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11:36 am GMT - Thu, June 29, 2017
CSS Tricks Tech Communitys Very Own Domain Extension
Until 2012, the world only knew of .com, .net etc. Since then, 1200+ new domain extensions have been launched! Today, there are meaningful extensions for all kinds of communities including us, the tec...
11:27 am GMT - Thu, June 29, 2017
CSS Tricks Form Validation Part 4: Validating the MailChimp Subscribe Form
Over the last few articles in this series, we've learned how to use a handful of input types and validation attributes to natively validate forms.We've learned how to use the Constraint Validation API...
04:27 pm GMT - Wed, June 28, 2017
CSS Tricks Move Modal in on a Path
Have you seen those fancy interactions where a modal window flys down from the top of the page? Maybe it slides in from the side while it fades up to full opacity? Maybe it falls in from above and goe...
12:41 pm GMT - Wed, June 28, 2017
CSS Tricks Form Validation Part 3: A Validity State API Polyfill
In the last article in this series, we built a lightweight script (6kb, 2.7kb minified) using the Validity State API to enhance the native form validation experience. It works in all modern browsers a...
12:11 pm GMT - Tue, June 27, 2017
CSS Tricks Form Validation Part 2: The Constraint Validation API (JavaScript)
In my last article, I showed you how to use native browser form validation through a combination of semantic input types (for example, <input type="email">) and validation attributes (such as ...
11:21 am GMT - Mon, June 26, 2017
CSS Tricks Form Validation Part 1: Constraint Validation in HTML
Most JavaScript form validation libraries are large, and often require other libraries like jQuery. For example, MailChimp's embeddable form includes a 140kb validation file (minified). It includes th...
02:11 pm GMT - Sun, June 25, 2017
CSS Tricks Stickybits: an alternative to `position: sticky` polyfills
Stickybits is a small JavaScript utility plugin. It's goal is not to get in the way. It does one thing well: help with sticky elements. It is not dependent on other JavaScript Plugins, can be imported...
07:01 pm GMT - Fri, June 23, 2017
CSS Tricks A Pretty Good SVG Icon System
I've long advocated SVG icon systems. Still do. To name a few benefits: vector-based icons look great in a high pixel density world, SVG offers lots of design control, and they are predictable and per...
01:54 pm GMT - Thu, June 22, 2017
CSS Tricks Creating a Design System Process with UXPin
There's never a better time to work in software. Developers and designers are among the most desired people on the market. Companies all over the world seem to have a never-ending thirst for software ...
11:15 am GMT - Thu, June 22, 2017
CSS Tricks Server-Side React Rendering
React is best known as a client-side JavaScript framework, but did you know you can (and perhaps should!) render React sever-side?Suppose you've built a zippy new event listing React app for a client....
10:09 am GMT - Wed, June 21, 2017
CSS Tricks Reactive UIs with VanillaJS Part 2: Class Based Components
In Part 1, I went over various functional-style techniques for cleanly rendering HTML given some JavaScript data. We broke our UI up into component functions, each of which returned a chunk of markup ...
10:07 am GMT - Wed, June 21, 2017
CSS Tricks Naming Things is Only Getting Harder
I was working with CSS Grid and came to the grid-column and grid-row properties. I paused for a moment.They're not overly complicated. They are shorthand properties for expressing where an element sho...
07:39 am GMT - Tue, June 20, 2017
CSS Tricks What Does a Well-Documented CSS Codebase Look Like?
In the front-end community, there is a lot of attention related to documenting JavaScript. That's not so much the case with CSS. Often times I feel like lost when I join a project with minimal or no C...
07:38 am GMT - Tue, June 20, 2017
CSS Tricks Connect: behind the front-end experience
Some fantastic behind-the-scenes stuff about Stripe's design work by Benjamin De Cock. Absolutely everything is clever and using very modern techniques.Using CSS grid for their iconic background strip...
08:35 am GMT - Mon, June 19, 2017
CSS Tricks Oh No! Our Stylesheet Only Grows and Grows and Grows! (The Append-Only Stylesheet Problem)
This is a real worry these days. I've heard it from lots of lots of developers. The years tick by on their projects, and all they ever seem to do is add to their CSS, never remove. It's not just a fee...
