Past articles by CSS Tricks from May 2016

01:06 pm GMT - Fri, May 27, 2016

CSS Tricks inStyle (Modifying the Current Selector `&` in Sass)

The following is a guest post by Filip Naumovic. Filip has built a Sass tool to help with an issue I know I've experienced many times. You're happily nesting in Sass. You're maybe a level or two deep,...

01:06 pm GMT - Thu, May 26, 2016

CSS Tricks Sponsor: LightCMS

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01:02 pm GMT - Thu, May 26, 2016

CSS Tricks Considerations for styling the `pre` tag

I wrote about a bunch of design things you should think about if you use the <pre> tag in your content. Things like:Do you use the <code> tag inside?Choosing a font stackTo wrap or not...

03:27 pm GMT - Wed, May 25, 2016

CSS Tricks Sticky Footer, Five Ways

A brief history, if you will.The purpose of a sticky footer is that it "sticks" to the bottom of the browser window. But not always, if there is enough content on the page to push the footer lower, it...

01:45 pm GMT - Tue, May 24, 2016

CSS Tricks Injecting a Line Break

I had a little situation where I head a header with a span in it, and I wanted to make sure to put a line break before the span. For the record, there really isn't anything wrong with just chucking a ...

01:35 pm GMT - Mon, May 23, 2016

CSS Tricks CSS Modules and React

In this final post of our series on CSS Modules, Ill be taking a look at how to make a static React site with the thanks of Webpack. This static site will have two templates: a homepage and an about p...

12:21 pm GMT - Mon, May 23, 2016

CSS Tricks HEAD

Josh Buchea has collected "A list of everything that goes in the <head> of your document". Over 100 <meta> tags alone!Direct Link to Article — Permalink…HEAD is a post from...

12:55 pm GMT - Fri, May 20, 2016

CSS Tricks Modern Day Development Philosophies

You know it's true don't even lie.Modern Day Development Philosophies is a post from CSS-Tricks...

12:35 pm GMT - Fri, May 20, 2016

CSS Tricks (To use or not-to-use) Classes

Love me some blog debates! Papa Bear, Mama Bear, Baby Bear.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…(To use or not-to-use) Classes is a post from CSS-Tricks...

01:31 pm GMT - Thu, May 19, 2016

CSS Tricks Sponsor: Enterprise WordPress on Media Temple

Media Temple is the host we both use and recommend here on CSS-Tricks. Hot off the presses: Media Temple has launched Enterprise WordPress Hosting. This is for large-scale WordPress sites that need th...

01:29 pm GMT - Thu, May 19, 2016

CSS Tricks All or Nothing

Jonathan Snook takes a look at the all property which can be used like this: .element { all: initial;}The idea is that it should set all properties of an element to initial, removing all custom styli...

02:36 pm GMT - Wed, May 18, 2016

CSS Tricks ease-out, in; ease-in, out

We got to talking about easing in a recent episode of ShopTalk with Val Head and Sarah Drasner. Easing is important stuff when it comes to animations and transitions. Combined with the duration, it ha...

02:20 pm GMT - Wed, May 18, 2016

CSS Tricks Screamy Bird

During San Franciscos Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon, Glen Chiaccheri made a game where you have to literally scream your way through it.Make sure to check it out in Firefox, as...

02:08 pm GMT - Tue, May 17, 2016

CSS Tricks An Intro to Bedrock for WordPress

The following is a guest post by Alessandro Vendruscolo, who wrote to me excited to write a guest post about a WordPress tool that I didn't know much about: Bedrock. It's not a theme, it's a way to in...

01:51 pm GMT - Tue, May 17, 2016

CSS Tricks (To use or not-to-use) ARIA Tabs

Looks like a Papa Bear, Mama Bear, Baby Bear situation. Direct Link to Article — Permalink…(To use or not-to-use) ARIA Tabs is a post from CSS-Tricks...

