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01:03 pm GMT - Sat, April 28, 2018
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Practical Jokes in the Browser
I know April Fools Day is at the beginning of this month, but hey, now youve got a year to prepare. Not to mention a gool ol practical joke can be done anytime.Fair warning on this stuff you gotta be ...
03:10 pm GMT - Fri, April 27, 2018
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CSS Blocks
A new entry into the CSS-in-JS landscape! Looks like the idea is that you write an individual CSS file for every component. You have to work in components, that's how the whole thing works. In the sam...
02:01 pm GMT - Thu, April 26, 2018
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Radial Gradient Recipes
Radial gradients are pretty dang cool. It's amazing we can paint the background of an element with them so easily. Easily is a relative term though. It's certainly easier than needing to create a grap...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, April 26, 2018
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Level Up Your JavaScript Error Monitoring
(This is a sponsored post.)Automatically detect and diagnose JavaScript errors impacting your users with Bugsnag without changing your code or adding try/catch blocks. Get comprehensive diagnostic rep...
01:36 pm GMT - Wed, April 25, 2018
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Understanding React `setState`
React components can, and often do, have state. State can be anything, but think of things like whether a user is logged in or not and displaying the correct username based on which account is active....
09:04 pm GMT - Tue, April 24, 2018
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Grid to Flex
Una Kravets shows how to make layouts in CSS Grid with flexbox fallbacks for browsers that dont support those grid properties just yet. Una writes:CSS grid is AMAZING! However, if you need to support ...
05:30 pm GMT - Tue, April 24, 2018
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JAMstack Comments
JAMstack sites are often seen as being static. A more accurate mental model for them would be that they are sites which have the ability to be hosted statically. The difference might seem semantic, bu...
01:36 pm GMT - Tue, April 24, 2018
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Server-Side Visualization With Nightmare
This is an extract from chapter 11 of Ashley Daviss book Data Wrangling with JavaScript now available on the Manning Early Access Program. I absolutely love this idea as there is so much data visualiz...
01:35 pm GMT - Mon, April 23, 2018
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Native-Like Animations for Page Transitions on the Web
Some of the most inspiring examples Ive seen of front end development have involved some sort of page transitions that look slick, like they do in mobile apps. However, even though the imagination for...
01:58 pm GMT - Fri, April 20, 2018
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Choosing a Responsive Email Framework:MJML vs. Foundation for Emails
Implementing responsive email design can be a bit of a drag. Building responsive emails isnt simple at all, it is like taking a time machine back to 2001 when we were all coding website layouts in tab...
01:58 pm GMT - Fri, April 20, 2018
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Choosing a Responsive Email Framework: MJML vs. Foundation for Emails
Implementing responsive email design can be a bit of a drag. Building responsive emails isnt simple at all, it is like taking a time machine back to 2001 when we were all coding website layouts in tab...
01:58 pm GMT - Thu, April 19, 2018
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What are Higher-Order Components in React?
If you have been in the React ecosystem for a while, there is a possibility that you have heard about Higher Order Components. Lets look at a simple implementation while also trying to explain the cor...
01:57 pm GMT - Thu, April 19, 2018
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Scroll to the Future
This is an interesting read on the current state of scrollbars and how to control their behavior across operating systems and browsers. The post also highlights a bunch of stuff I didnt know about, li...
01:56 pm GMT - Thu, April 19, 2018
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Kinsta
(This is a sponsored post.)Huge thanks to Kinsta for sponsoring CSS-Tricks this week! We're big fans of WordPress around here, and know some of you out there are too. So this might come of interest: K...
04:01 pm GMT - Wed, April 18, 2018
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VuePress Static Site Generator
VuePress is a new tool from Vue creator Even You that spins up Vue projects that are more on the side of websites based on content and markup than progressive web applications and does it with a few s...
01:15 pm GMT - Wed, April 18, 2018
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Creating a Panning Effect for SVG
Earlier this month on the Animation at Work Slack, we had a discussion about finding a way to let users pan inside an SVG.I made this demo below to show how I'd approach this question:See the Pen Demo...
01:41 pm GMT - Tue, April 17, 2018
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Hey hey `font-display`
Y'all know about font-display? It's pretty great. It's a CSS property that you can use within @font-face blocks to control how, visually, that font loads. Font loading is really pretty damn complicate...
01:26 pm GMT - Mon, April 16, 2018
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1 HTML Element 5 CSS Properties = Magic!
Let's say I told you we can get the results below with just one HTML element and five CSS properties for each. No SVG, no images (save for the background on the root that's there just to make clear th...
