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08:35 pm GMT - Fri, March 29, 2019
CSS Tricks Scroll-Linked Animations
You scroll down to a certain point, now you want to style things in a certain way. A header becomes fixed. An animation triggers. A table of contents appears. To do anything based on scroll position, ...
02:15 pm GMT - Fri, March 29, 2019
CSS Tricks Creating a Reusable Pagination Component in Vue
The idea behind most of web applications is to fetch data from the database and present it to the user in the best possible way. When we deal with data there are cases when the best possible way of pr...
02:14 pm GMT - Fri, March 29, 2019
CSS Tricks You probably dont need input type=number
Brad Frost wrote about a recent experience with a website that used <input type="number">:Last week I got a call from my bank regarding a wire transfer I had just scheduled. The customer suppo...
08:13 pm GMT - Thu, March 28, 2019
CSS Tricks Powers of Two
Refactoring is one of those words that evokes fear in the eyes of many folks, from developers to product owners and everyone in between. It may as well be a four-letter word in many ways. It's also so...
02:14 pm GMT - Thu, March 28, 2019
CSS Tricks CSS Houdini Could Change the Way We Write and Manage CSS
CSS Houdini may be the most exciting development in CSS. Houdini is comprised of a number of separate APIs, each shipping to browsers separately, and some that have already shipped (here's the browser...
12:47 pm GMT - Thu, March 28, 2019
CSS Tricks Jetpack Gutenberg Blocks
I remember when Gutenberg was released into core, because I was at WordCamp US that day. A number of months have gone by now, so I imagine more and more of us on WordPress sites have dipped our toes i...
12:42 pm GMT - Thu, March 28, 2019
CSS Tricks A Gutenburg-Powered Newsletter
I like Gutenberg, the new WordPress editor. I'm not oblivious to all the conversation around accessibility, UX, and readiness, but I know how hard it is to ship software and I'm glad WordPress got it ...
10:20 pm GMT - Wed, March 27, 2019
CSS Tricks Next Genpm
So many web projects use npm to pull in their dependencies, for both the front end and back. npm install and away it goes, pulling thousands of files into a node_modules folder in our projects to impo...
07:47 pm GMT - Wed, March 27, 2019
CSS Tricks Better Than Native
Andy Bell wrote up his thoughts about the whole web versus native app debate which I think is super interesting. It was hard to make it through the post because I was nodding so aggressively as I read...
02:54 pm GMT - Wed, March 27, 2019
CSS Tricks Breaking CSS Custom Properties out of :root Might Be a Good Idea
CSS Custom Properties have been a hot topic for a while now, with tons of great articles about them, from great primers on how they work to creative tutorials to do some real magic with them. If youve...
02:19 pm GMT - Tue, March 26, 2019
CSS Tricks An Illustrated (and Musical) Guide to Map, Reduce, and Filter Array Methods
Map, reduce, and filter are three very useful array methods in JavaScript that give developers a ton of power in a short amount of space. Lets jump right into how you can leverage (and remember how to...
02:16 pm GMT - Tue, March 26, 2019
CSS Tricks Buddy: 15 Minutes to Automation Nirvana
(This is a sponsored post.)Deploying a website to the server in 2019 requires much more effort than 10 years ago. For example, here's what needs to be done nowadays to deliver a typical JS app:split t...
01:07 am GMT - Tue, March 26, 2019
CSS Tricks Understanding Event Emitters
Consider, a DOM Event:const button = document.querySelector("button");button.addEventListener("click", (event) => /* do something with the event */)We added a listener to a button click. Weve subs...
02:23 pm GMT - Mon, March 25, 2019
CSS Tricks Simple & Boring
Simplicity is a funny adjective in web design and development. I'm sure it's a quoted goal for just about every project ever done. Nobody walks into a kickoff meeting like, "Hey team, design something...
01:39 pm GMT - Sun, March 24, 2019
CSS Tricks Podcasts on The Great Divide
Nick Nisi, Suz Hinton, and Kevin Ball talk about The Great Divide in JS Party #61, then I get to join Suz and Jerod again in episode #67 to talk about it again. Dave and I also got into it a bit in Sh...