10:18 am GMT - Sun, June 18, 2017
CSS Tricks The $1,000 Podcasting Setup
I figure between (as I write) the 267 episodes of ShopTalk, 134 episodes of CodePen Radio, 154 video screencasts (and many hundreds more as part of the different series), and all my guest podcast appe...
07:20 am GMT - Fri, June 16, 2017
CSS Tricks Handling Long and Unexpected Content in CSS
When we write CSS, sometimes we forget about some edge cases in the designs. For example, when the content is longer than we expected and we didn't account for that possibility, our design could break...
07:18 am GMT - Fri, June 16, 2017
CSS Tricks How the minmax() Function Works
Another swell post by Ire Aderinokun, this time on the curious minmax() CSS function and how it works alongside the CSS Grid features that we've been experimenting with lately.What's especially great ...
07:05 am GMT - Thu, June 15, 2017
CSS Tricks Free Guide to Using cPanel & WordPress
Managed WordPress hosting is a great choice if you need a hosting solution that's optimized for WordPress. But it's only for WordPress.What if you need more?What if you need email hosting? What if you...
06:48 am GMT - Thu, June 15, 2017
CSS Tricks Using Mixins in Vue.js
It's a common situation: you have two components that are pretty similar, they share the same basic functionality, but there's enough that's different about each of them that you come to a crossroads:...
10:36 am GMT - Wed, June 14, 2017
CSS Tricks Introduction to Webpack: Entry, Output, Loaders, and Plugins
Front-end development has shifted to a modular approach, improving the encapsulation and structure of codebases. Tooling became a critical part of any project, and right now there are a lot of possibl...
11:57 am GMT - Tue, June 13, 2017
CSS Tricks CSS Animations vs Web Animations API
There is a native API for animation in JavaScript known as the Web Animations API. We'll call it WAAPI in this post. MDN has good documentation on it, and Dan Wilson has a great article series. In thi...
12:23 pm GMT - Mon, June 12, 2017
CSS Tricks An Introduction to the `fr` CSS unit
With all the excitement around CSS Grid, I haven't seen as much talk about the new fr CSS length unit (here's the spec). And now that browser support is rapidly improving for this feature, I think thi...
07:15 pm GMT - Sun, June 11, 2017
CSS Tricks A Little Example of Data Massaging
I'm not sure if "data massaging" is a real thing, but that's how I think of what I'm about to describe. Dave and I were thinking about a bit of a redesign for ShopTalk Show. Fresh coat of paint kinda ...
04:52 pm GMT - Sat, June 10, 2017
CSS Tricks CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXXI
All the latest happenings! As I like to do, I round up a bunch of things that have happened in the past few months around here on this site, over at CodePen and ShopTalk, and other sites where I got t...
12:11 pm GMT - Fri, June 9, 2017
CSS Tricks The Equilateral Triangle of a Perfect Paragraph
Still, too many web designers neglect the importance of typography on the web. So far, I've only met a few that really understand typography and know how to apply that knowledge to their work. And the...
12:10 pm GMT - Fri, June 9, 2017
CSS Tricks An intro to web components with otters
Monica Dinculescu on web components and why we might care:... before web components came around, you had to wait on all browsers to agree on a new element (like, a date picker). And even after they ag...
11:58 am GMT - Fri, June 9, 2017
CSS Tricks World Wide Web, Not Wealthy Western Web
Bruce Lawson explores many of the misconceptions that web designers might have when building websites. The crux of his argument is that we should be focusing on designing for users that are just getti...
04:11 pm GMT - Thu, June 8, 2017
CSS Tricks Building a Directory with the Twitter API
Last month, designer Helen Tran asked people to name to name five women designers that they thought were valuable to the industry: I need you to help me out. Name five female Designers you think are r...
04:08 pm GMT - Thu, June 8, 2017
CSS Tricks How to improve your sites UX
Let's face it, it's tough to be a web designer today. You have to stand up in front of the class and let people pick apart the thing you spent 10 hours on the night before.But what if you can really s...