01:26 pm GMT - Mon, April 16, 2018
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Museum of Websites
The team at Kapwing has collected a lot of images from the Internet Archives Wayback Machine and presented a history of how the homepage of popular websites like Google and the New York Times have cha...
01:15 pm GMT - Mon, April 16, 2018
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BigCommerce: eCommerce Your Way (and Design Awards!)
Huge thanks to BigCommerce for sponsoring CSS-Tricks this week!Here's the basics: BigCommerce is a hosted eCommerce platform. In just a few minutes, anybody can build their own online store. From a pe...
06:00 pm GMT - Sat, April 14, 2018
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Some Recent Live Coding Favorites
There is no shortage of videos out there where you can watch people code with an educational vibe. A golden age, one might say. Here are a few that I've watched and really enjoyed lately:@keyframers -...
02:45 pm GMT - Fri, April 13, 2018
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New CSS Features Are Enhancing Everything You Know About Web Design
We just hit you with a slab of observations about CSS Grid in a new post by Manuel Matuzo. Grid has been blowing our minds since it was formally introduced and Jen Simmons is connecting it (among othe...
01:45 pm GMT - Fri, April 13, 2018
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Another Collection of Interesting Facts About CSS Grid
Last year, I assembled A Collection of Interesting Facts about CSS Grid Layout after giving a workshop. This year, I was worked on another workshop and I've learned some more exciting facts about the ...
09:31 pm GMT - Thu, April 12, 2018
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Its Time for an RSS Revival
Brian Barrett:Tired of Twitter? Facebook fatigued? It's time to head back to RSS.I'm an RSS reader lover, so I hate to admit it, but RSS ain't going mainstream. It was too nerdy 20 years ago and it's ...
09:30 pm GMT - Thu, April 12, 2018
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Wufoo and Worldpay
(This is a sponsored post.)Huge thanks to Wufoo for sponsoring CSS-Tricks this week! Like it says in the sidebar on this very site, weve been using Wufoo for literally over a decade. Its the easiest a...
02:05 pm GMT - Thu, April 12, 2018
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Working With the new CSS Typed Object Model
Eric Bidelman introduces the CSS Typed Object Model. It looks like it's going to make dealing with getting and setting style values through JavaScript easier and less error-prone. Less stringy, more n...
02:01 pm GMT - Thu, April 12, 2018
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How to Create a Component Library From SVG Illustrations
Ive recently published my first ever open source npm package! It makes SVG illustrations from unDraw into customizable React components.Heres a GIF that shows what I mean:Whats unDraw?While unDraw is ...
02:01 pm GMT - Thu, April 12, 2018
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BigCommerce Sponsored Post
Huge thanks to BigCommerce for sponsoring CSS-Tricks this week!Here's the basics: BigCommerce is a hosted eCommerce platform. In just a few minutes, anybody can build their own online store. From a pe...
01:56 pm GMT - Wed, April 11, 2018
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List Rendering and Vues v-for Directive
List rendering is one of the most commonly used practices in front-end web development. Dynamic list rendering is often used to present a series of similarly grouped information in a concise and frien...
01:55 pm GMT - Wed, April 11, 2018
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Going Offline
Jeremy Keith has written a new book all about service workers and offline functionality that releases at the end of the month. The first chapter is posted on A List Apart. Now that the latest versions...
01:48 pm GMT - Tue, April 10, 2018
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Displaying the Weather With Serverless and Colors
I like to jog. Sometimes its cold out. Sometimes its cold out, but it looks like it isnt. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping. Then you step outside in shorts and a t-shirt and realize you have...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, April 9, 2018
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Simple Swipe With Vanilla JavaScript
I used to think implementing swipe gestures had to be very difficult, but I have recently found myself in a situation where I had to do it and discovered the reality is nowhere near as gloomy as I had...
12:56 pm GMT - Sun, April 8, 2018
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`:focus-visible` and backwards compatibility
Patrick H. Lauke covers the future CSS pseudo class :focus-visible. We're in the early days of browser support, but it aims to solve an awkward situation:... focus styles can often be undesirable when...
04:20 pm GMT - Sat, April 7, 2018
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Keep Pixelated Images Pixelated as They Scale
This is a little reminder that there is a CSS property for helping control what happens to images as they scale up: image-rendering. We're quite used to the idea that scaling an image larger than its ...
06:17 pm GMT - Fri, April 6, 2018
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Just
Brad Frost's "Just" article from a few years ago has struck a fresh nerve with folks. It's a simple word that can slip out easily, that might be invoked to keep text casual-feeling, but the result can...
