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08:11 pm GMT - Fri, March 28, 2014
CSS Tricks Spring-cleaning Unused CSS
Addy Osmani intros a Grunt task for removing unused CSS from your stylesheet before serving it. While this is certainly a worthy goal, I look at the quotes from people who reducing their stylesheets b...
01:03 am GMT - Fri, March 28, 2014
CSS Tricks Rotated Table Column Headers
Say you have a table header (i.e. <th>) of "Number of Howler Monkey Species by Country" and the data in the corresponding <td> is like "3". That's an awkward mismatch of width.AwkwardP...
02:48 am GMT - Thu, March 27, 2014
CSS Tricks Hatin on Web Tech
This article "Shadow DOM" by Steven Wittens is only vaguely about the Shadow DOM. It's mostly about how awful everything is. HTML sucks, CSS sucks, the DOM sucks, SVG sucks, MathML sucks... I don't wa...
06:38 pm GMT - Wed, March 26, 2014
CSS Tricks CDNify Podcast
I joined Jamie Ashbrook and Ben Briggs to talk about SVG and tooling and whatnot. Direct Link to Article — Permalink…CDNify Podcast is a post from CSS-Tricks...
06:53 pm GMT - Mon, March 24, 2014
CSS Tricks SVG & WordPress Custom Fields
The following is a guest post by Ian Marquette. Ian learned that SVG can have a <text> element, meaning that text could come from a dynamic source while still being able to do cool custom SVG-...
07:59 pm GMT - Fri, March 21, 2014
CSS Tricks The Web Ahead
I chatted with Jen Simmons about flexbox and the general future of the web.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…The Web Ahead is a post from CSS-Tricks...
07:57 pm GMT - Fri, March 21, 2014
CSS Tricks New Poll: Sharing Buttons
Throughout the life of this site, I've flipflopped (nope, yep) on whether or not I show social sharing buttons on articles. As anything, there are arguments in either direction. We can cover that brie...
10:56 pm GMT - Thu, March 20, 2014
CSS Tricks Crafting link underlines on Medium
Quite the in-depth exploration of underlined text on the web by Marcin Wichary.In the end, linear-gradient won the day with the most control, best look, and best performance. Some people have been pla...
10:47 pm GMT - Thu, March 20, 2014
CSS Tricks Poll Results: Command Line Usage
About 22,000 CSS-Tricks visitors voted in the last poll about command line usage, which asked:On average, how many commands do you run from the command line each work day?The result: there is a lot of...
01:19 am GMT - Wed, March 19, 2014
CSS Tricks Design v11
I redesigned this site a smidge. It's not a huge re-thinking or as big of an undertaking as v10 was, but it's different enough I'm going to call it v11.Some of it looks like this:LessGone is the Downl...
06:08 pm GMT - Tue, March 18, 2014
CSS Tricks My Advice to Young Designers and Developers
Andy Budd:Should they continue their studies or jump straight into the labour market? I usually tell them that ability trumps education and I dont put much faith on the current raft of tech degrees. S...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, March 17, 2014
CSS Tricks On CodeKit 2.0
The following is a guest post by Bryan Jones, the creator of CodeKit. I've been using CodeKit for a couple of years now and I've talked about it plenty. In my opinion it changed the game in front end ...
06:16 pm GMT - Mon, March 17, 2014
CSS Tricks Fluidity
It's a fun little soundbite to talk about how the web is responsive right out of the box. With no authored CSS at all, a website will flow to whatever screen width is available. If your site isn't res...
07:16 pm GMT - Wed, March 12, 2014
CSS Tricks Icon System with SVG Sprites
I've been a big proponent of icon fonts. Lots of sites really need a system for icons, and icon fonts offer a damn fine system. However, I think assuming you're good with IE 9+, using inline SVG and t...
01:11 am GMT - Wed, March 12, 2014
CSS Tricks Popping Out of Hidden Overflow
The following is a guest post by Agop Shirinian. Agop ran into an interesting scenario where he needed an element to be scrollable in one direction, while allowing the overflow in the other direction....
11:52 pm GMT - Mon, March 10, 2014
CSS Tricks Filling the Space in the Last Row with Flexbox
Chris Albrecht posted a question on StackOverflow about grids. Essentially: image you have an element with an unknown number of children. Each of those children is some percentage of the width of pare...
02:00 am GMT - Wed, March 5, 2014
CSS Tricks Thoughts on Media Queries for Elements
Imagine something like these Transformer Tabs as a widget in a fluid column in a responsive design. Depending on the browser window width, perhaps this design is either 4, 2, or 1 column wide. When it...
01:45 am GMT - Wed, March 5, 2014
CSS Tricks Flexbox Bar Navigation Demo
Someone wrote in to me asking how to create a simple bar navigation with icons. This is a pretty simple layout thing that could be accomplished loads of different ways. List items as inline-block prob...
06:22 am GMT - Tue, March 4, 2014
CSS Tricks css perf
Mark Otto "derping around with measuring CSS performance". Nothing looks particularly concerning to me, to the point where I would change how I do things. The most surprising numbers were in backgroun...
06:10 am GMT - Tue, March 4, 2014
CSS Tricks srcset in Chrome
It's worth noting that the srcset attribute for the img element has landed in Chrome (still one version upstream from stable at this second). Their example: <img alt="A rad wolf." src="pic1x.jpg" ...
12:00 pm GMT - Mon, March 3, 2014
CSS Tricks CSSGradients
This article was originally published on March 2, 2010. It was updated April 1, 2011, July 20, 2011, and again March 3, 2014, each time to clarify and correct browser prefixes and best practices.Just ...
03:23 am GMT - Sat, March 1, 2014
CSS Tricks Basics of CSS Blend Modes
Bennett Feely has been doing a good job of showing people the glory of CSS blend modes. There are lots of designerly effects that we're used to seeing in static designs (thanks to Photoshop) that we d...