. Personally, I think … Taming the Cascade With BEM and Modern CSS Selecto … | Continue reading
What I will be doing here is kind of an experiment to explore tricks that leverage a bug with the way CSS gradients handle sub-pixel rendering to create a static noise effect — like you might see on a TV with no signal. Making Static Noise From a Weird CSS Gradient Bug originally … | Continue reading
So far, we’ve covered how to work with data from an external API in a custom WordPress block. We walked through the process of fetching that data for use on the front end of a WordPress site, and how to … Creating a Settings UI for a Custom WordPress Block originally published on … | Continue reading
Hey folks! If you’ve been keeping up with the latest DigitalOcean news, you might be aware that we recently announced our acquisition of a company called Cloudways. In case you’re curious about what this means, we thought it might … DigitalOcean Welcomes Cloudways to the Family o … | Continue reading
I’m often asked where to learn web development. The answer varies, of course, and we’ve published a few posts on the topic over the years, the most recent of which was Chris taking a stab at different learning paths in … Finding Front-End Development Scholarships originally publi … | Continue reading
Is it Fall? Winter? I don’t know, but I woke up with snow in the front yard this morning and felt like it was time to write a little update about what’s been happening around CSS-Tricks this past month, as … Behind the CSScenes, November 2022 originally published on CSS-Tricks, w … | Continue reading
In this article we will be diving into the world of scrollbars. I know, it doesn’t sound too glamorous, but trust me, a well-designed page goes hand-in-hand with a matching scrollbar. The old-fashioned chrome scrollbar just doesn’t fit in as … Classy and Cool Custom CSS Scrollbar … | Continue reading
After Part 1 and Part 2, I am back with a third article to explore more fancy shapes. Like the previous articles, we are going to combine CSS Grid with clipping and masking to create fancy layouts for image … CSS Grid and Custom Shapes, Part 3 originally published on CSS-Tricks, … | Continue reading
Sacha Greif openly wondered whether CSS has gotten to be, you know, too big. With all the goodies that’ve shipped in browsers the past couple of years — container queries! relative color syntax! cascade layers! logical properties… What CSS Do You Absolutely Have to Know in 2022? … | Continue reading
The way we write CSS for WordPress themes is in the midst of sweeping changes. I recently shared a technique for adding fluid type support in WordPress by way of theme.json, a new file that WordPress has been pushing … Managing CSS Styles in a WordPress Block Theme originally pub … | Continue reading
“A change to overflow on replaced elements in CSS”: From Chrome 108, the following replaced elements respect the overflow property: img, video and canvas. In earlier versions of Chrome, this property was ignored on these elements. This … A Couple Changes Coming in Chrome 108 ori … | Continue reading
Web Sockets, Web Workers, Service Workers… these are terms you may have read or overheard. Maybe not all of them, but likely at least one of them. And even if you have a good handle on front-end development, there’s a … The Difference Between Web Sockets, Web Workers, and Service … | Continue reading
Every once in a while, the blogging zeitgiest seems to coalesce around a certain topic and it’s like the saved articles in my bookmarks folder are having a conversation. The conversation sitting in there now is all about CSS Gradients … Some Links About CSS Gradients originally p … | Continue reading
This is a continuation of my last article about “Rendering External API Data in WordPress Blocks on the Front End”. In that last one, we learned how to take an external API and integrate it with a block that … Rendering External API Data in WordPress Blocks on the Back End origin … | Continue reading
The Media Queries Level 4 specification has introduced a new syntax for targeting a range of viewport widths using common mathematical comparison operators, like , and =, that make more sense syntactically while writing less code for responsive web design. The New CSS Media Query … | Continue reading
We’ve spent the last two articles in this three-part series playing with gradients to make really neat image decorations using nothing but the element. In this third and final piece, we are going to explore more techniques using the … Fancy Image Decorations: Outlines and Comple … | Continue reading
Simon Goellner (@simeydotme)’s collection of Holographic Trading Cards have captured our attention. Under the hood there is a suite of filter(), background-blend-mode(), mix-blend-mode(), and clip-path() combinations that have been painstakingly tweaked to reach the desired effec … | Continue reading
The CSS :has() pseudo class is rolling out in many browsers with Chrome and Safari already fully supporting it. It’s often referred to it as “the parent selector” — as in, we can select style a parent element from a … Creating Animated, Clickable Cards With the :has() Relational … | Continue reading
As front-end developers, we’ve wished for a lot of things over the years — ways to center things in CSS, encapsulate styles, set an element’s aspect ratio, get finer-grained control over our colors, select an element based on its children’s … Is There Too Much CSS Now? originally … | Continue reading
Welcome to Part 2 of this three-part series! We are still decorating images without any extra elements and pseudo-elements. I hope you already took the time to digest Part 1 because we will continue working with a lot of gradients … Fancy Image Decorations: Masks and Advanced Hov … | Continue reading
I love it when there’s a sense of synergy in the blogosphere. First, I caught Nick Heer’s coverage of Meta ending support for Instant Articles, its proprietary format for stripped-down performant news articles. He also compares it to the similar … Instant Articles, Proprietary Sy … | Continue reading
Before I career jumped into development, I did a bunch of motion graphics work in After Effects. But even with that background, I still found animating on the web pretty baffling. Video graphics are designed within a specific ratio and … Responsive Animations for Every Screen Siz … | Continue reading
When you put something — say a regular sheet of paper — in a manilla folder, a part of that thing might peek out of the folder a little bit. The same sort of thing with a wallet and credit … How to Make a Folder “Slit” Effect With CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is … | Continue reading
By way of a post by Manuel Matuzović which is by way of a demo by Temani Afif. .wrapper { margin-inline: max(0px, ((100% - 64rem) / 2)); } You’d be doing yourself a favor to read Manuel’s breakdown of … Manuel Matuzovic: max() Trickery originally published on CSS-Tricks, which i … | Continue reading
Are you a Bezier curve lover like I am? CodePen Embed Fallback Besides being elegant, Bezier curves have nice mathematical properties due to their definition and construction. No wonder they are widely used in so many areas: As a … Pure CSS Bezier Curve Motion Paths originally p … | Continue reading
Well, hey, welcome back to Behind the CSScenes! These posts are like little check-ins we’re doing each month to give you a peek behind what we’re doing here at CSS-Tricks, as well as a chance for us to pause … Behind the CSScenes, October 2022 originally published on CSS-Tricks, … | Continue reading
As the title says, we are going to decorate images! There’s a bunch of other articles out there that talk about this, but what we’re covering here is quite a bit different because it’s more of a challenge. The challenge? … Fancy Image Decorations: Single Element Magic originally … | Continue reading
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
Oftentimes in the past, I needed to figure out how to add styles to all elements inside the container but not the hovered one. Demo of the expected “fade-out” effect on siblings to let users “focus” on a particular element.… A Pure CSS Gallery Focus Effect with :not originally pu … | 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
There’ve been some new tutorials popping here on CSS-Tricks for working with WordPress blocks. One of them is an introduction to WordPress block development and it’s a good place to learn what blocks are and to register them in WordPress … Rendering External API Data in WordPress … | 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
Spammers are a huge deal nowadays. If you want to share your contact information without getting overwhelmed by spam email you need a solution. I run into this problem a few months ago. While I was researching how to solve … How to Safely Share Your Email Address on a Website ori … | 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
The State of CSS survey recently opened up. Last year, the survey confirmed everyone’s assumptions that TailwindCSS is super popular and CSS variables are mainstream. It also codified what many of us want from CSS, from Container Queries to … State of CSS 2022 Survey Now Open ori … | 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
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