02:11 pm GMT - Fri, April 6, 2018
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Methods, Computed, and Watchers in Vue.js
One of the reasons I love working with Vue is because of how useful methods, computed, and watchers are, and the legibility of their distinction. Until understanding all three, its difficult to levera...
10:44 pm GMT - Thu, April 5, 2018
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Designing Button States
Tyler Sticka on the complexity of designing buttons and making sure that weve taken into consideration focus, hover and active states during the design process:In truth, mouse effects are probably the...
10:42 pm GMT - Thu, April 5, 2018
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Static File Hosting Doesnt Have To Be So Static
A huge high-five and welcome to Netlify for the sponsorship this week.If you haven't heard of Netlify, the big thing you should know is that it's web hosting, but more than that. It's web hosting with...
10:41 pm GMT - Thu, April 5, 2018
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Creating Themeable Design Systems
Brad frost picks up the ongoing conversation about design systems. Where many posts seem to center on how to create one and how to enforce it, the big takeaway here is that design systems are not syno...
01:58 pm GMT - Thu, April 5, 2018
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A Quick Way to Remember the Difference Between `justify-content` and `align-items`
I was talking with a pal the other day and moaning about flexbox for the millionth time because I had momentarily forgotten the difference between the justify-content and align-items properties."How d...
01:57 pm GMT - Thu, April 5, 2018
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The future of data collection is here
(This is a sponsored post.)Who said collecting data was easy? JotForm did. In todays world, getting relevant data has never been more important for making informed business decisions. The thing is, co...
09:04 pm GMT - Wed, April 4, 2018
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How to Write a Git Commit Message
An oldie but goodie, Chris Beams writes about the secret art of writing helpful Git commit messages. Heres why he thinks its so important:If you havent given much thought to what makes a great Git com...
01:37 pm GMT - Wed, April 4, 2018
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Why would you do that in CSS?
Have you seen Lynn Fisher's extraordinary A Single Div project? Not only are all these graphics drawn in just HTML and CSS, they are all created with (you guessed it) a single . Why would she do that?...
09:20 pm GMT - Tue, April 3, 2018
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Animated SVG Radial Progress Bars
Dave Rupert shows us all how to animate radial progress bars in SVG with a tiny script alongside the stroke-dasharray and stroke-dashoffset properties:For a client project we tasked ourselves with bui...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, April 3, 2018
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Scooped Corners in 2018
When I saw Chris' article on notched boxes, I remembered that I got a challenge a while ago to CSS a design like it, but with rounded, scooped corners instead. So, let's see how we can do it that way ...
01:36 pm GMT - Tue, April 3, 2018
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Ruby Sass to be put to pasture on March 26, 2019
There have long been multiple implementations of Sass. Most notably, the canonical Ruby version, now at 3.5.6. Then there is LibSass, the C++ version, which is at version 3.4 and...Current LibSass 3.4...
09:32 pm GMT - Mon, April 2, 2018
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IBM Plex
Heres a free new font for IBM Plex, a family of typefaces by the iconic company of the same name. It's on Google Fonts if you want to use it.And we're talking about a multifaceted font. It touts havin...
06:55 pm GMT - Mon, April 2, 2018
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Catching up on AMP News
The big news since we last talked about AMP is that the AMP team announced that there will be a way for non-AMP sites to make their way into the coveted Google search results carousel. Malte Ubl:Based...
01:29 pm GMT - Mon, April 2, 2018
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Iron Mans Arc Reactor Using CSS3 Transforms and Animations
Alright Iron Man fans, fire up your code editors! We are going to make the Arc reactor from Iron Mans suit in CSS. Heres what the end result will look like:See the Pen Iron Man's Arc Reactor by Kunal ...
01:23 pm GMT - Sun, April 1, 2018
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w descriptors and sizes: Under the hood
Eric Portis digs into how the browser decides which image to downloads when you give it <img srcset="" sizes"">. Notably, a browser can do whatever it wants:Intentionally un-specified behavior...
10:52 pm GMT - Sat, March 31, 2018
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Scooped Corners in 2018
When I saw Chris' article on notched boxes, I remembered that I got a challenge a while ago to CSS a design like it, but with rounded, scooped corners instead. So, let's see how we can do it that way ...
01:39 pm GMT - Sat, March 31, 2018
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A DevTools for Designers
There has long been an unfortunate disconnect between visual design for the web and web design and development. We're over here designing pictures of websites, not websites - so the sentiment goes. A....