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05:17 pm GMT - Thu, June 19, 2014
CSS Tricks Prefilling Forms with a Custom Bookmarklet
The following is a guest post by Adam Lichtenstein. Adam works at Wufoo, a web app for building web forms, so you can imagine the need for testing forms is at least double what the rest of us need. Ad...
01:18 am GMT - Wed, June 18, 2014
CSS Tricks Use Cases and Requirements for Element Queries
This is a perfect example of making a case for new language features. Not just a vague "element queries! that would be awesome!" but laying out a real-world scenario, what we have to do to achieve it ...
01:57 am GMT - Tue, June 17, 2014
CSS Tricks Async Attribute and Scripts At The Bottom
A reader recently wrote in and (essentially) asked me:Is there any reason to use the async attribute when the script is already at the bottom of the page?I'm not a master at this stuff, but this is ho...
07:24 pm GMT - Thu, June 12, 2014
CSS Tricks About That Small Business Website Of Yours
Here's a (lightly edited) real email exchange I just had with someone in my family. I thought it would be worth sharing.Hi Chris,I understand that you have been talking with [another family member] ab...
09:03 pm GMT - Wed, June 11, 2014
CSS Tricks Cascading SVG Fill Color
One time someone told me their biggest problem with SVG icons is that they didn't match the color of text they were by. In fact it was such a big problem for them, that despite seeing the advantages o...
07:24 pm GMT - Wed, June 11, 2014
CSS Tricks Everything You Need to Know About the CSS will-change Property
Sara Soueidan lets us know translateZ(0); is out and will-change: transform; (et al) is in. The general tips being: use sparingly, apply before you need it, be honest about what really needs it.There ...
06:43 pm GMT - Wed, June 11, 2014
CSS Tricks Sharing Data Between Sass and JavaScript with JSON
Imagine you have a set of breakpoints you have defined for your design that adjust the layout. Now you need to mimic those breakpoints in JavaScript, because you are choosing to load some dynamic cont...
06:03 pm GMT - Tue, June 10, 2014
CSS Tricks New Poll: Typing Skills
Reader Hendrik Maus wrote in asking me about how I value typing skills and suggested running a poll on it. Good idea, Hendrik! I love polls that unearth some interesting data around developer opinions...
04:42 pm GMT - Mon, June 9, 2014
CSS Tricks Poll Results: Sharing Buttons
A poll has been running here regarding sharing buttons. We asked it this way:This best describes how I share links on my social media site(s) of choice:12.5 thousand CSS-Tricks visitors voted. The re...
06:57 pm GMT - Thu, June 5, 2014
CSS Tricks Prefill Your Own Forms in Dev
There is a good chance there is a bunch of forms on the websites you work on. Login and signup forms, payment forms, contact forms, comment forms, etc. It's a good idea to test these forms. Certainly ...
05:22 pm GMT - Wed, June 4, 2014
CSS Tricks Inverse trigonometric functions with Sass
I link this up not because I think we all need to know trigonometry in our day to day CSS worker lives, but because: holy crap Ana Tudor does amazing stuff with Math and Sass which results in some cap...
05:15 pm GMT - Wed, June 4, 2014
CSS Tricks Universal overflow: auto;
Greg Smith isn't advocating we start just slapping on * { overflow: auto; } into all our existing projects. But if we start a project with this, there are a number of advantages, like not needing to u...
10:22 pm GMT - Tue, June 3, 2014
CSS Tricks SVG `symbol` a Good Choice for Icons
You could design an icon set where the icons all had the exact same aspect ratio. But that's probably not typically going to be the case. The container around a little beaker icon might be tall and na...
07:52 pm GMT - Mon, June 2, 2014
CSS Tricks Using Encapsulation for Semantic Markup
The following is a guest article by Chris Scott. Chris takes us through a great use case for the Shadow DOM. As designers, we may want to style something in a certain way, but sometimes end up having ...