Articles by CSS Tricks from November 2015

Rebecca Murphey:This is everything-you-thought-you-knew-is-wrong kind of stuff. In an HTTP/2 world, there are few benefits to concatenating a bunch of JS files together, and in many cases the practice...

Jeremy Keith looks at the competing standards for the metadata that goes in the head which ultimately helps services such as Slack, Twitter and Facebook to create a preview of the content of a website...

The following is a guest post by Osvaldas Valutis. Osvaldas is going to show us not only how drag and drop file uploading works, but goes over what nice UI and UX for it can be, browser support, and h...

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Redesigning a site with responsive design? The tech stuff can be challenging, but easy compared to the decision-making, process-defining, and organization-wrangling before you even get there. Karen Mc...

Nick Sherman gave a fascinating talk at Ampersand earlier this month which was based on an article he wrote called Variable Fonts for Responsive Design. In both the talk and the essay he suggests that...

The web is a fluid place. Different sized screens, yadda yadda yadda. Fortunately for us, the web is ready for it. Text wraps. CSS gives us control over how to size things. What we don't get (easily, ...

WPO, as in, "Web Performance Optimizations", I believe. Case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of performance optimization on user experience and business metrics.Real companies, real p...

Neat trick by Tobias Ahlin:How do you animate the box-shadow property in CSS without causing re-paints on every frame, and heavily impacting the performance of your page? Short answer: you dont. Anima...

Pretty bold step for WordPress. Totally new UI. Totally new technologies. No more PHP and MySQL, it's Node.js, React, Flux, Babel, Webpack... the fanciest of fancy modern tooling. Still completely ope...

The following is a guest post by Eduardo Bouas. Eduardo is back to follow up on his journey of approaching media queries programatically. He'll catch you up on how this started, where it's went, and h...

The following article is by James Nowland, a front end developer for Headjam, a creative agency in Newcastle, Australia. James has created a fairly simple little effect here, but one that you might th...

A classic blog-and-forth, my favorite form of internet discussion.Paul Lewis does some research on the performance of differnet frameworks, pitting each of their TodoMVC versions against one another:F...

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Ian McBurnie:A user interface control not only needs to look like a certain control, it must be described as that control too.What if we could also write our CSS framework in a way that acts as anothe...

I'd love to gather some anonymous aggregate information about all y'all who read CSS-Tricks. In part, to help guide upcoming content. Also just because it's fun and it will be interesting data for us ...

The following is a guest post by Jon Bellah, an Engineering Manager at 10up. Jon reached out to us about writing on the idea of visual regression testing, which is a form of CSS testing (i.e. making s...

Several years ago the consensus on font loading in the community was that, as a website loads, all fonts should be hidden until the correct resources have been downloaded. Many designers and developer...

The following is a guest post by Petr Tichy. Petr writes a lot about animation, interaction, and SVG, so I'm excited to have him here to share some of that expertise with such a fun demo. It's an anim...

All the dates for An Event Apart in 2016 are out! Not only can you start planning which ones you will attend, but you can buy tickets already at the "Early Pricing", which saves money and means you ca...

This is a question that comes up more regularly than you might expect. We see it pop up in the CSS-Tricks forums from time-to-time. It's also a common question I'm asked when teaching introductory web...

When Nicolas Bevacqua (of Pony Foo) started talking about a potential guest post, I knew right away we should do something with offline. Nicolas has been writing a lot about the ServiceWorker API and ...

I found some old Highlights magazines and these Goofus and Gallant characters sure had some prescient wisdom to share.https://css-tricks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/goofus-31.jpg…CSS Wisdom f...

When Chris first started the CSS-Tricks redesign, he came to me with some screenshots of the direction it was headed in, and suggested that I make an animation for the logo as part of the design refre...

Creating the best user experience for your mobile apps is critical to their success. But time constraints and limited resources sometimes force you to compromise. It shouldnt have to be a tradeoff. Te...

Originally published in February 2014, now updated/corrected/expanded.So you've installed WordPress and want to blog about code. Yay! You're a hero and I thank on behalf of myself an coders everywhere...

Ever wonder what's running under the hood here at CSS-Tricks? Well, it's been a while since we last shared the WordPress plugins used here on the site, and even longer since the time before that. We f...

Philip Walton:While its not possible to simply instruct the browser to ignore specificity altogether, it is possible to prevent specificity from affecting the cascade for a particular CSS file or set ...

CSS image replacement is a technique of replacing a text element (usually a header tag like an <h1>) with an image (often a logo). It has its origins in the time before web fonts and SVG. For ...

The Network tab in Chrome DevTools has an option to faux throttle your network, so you can experience what your users might experience visiting your website on 3G, 2G and GPRS connections. Besides the...

Did you know that you can animate the content property of pseudo elements? According the list of animatable properties in the spec, you shouldn't be able to, but in the latest version of desktop Chrom...

Joe Richardson shared this little trick over on CodePen:body { /* operating system font */ font: caption;}If you're on Ubuntu this will be the Ubuntu Font.If you're on Yosemite this will be Helve...