06:45 pm GMT - Fri, March 22, 2019
CSS Tricks All About mailto: Links
You can make a garden variety anchor link (<a>) open up a new email. Let's take a little journey into this feature. It's pretty easy to use, but as with anything web, there are lots of things ...
12:27 pm GMT - Fri, March 22, 2019
CSS Tricks Advanced Tooling for Web Components
Over the course of the last four articles in this five-part series, weve taken a broad look at the technologies that make up the Web Components standards. First, we looked at how to create HTML templa...
09:06 pm GMT - Thu, March 21, 2019
CSS Tricks Using for Menus and Dialogs is an Interesting Idea
One of the most empowering things you can learn as a new front-end developer who is starting to learn JavaScript is to change classes. If you can change classes, you can use your CSS skills to control...
09:05 pm GMT - Thu, March 21, 2019
CSS Tricks Technical Debt is Like Tetris
Heres a wonderful post by Eric Higgins all about refactoring and technical debt. He compares giant refactoring projects to being similar to Tetris:Similar to running a business, Tetris gets harder the...
03:58 pm GMT - Thu, March 21, 2019
CSS Tricks Its pretty cool how Netlify CMS works with any flat file site generator
Little confession here: when I first saw Netlify CMS at a glance, I thought: cool, maybe I'll try that someday when I'm exploring CMSs for a new project. Then as I looked at it with fresh eyes: I can ...
12:39 pm GMT - Thu, March 21, 2019
CSS Tricks Encapsulating Style and Structure with Shadow DOM
This is part four of a five-part series discussing the Web Components specifications. In part one, we took a 10,000-foot view of the specifications and what they do. In part two, we set out to build a...
08:06 pm GMT - Wed, March 20, 2019
CSS Tricks Blurred Borders in CSS
Say we want to target an element and just visually blur the border of it. There is no simple, single built-in web platform feature we can reach for. But we can get it done with a little CSS trickery.H...
04:47 pm GMT - Wed, March 20, 2019
CSS Tricks Some Notes About Accessibility
Earlier this month Eric Bailey wrote about the current state of accessibility on the web and why it felt like fighting an uphill battle:As someone with a good deal of interest in the digital accessibi...
12:25 pm GMT - Wed, March 20, 2019
CSS Tricks Creating a Custom Element from Scratch
In the last article, we got our hands dirty with Web Components by creating an HTML template that is in the document but not rendered until we need it.Next up, were going to continue our quest to crea...
09:47 pm GMT - Tue, March 19, 2019
CSS Tricks Chrome Lite Pages
The Chrome team announced a new feature called Lite Pages that can be activated by flipping on the Data Saver option on an Android device:Chrome on Androids Data Saver feature helps by automatically o...
05:24 pm GMT - Tue, March 19, 2019
CSS Tricks Using Local with Flywheel
Have you seen Local by Flywheel? It's a native app for helping set up local WordPress developer environments. I absolutely love it and use it to do all my local WordPress development work. It brings a...
02:42 pm GMT - Tue, March 19, 2019
CSS Tricks Stacked Borders
A little while back, I was in the process of adding focus styles to An Event Aparts web site. Part of that was applying different focus effects in different areas of the design, like white rings in t...
12:26 pm GMT - Tue, March 19, 2019
CSS Tricks Crafting Reusable HTML Templates
In our last article, we discussed the Web Components specifications (custom elements, shadow DOM, and HTML templates) at a high-level. In this article, and the three to follow, we will put these techn...
02:28 pm GMT - Mon, March 18, 2019
CSS Tricks The Whole Spreadsheets as Databases Thing is Pretty Cool
A spreadsheet has always been a strong (if fairly literal) analogy for a database. A database has tables, which is like a single spreadsheet. Imagine a spreadsheet for tracking RSVPs for a wedding. Ac...
12:47 pm GMT - Mon, March 18, 2019
CSS Tricks An Introduction to Web Components
Front-end development moves at a break-neck pace. This is made evident by the myriad articles, tutorials, and Twitter threads bemoaning the state of what once was a fairly simple tech stack. In this a...
10:26 pm GMT - Fri, March 15, 2019
CSS Tricks People Digging into Grid Sizing and Layout Possibilities
Jen Simmons has been coining the term intrinsic design, referring to a new era in web layout where the sizing of content has gone beyond fluid columns and media query breakpoints and into, I dunno, so...