01:51 pm GMT - Tue, May 17, 2016

CSS Tricks Reducing JPG File size

Theres lots of neat tricks for reducing the size of JPGs in this article by Colt McAnlis:With the Average webpage size now larger than the original DOOM game, you have to start asking where all the by...

01:01 pm GMT - Mon, May 16, 2016

CSS Tricks Tips for Aligning Icons to Text

Icons. They're popular. They help complement content (most of the time). And yet they can be a pain in the neck.Once you've decided on a format (SVG or icon font?) and designed the set, there are stil...

03:03 pm GMT - Fri, May 13, 2016

CSS Tricks An Intro to Google Tag Manager

The following is a guest post by David Attard. I only recently became aware that Google Tag Manager was a thing, but didn't know exactly what it was, what it did, or why I might care to use it. Thankf...

01:07 pm GMT - Thu, May 12, 2016

CSS Tricks Sponsor: Become an Industry-Ready Developer at Galvanize

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02:31 pm GMT - Wed, May 11, 2016

CSS Tricks Flexbox and Truncated Text

Situation: you have a single line of text in a flex child element. You don't want that text to wrap, you want it truncated with ellipsis (or fall back to just hiding the overflow). But the worst happe...

10:38 pm GMT - Tue, May 10, 2016

CSS Tricks Answers from AMA on Hashnode

I recently did an AMA on Hashnode and it was lots of fun! I enjoyed the questions and the simple format. I figured I'd plop some of my answers here in the spirit of blogging.Michele Bourdon: Are you a...

12:23 pm GMT - Tue, May 10, 2016

CSS Tricks Buttons in Design Systems

I really like this post by Nathan Curtis where he discusses how buttons can be applied to a design system:I love buttons. I can do things with buttons. Take a next step. Make a commitment. Get things ...

02:11 pm GMT - Mon, May 9, 2016

CSS Tricks Optimizing for Large-Scale Displays

The following is a guest post by Jon Yablonski. Jon told me he recently worked on a project where there was a lot of emphasis placed on giant screens. Jon is going to show us that just like RWD work o...

01:56 pm GMT - Fri, May 6, 2016

CSS Tricks CSS from the Future

Zeke Sikelianos:So. We have variables in CSS now. That's pretty neat, but it doesn't get us all the way to CSS heaven. What we really need is a way to write little bits of reusable CSS. These features...

01:46 pm GMT - Fri, May 6, 2016

CSS Tricks Updating Our Prefixing Policy

WebKit will no longer release experimental features with prefixes (i.e. -webkit-font-smoothing) as many have found that this can actually quite harmful:Over time this strategy has turned out not to wo...

05:42 pm GMT - Thu, May 5, 2016

CSS Tricks The Advice For Going Freelance Is Very Consistent

I caught wind of a friend making the transition from in-house designer to freelancer or proprietor of a small design studio and looking for advice. I've never truly done the freelance thing, so I outs...

05:16 pm GMT - Thu, May 5, 2016

CSS Tricks Web Fonts for President 2016

Zach Leatherman digs under the cover of the presidential candidates websites and reveals that font loading is a nuanced and complicated business:Using a web font service doesnt necessarily mean that y...

07:03 pm GMT - Wed, May 4, 2016

CSS Tricks Options for Building Web Forms

There are plenty of form building services, plugins, and frameworks in the wild that make the tedious task of form design and development much easier. We're going to look at some of those in this post...

02:19 pm GMT - Tue, May 3, 2016

CSS Tricks So you want to make a PostCSS plugin

The following is a guest post by Marcus Tister. I think there are a lot of us out there that find PostCSS kind of fascinating. Especially from the perspective of potentially being able to write our ow...

02:59 pm GMT - Mon, May 2, 2016

CSS Tricks A Comparison of Animation Technologies

The question I am asked most frequently: what animation tool do you recommend?Having worked with a slew of them, I can tell you there is no right answer. It's a complicated question and complicated an...

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