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03:58 pm GMT - Fri, February 26, 2016
CSS Tricks An Interview with Una Kravets
I had the pleasure of talking to Una Karvets one Sunny Sunday, and was super excited to do so because I'm a huge fan of her work. If you're not that familiar with what she does, here are some pretty c...
01:16 pm GMT - Thu, February 25, 2016
CSS Tricks Should you have defaults styles for `table`?
Luke Underwood wrote in with an interesting question:What are the best practices for default <table> styling?I guess there are three possibilities:Have default stylesDon'tSomewhere in betweenL...
03:35 pm GMT - Wed, February 24, 2016
CSS Tricks The New Newsletter
We've long had a way to subscribe to CSS-Tricks via email. You probably couldn't really call it a "newsletter" though, as it just consumed the RSS feed and sent out newly published articles each week....
02:50 pm GMT - Tue, February 23, 2016
CSS Tricks The Current State of Telephone Links
Telephone links are a thing. Like an anchor link you tap to (probably) go to another page, these are links you tap to call a number on a phone-capable device. Theyve been around for quite some time. Y...
01:16 pm GMT - Tue, February 23, 2016
CSS Tricks Draft.js
Facebook (looks like mostly Isaac Salier-Hellendag) released what looks like a pretty sweet rich text editor written in React. In the same vein:TinyMCE is the one that's been around forever.ProseMirro...
12:59 pm GMT - Tue, February 23, 2016
CSS Tricks Peak Style Guide
Brad Frost, responding to last week's Newsletter where I mentioned that a style guide doesn't need to be a big fancy display for the world to see.But I dont think these style guide logos and mascots C...
09:30 pm GMT - Mon, February 22, 2016
CSS Tricks Managing Typography on Large Apps
Harry Roberts suggest very minimal styles for h1-h6, then using heading-specific class names to actually style them, regardless of what element they turn out to be.I could get behind that. In the past...
09:23 pm GMT - Mon, February 22, 2016
CSS Tricks The New Web Typography
An essay by our own Robin Rendle. A story of typographers gone by, the ideas they left behind, and what it all means in today's vastly different contexts.I dont have as much empathy for screens as muc...
11:44 am GMT - Mon, February 22, 2016
CSS Tricks Squigglevision
It's a term for animation where the lines appear to squirm around, even when the object/scene is at rest. Apparently, it's even patented. It's part of the iconic look of shows like Dr. Katz:And Home M...
07:37 pm GMT - Sun, February 21, 2016
CSS Tricks CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXVI
Hey campers! I like doing these little updates once in awhile to shine a light on the goings-on of CSS-Tricks, related sites, and myself. So. Many. New CodePen features. 2015 was a pretty good year!Ta...
03:56 pm GMT - Fri, February 19, 2016
CSS Tricks Building Concentric Circles with Nice Color Palettes For Fun and Science
By replicating a little design I found, I learned a lot of different things: Jade loops, exploded attributes, nested SVG circles, color libraries and APIs, and more.Direct Link to Article — Perm...
01:21 pm GMT - Fri, February 19, 2016
CSS Tricks A Quick Overview of `object-fit` and `object-position`
object-fit and object-position are my two favourite CSS properties lately. They give developers control over the content inside an img or a video similar to the way that we can manipulate the content ...
02:23 pm GMT - Thu, February 18, 2016
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02:42 pm GMT - Wed, February 17, 2016
CSS Tricks Making a Simple Image Resizing/Optimizing Service in Automator
As I was using Photoshop to resize my eleven billionth image, it occurred to me I should probably simplify this process. AppleScript, perhaps? Photoshop scripts? Some already existing little app? A li...
02:03 pm GMT - Wed, February 17, 2016
CSS Tricks Using calc() to fake a media query
A bonafide CSS trick by Rmi Parmentier. It's used in the context of emails here, but it's a clever trick in it's own right. This is the trick:/* When parent is 500px wide... */.block { min-width: 50%...
02:37 pm GMT - Tue, February 16, 2016
CSS Tricks I Heart CSS
I like to think of CSS as a love language. If written well, it can be as lovely as poetry. There are rules, semantics and, like love itself, it can be communicated in many ways. Consider the variety o...