05:38 pm GMT - Fri, March 15, 2019
CSS Tricks Design Systems and Portfolios
In my experience working with design systems, Ive found that I have to sacrifice my portfolio to do it well. Unlike a lot of other design work where its relatively easy to present Dribbble-worthy inte...
05:37 pm GMT - Fri, March 15, 2019
CSS Tricks See No Evil: Hidden Content and Accessibility
There is no one true way to hide something on the web. Nor should there be, because hiding is too vague. Are you hiding visually or temporarily (like a user menu), but the content should still be acce...
03:22 pm GMT - Fri, March 15, 2019
CSS Tricks Web Standards Meet User-Land: Using CSS-in-JS to Style Custom Elements
The popularity of CSS-in-JS has mostly come from the React community, and indeed many CSS-in-JS libraries are React-specific. However, Emotion, the most popular library in terms of npm downloads, is f...
08:50 pm GMT - Thu, March 14, 2019
CSS Tricks Little Things That Tickled My Brain from An Event Apart Seattle
I had so much fun at An Event Apart Seattle! There is something nice about sitting back and basking in the messages from a variety of such super smart people. I didn't take comprehensive notes of each...
02:28 pm GMT - Thu, March 14, 2019
CSS Tricks 7 things you should know when getting started with Serverless APIs
I want you to take a second and think about Twitter, and think about it in terms of scale. Twitter has 326 million users. Collectively, we create ~6,000 tweets every second. Every minute, thats 360,00...
02:25 pm GMT - Thu, March 14, 2019
CSS Tricks Perfect Image Optimization for Mobile with Optimole
(This is a sponsored post.)In 2015 there were 24,000 different Android devices, and each of them was capable of downloading images. And this was just the beginning. The mobile era is starting to gathe...
10:12 pm GMT - Wed, March 13, 2019
CSS Tricks The Benefits of Structuring CSS Around Appearance and Layout
I like this point that Jonathan Snook made on Twitter and Ive been thinking about it non-stop because it describes something thats really hard about writing CSS:I feel like that tweet sounds either ve...
06:59 pm GMT - Wed, March 13, 2019
CSS Tricks The Process of Implementing A UI Design From Scratch
This is a fantastic post by Ahmad Shadeed. It digs into the practical construction of a header on a website — the kind of work that many of us regularly do. It looks like it's going to be fairly...
02:33 pm GMT - Wed, March 13, 2019
CSS Tricks Planning for Responsive Images
The first time I made an image responsive, it was as simple as coding these four lines:img { max-width: 100%; height auto; /* default */}Though that worked for me as a developer, it wasnt the best f...
02:29 pm GMT - Wed, March 13, 2019
CSS Tricks Designing An Aspect Ratio Unit For CSS
Rachel Andrew says that the CSS Working Group designed an aspect ration unit at a recent meeting. The idea is to find an elegant solution to those times when we want the height of an element to be cal...
12:07 am GMT - Wed, March 13, 2019
CSS Tricks Smooth Scrolling for Screencasts
Let's say you wanted to scroll a web page from top to bottom programmatically. For example, you're recording a screencast and want a nice full-page scroll. You probably can't scroll it yourself becaus...
12:06 am GMT - Wed, March 13, 2019
CSS Tricks Application Holotypes
It's entirely too common to make broad-sweeping statements about all websites. Jason Miller:We often make generalizations about applications we see in the wild, both anecdotal and statistical: "Single...
02:24 pm GMT - Tue, March 12, 2019
CSS Tricks Getting into GraphQL with AWS AppSync
GraphQL is becoming increasingly popular. The problem is that if you are a front-end developer, you are only half of the way there. GraphQL is not just a client technology. The server also has to be i...
02:23 pm GMT - Tue, March 12, 2019
CSS Tricks Stackbit
This is not a sponsored post. I requested a beta access for this site called Stackbit a while back, got my invite the other day, and thought it was a darn fine idea that's relevant to us web nerds ...
05:25 pm GMT - Mon, March 11, 2019
CSS Tricks Downsides of Smooth Scrolling
Smooth scrolling has gotten a lot easier. If you want it all the time on your page, and you are happy letting the browser deal with the duration for you, it's a single line of CSS:html { scroll-behav...