03:47 pm GMT - Thu, June 8, 2017
CSS Tricks Aspect Ratio Boxes
I had a little situation the other I needed to make one of those aspect-ratio friendly boxes. This isn't particularly new stuff. I think the original credit goes as far back as 2009 and Thierry Koblen...
01:20 pm GMT - Wed, June 7, 2017
CSS Tricks Masking vs. Clipping: When to Use Each
I was recently doing some client work where I used both <clipPath>s and <mask>s in SVG to hide and show content for animation. When I started this project, I thought I knew all of the ...
01:10 pm GMT - Wed, June 7, 2017
CSS Tricks Oh wait, I was looking at production
Oh so true:Why won't this CSS change?!Restart server>Noperm -rf everything>Noperebuild dev env>NopeOh wait, I was looking at production— Mike Coutermarsh (@mscccc) June 5, 2017No...
12:30 pm GMT - Tue, June 6, 2017
CSS Tricks Creating Yin and Yang Loaders On the Web
I came across a couple such animations a while ago and this gave me the idea of creating my own versions with as little code as possible, no external libraries, using various methods, some of which ta...
12:26 pm GMT - Tue, June 6, 2017
CSS Tricks Breaking Out with CSS Grid Explained
Tyler Sticka shared a slick technique for breaking out content in a CSS Grid layout, but Rachel Andrew goes the extra mile to explain why the technique works:When you name lines, you can optionally na...
12:50 pm GMT - Mon, June 5, 2017
CSS Tricks Fun with Viewport Units
Viewport units have been around for several years now, with near-perfect support in the major browsers, but I keep finding new and exciting ways to use them. I thought it would be fun to review the ba...
11:06 am GMT - Sat, June 3, 2017
CSS Tricks Using Filters in Vue.js
Filters are an interesting way to deal with data rendering in Vue but are only useful in a small amount of cases. The first thing to understand about filters is that they aren't replacements for metho...
01:16 pm GMT - Fri, June 2, 2017
CSS Tricks Intro to Firebase and React
Let's take a look at building something using Firebase and React. We'll be building something called Fun Food Friends, a web application for planning your next potluck, which hopefully feels like some...
01:10 pm GMT - Fri, June 2, 2017
CSS Tricks Componentizing a Framework
I'm sure most of you understand how you work with a framework like Bootstrap, Foundation, or Materialize. You use their CSS and JavaScript. You also use their chunks of HTML, piecing together and appl...
11:57 am GMT - Thu, June 1, 2017
CSS Tricks HelloSign: The Industrys Fastest eSignature API Integration
My favorite kind of software products are the ones that very clearly make life simpler. Being able to legally sign a document by clicking a button in an email and squiggling my mouse to make my signat...
11:53 am GMT - Thu, June 1, 2017
CSS Tricks Deletability
Kelly Sutton has written a post called Deletability and I've been thinking about it all day and how his ideas relate to writing CSS:By working with code, we see that modularity and deletability are cl...
11:43 am GMT - Thu, June 1, 2017
CSS Tricks Build a Style Guide Straight from Sass
Last fall, our dev team wanted to get started with style guides. We had added a new member to the team, and as he was getting up to speed, we realized how lacking our project documentation was. If you...
01:14 pm GMT - Wed, May 31, 2017
CSS Tricks Animating Single Div Art
One thing that single div pieces rarely do is animate. If you can transform your div or one of its pseudo elements, that's fair (as Lynn Fisher does with her fantastic BB-8). But you cannot directly ...
01:03 pm GMT - Wed, May 31, 2017
CSS Tricks How Can I Make My Icon System Accessible?
Here's a question I got the other day?Would you suggest icon fonts or inline SVGs for a complex single page application? And are there specific accessibility concerns for either? Accessibility is espe...
11:49 am GMT - Wed, May 31, 2017
CSS Tricks Floating Labels are Problematic
I feel like all these issues are handleable, but the damning issue is #3: they need space to move into. Labels can't go away and need to be readable at all times, so a floating label pattern doesn't a...