03:28 pm GMT - Mon, February 15, 2016
CSS Tricks An Interview with Andy Fitzsimon about logomono
I got an email from Andy Fitzsimon the other day about some projects he's working on. One of which was logomono, something I thought looked pretty interesting and shared the other day. I thought, rath...
07:30 pm GMT - Sun, February 14, 2016
CSS Tricks Introducing Vector Networks
The team working on the upcoming design tool Figma demonstrate how vector path making will work. Think of the Pen Tool in Adobe software, rethought. This new approach certainly looks more intuitive, e...
04:12 pm GMT - Fri, February 12, 2016
CSS Tricks Why npm Scripts?
The following is a guest post by Damon Bauer. There has been a growing sentiment (for instance) that using node packages directly, with the command line interfaces they provide, is a good route to tak...
01:48 pm GMT - Thu, February 11, 2016
CSS Tricks Building a Jekyll Site Part 3 of 3: Creating a Firebase-Backed Commenting System
The following is a guest post by Mike Neumegen from CloudCannon. This final post is about adding some functionality to a Jekyll site that isn't possible: comments. That's because Jekyll has no backend...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, February 10, 2016
CSS Tricks Building a Jekyll Site Part 2 of 3: Adding a Jekyll CMS with CloudCannon
The following is a sponsored guest post by Mike Neumegen from CloudCannon. This series is all about not only building a Jekyll site but then adding simple editability through CloudCannon.In this serie...
02:07 pm GMT - Tue, February 9, 2016
CSS Tricks Building a Jekyll Site Part 1 of 3: Converting a Static Website To Jekyll
The following is a guest post by Mike Neumegen from CloudCannon. Mike and I talked about doing a little series on building Jekyll sites, which of course I was into because Jekyll is great and more edu...
02:26 pm GMT - Mon, February 8, 2016
CSS Tricks I Learned How to be Productive in React in a Week and You Can, Too
This article is not intended for seasoned React pros, but rather, those of us who make websites for a living and are curious how React can help us reason about updating user interfaces. Ive been intri...
10:00 am GMT - Fri, February 5, 2016
CSS Tricks The `background-clip` Property and its Use Cases
background-clip is one of those properties I've known about for years, but rarely used. Maybe just a couple of times as part of a solution to a Stack Overflow question. Until last year, when I started...
01:48 pm GMT - Thu, February 4, 2016
CSS Tricks Sponsor: OReilly Fluent Conference
This year, the O'Reilly Fluent Conference (March 7-10 in San Francisco) brings you new 2-day, in-depth training courses in topics like React, CSS Layouts, Website Planning and Design. You'll also find...
02:46 pm GMT - Wed, February 3, 2016
CSS Tricks Building & Maintaining OUI (Optimizelys UI Library): Part 2/2
The following is a guest post by Daniel O'Connor. Daniel shares more about OUI, the UI library by Optimizely Tom Genoni introduced in Part 1.Over a year ago we set out on a mission at Optimizely to un...
01:52 pm GMT - Wed, February 3, 2016
CSS Tricks CSS-Tricks is a Poster Child WordPress Site
I like other CMS's. I promise. But WordPress is super perfect for all the things I need and want to do around here on CSS-Tricks.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…CSS-Tricks is a Poster C...
02:34 pm GMT - Tue, February 2, 2016
CSS Tricks Building & Maintaining OUI (Optimizelys UI Library): Part 1/2
The following is a guest post by Tom Genoni. Tom is going to introduce us to the thinking and process behind Optimizely's new UI library / Sass framework. Part 2, tomorrow, will be by Daniel O'Conner ...
02:01 pm GMT - Tue, February 2, 2016
CSS Tricks Clarity (A Style Guide Conference)
Jina Bolton is throwing this brand spankin' new conference in San Francisco at the end of March, and I'll be MCing!10% off with coupon code "CodePen"Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Clar...
10:00 pm GMT - Mon, February 1, 2016
CSS Tricks Hey, Look What Day It Is
One of my favorite self-declared holidays.Interesting tidbit. It was considered a mistake by the CSS Working Group:Box-sizing should be border-box by default.Direct Link to Article — Permalink&#...
03:27 pm GMT - Mon, February 1, 2016
CSS Tricks Choosing the Right Markdown Parser
The following is a guest post by Ray Villalobos. Ray is going to explore many of the different varietals of Markdown. All of them offer features beyond what the original Markdown can do, but they offe...