05:23 pm GMT - Mon, March 11, 2019
CSS Tricks Accessibility is not a React Problem
Leslie Cohn-Wein's main point:While [lots of divs, inline styles, focus management problems] are valid concerns, it should be noted that nothing in React prevents us from building accessible web apps....
02:39 pm GMT - Mon, March 11, 2019
CSS Tricks Extending Google Analytics on CSS-Tricks with Custom Dimensions
The idea for this article sparked when Chris wrote this in Thank You (2018 Edition):I almost wish our URLs had years in them because I still don't have a way to scope analytic data to only show me dat...
02:37 pm GMT - Mon, March 11, 2019
CSS Tricks Get Started with Node: An Introduction to APIs, HTTP and ES6 JavaScript
Jamie Corkhill has written this wonderful post about Node and I think its perhaps one of the best technical articles Ive ever read. Not only is it jam-packed with information for folks like me who are...
10:51 pm GMT - Sun, March 10, 2019
CSS Tricks The Dark Side of the Grid
Manuel Matuzovic makes the point that in order to use CSS grid in some fairly simple markup scenarios, we might be tempted to flatten our HTML to make sure all the elements we need to can participate ...
03:20 pm GMT - Fri, March 8, 2019
CSS Tricks HMTL, CSS and JS in an ADD, OCD, Bi-Polar, Dyslexic and Autistic World
Hey CSS-Tricksters! A lot of folks tweeted, emailed, commented and even courier pigeoned (OK, maybe not that) stories about their personal journeys learning web development after we published "The Gre...
03:20 pm GMT - Fri, March 8, 2019
CSS Tricks HTML, CSS and JS in an ADD, OCD, Bi-Polar, Dyslexic and Autistic World
Hey CSS-Tricksters! A lot of folks tweeted, emailed, commented and even courier pigeoned (OK, maybe not that) stories about their personal journeys learning web development after we published "The Gre...
03:26 pm GMT - Thu, March 7, 2019
CSS Tricks Styling Based on Scroll Position
Rik Schennink documents a system for being able to write CSS selectors that style a page when it has scrolled to a certain point. If you're like me, you're already on the lookout for document.addEvent...
03:18 pm GMT - Thu, March 7, 2019
CSS Tricks 8 Little Videos About the Firefox Shape Path Editor
It sometimes takes a quick 35 seconds for a concept to really sink in. Mikael Ainalem delivers that here, in the case that you haven't quite grokked the concepts behind path-based CSS properties like ...
03:17 pm GMT - Thu, March 7, 2019
CSS Tricks Level up your JavaScript error monitoring
(This is a sponsored post.)Automatically detect and diagnose JavaScript errors impacting your users with Bugsnag. Get comprehensive diagnostic reports, know immediately which errors are worth fixing, ...
12:07 am GMT - Thu, March 7, 2019
CSS Tricks Using React Loadable for Code Splitting by Components and Routes
In a bid to have web applications serve needs for different types of users, its likely that more code is required than it would be for one type of user so the app can handle and adapt to different sce...
09:33 pm GMT - Wed, March 6, 2019
CSS Tricks Native Video on the Web
TIL about the HLS video format:HLS stands for HTTP Live Streaming. Its an adaptive bitrate streaming protocol developed by Apple. One of those sentences to casually drop at any party. h. Back on track...
07:13 pm GMT - Wed, March 6, 2019
CSS Tricks CSS Algorithms
I wouldn't say the term "CSS algorithm" has widespread usage yet, but I think Lara Schenck might be onto something. She defines it as:a well-defined declaration or set of declarations that produces a ...
04:04 pm GMT - Wed, March 6, 2019
CSS Tricks Extracting Text from Content Using HTML Slot, HTML Template and Shadow DOM
Chapter names in books, quotes from a speech, keywords in an article, stats on a report these are all types of content that could be helpful to isolate and turn into a high-level summary of what's im...
03:52 pm GMT - Wed, March 6, 2019
CSS Tricks The Client/Server Rendering Spectrum
I've definitely been guilty of thinking about rendering on the web as a two-horse race. There is Server-Side Rendering (SSR, like this WordPress site is doing) and Client-Side Rendering (CSR, like a t...
03:51 pm GMT - Wed, March 6, 2019
CSS Tricks Refactoring Tunnels
Weve been writing a lot about refactoring CSS lately, from how to take a slow and methodical approach to getting some quick wins. As a result, Ive been reading a ton about this topic and somehow stumb...
03:37 pm GMT - Tue, March 5, 2019
CSS Tricks The Bottleneck of the Web
Steve Souders, "JavaScript Dominates Browser CPU": Ten years ago the network was the main bottleneck. Today, the main bottleneck is JavaScript. The amount of JavaScript on pages is growing rapidly (ne...
03:36 pm GMT - Tue, March 5, 2019
CSS Tricks Why I Write CSS in JavaScript
I'm never going to tell you that writing your CSS in CSS (or some syntactic preprocessor) is a bad idea. I think you can be perfectly productive and performant without any tooling at all. But, I also ...
12:35 am GMT - Tue, March 5, 2019
CSS Tricks CSS Triangles, Multiple Ways
I like Adam Laki's Quick Tip: CSS Triangles because it covers that ubiquitous fact about front-end techniques: there are always many ways to do the same thing. In this case, drawing a triangle can be ...
03:19 pm GMT - Mon, March 4, 2019
CSS Tricks Learning to Learn
Theres been a lot of talk recently about whether or not you need a degree to be in tech (spoiler: you dont). But please dont take this to mean you dont need any kind of education to be in tech, becaus...
03:16 pm GMT - Mon, March 4, 2019
CSS Tricks CSS Remedy
There is a 15-year history of CSS resets. In fact, a "reset" isn't really the right word. Tantek elik's take in 2004 was called "undohtml.css" and it wasn't until a few years later when Eric Meyer cal...
03:28 pm GMT - Sat, March 2, 2019
CSS Tricks Mask Compositing: The Crash Course
At the start of 2018, as I was starting to go a bit deeper into CSS gradient masking in order to create interesting visuals one would think are impossible otherwise with just a single element and a ti...
11:59 pm GMT - Fri, March 1, 2019
CSS Tricks Do CSS Custom Properties Beat Sass Loops?
I reckon that a lot of our uses of Sass maps can be replaced with CSS Custom properties but hear me out for a sec.When designing components we often need to use the same structure of a component but c...
09:50 pm GMT - Fri, March 1, 2019
CSS Tricks Should I Use Source Maps in Production?
It's a valid question. A "source map" is a special file that connects a minified/uglified version of an asset (CSS or JavaScript) to the original authored version. Say you've got a filed called _heade...
09:47 pm GMT - Fri, March 1, 2019
CSS Tricks Writing Tests for React Applications Using Jest and Enzyme
While it is important to have a well-tested API, solid test coverage is a must for any React application. Tests increase confidence in the code and helps prevent shipping bugs to users. Thats why were...
04:45 pm GMT - Fri, March 1, 2019
CSS Tricks Why CSS Needs its Own Survey
2016 was only three years ago, but thats almost a whole other era in web development terms. The JavaScript landscape was in turmoil, with up-and-comer React as well as a little-known framework called...
04:01 pm GMT - Fri, March 1, 2019
CSS Tricks Recreating the Facebook Messenger Gradient Effect with CSS
One Sunday morning, I woke up a little earlier than I wouldve liked to, thanks to the persistent buzzing of my phone. I reached out, tapped into Facebook Messenger, and joined the conversation. Pretty...
03:21 pm GMT - Thu, February 28, 2019
CSS Tricks I Spun up a Scalable WordPress Server Environment with Trellis, and You Can, Too
A few years back, my fledgling website design agency was starting to take shape; however, we had one problem: managing clients' web servers and code deployments. We were unable to build a streamlined ...
03:12 pm GMT - Thu, February 28, 2019
CSS Tricks Keen makes it a breeze to build and ship customer-facing metrics
(This is a sponsored post.)Keen is an analytics tool that makes it wonderfully easy to collect data. But Keen is unique in that it is designed not just to help you look at that data, but to share that...
03:12 pm GMT - Thu, February 28, 2019
CSS Tricks A Bit of Performance
Heres a great post by Roman Komarov on what he learned by improving the performance of his personal website. Theres a couple of neat things he does to tackle font loading in particular, such as adding...