Articles by CSS Tricks from November 2021

Apple Music has this “Spatial Audio” feature where the direction of the music in your headphones is based on the location of the device. It’s tough to explain just how neat it is. Bu...

This is a neat idea for a research project. The big map is fun, but the research had some tidbits in it worth looking at.The average favicon network request takes 130ms, at least from our speedy cloud...

I’ve got some blind spots in CSS-related performance things. One example is the will-change property. It’s a good name. You’re telling the browser some particular property (or the sc...

I love little touches that make a website feel like more than just a static document. What if web content wouldnt just appear when a page loaded, but instead popped, slid, faded, or spun into place? I...

The browser has long been a medium for art and design. From Lynn Fisher’s joyful A Single Div creations to Diana Smith’s staggeringly detailed CSS paintings, wildly creative, highly skille...

Tyler Sticka digs in here in the best possible way: by making a test page and literally measuring performance. Maybe 1,000 icons is a little bit of an edge case, but hey, 250 rows of data with four ic...

Many business websites need a multilingual setup. As with anything development-related, implementing one in an easy, efficient, and maintainable way is desirable. Designing and developing to be ready ...

Inspired by Eva PenzeyMoog’s new book, Jeremy highlights the widespread user tracking situation in this industry:There was a line that really stood out to me: The idea that its alright...

A reader wrote to me the other day asking about this bit of CSS they came across in Wikipedia’s Common.css:.mw-collapsible-leftside-toggle .mw-collapsible-toggle { /* @noflip */ float: le...

We cannot talk about web development without talking about Responsive Design. Its just a given these days and has been for many years. Media queries are a part of Responsive Design and they arent goin...

I’m not the biggest fan of Atomic CSS myself. I don’t like all the classes. I like to express my styles in CSS because I find CSS… good. But I appreciate that a lot of people seem to...

A tournament bracket UI where you pick your favorite between two coding fonts and your choices are whittled down all the way to a final winner. A clever way to suss out your own taste and arrive at a ...

Good friend Kent C. Dodds has recently dropped his new website which had a lot of work go into it. I was fortunate enough that Kent reached out a while back and asked if I could come up with some R...

VS Code is built from web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript), but dare I say today it’s mostly used a local app that’s installed on your machine. That’s starting to shift, thou...

Dealing with dates and times is one of those things that can frustrate programmers a lot. At the same time, they are fundamental to software development, used from everything from meta and how things ...

I feel like half of all “custom-designed radio buttons and checkboxes” do two things:Make them biggerColorize themI always think of SurveyMonkey for having big chunky radios and checkboxes...

Like this: <input type="search">You get an extra-round-y appearance in Safari, which at one time matched the macOS look for search inputs, but not really anymore. I don’t hate the look, ...

In part 5 of this series, we looked at rebasing and merging. Although there are a couple of differences between git merge and git rebase, both commands have the same goal: they integrate changes from ...

Egor Kloos describes a situation where a (purely visual) designer asks for some changes to a component. There is a misunderstanding where the (code monkey) developer implements the change exactly as r...

Upon hearing “sticky footer” these days, I would think most people imagine a position: sticky situation where a footer element appears fixed on the screen while in the scrolling context of...

Mary Dyson produces nitty gritty research on the long-accepted notion that shorter line lengths are more legible than longer ones. The study finds that shorter lines do not necessarily lead to faster ...

Jamstack has been in the website world for years. Static Site Generators (SSGs) which often have content that lives right within a GitHub repo itself are a big part of that story. That opens up the ...

That’s the name of Netlify’s YouTube Channel. Love that. I linked up Rich’s talk the other day, which was a part of this past JamstackConf, but now all the talks are up on there. Ric...

In my “Different Degrees of Custom Property Usage” article, I noted a situation about colors and CSS custom properties where I went “too far” with breaking up HSL color va...

Theming UI refers to the ability to perform a change in visual styles in a consistent manner that defines the look and feel of a site. Swapping color palettes, la dark mode or some other means, is a ...

Remember when Ahmad Shadeed wrote about that border-radius “toggle” he found in Facebook’s CSS? It was interesting! I covered it. A few weeks after that surge of linkage, a couple of...

Interactive Rebase is the Swiss Army knife of Git commands: lots of use cases and lots of possibilities! It's really a great addition to any developer's tool chain, because it lets you revise your loc...

Scott digs into the history of the <menu> element. He traced it as far back as HTML 2 (!) in a 1994 changelog. The vibe then, it seems, was to mark up a list. I would suspect the intention ...

I was working on a large React application for a startup, and aside from just wanting some good strategies to keep our styles organized, I wanted to give this whole dark mode thing a shot. With the hu...

(This is a sponsored post.)Measuring things is great. They say what you only fix what you measure. Raygun is great at measuring websites. Measuring performance, measuring errors and crashes, measuring...

Whatever, I just needed a title. Everyone’s favorite web security feature has crossed my desk a bunch of times lately and I always feel like that is a sign I should write something because that&...

Oh, Bootstrap, that old standard web library that either you hate or you spend all your time defending as its fine, its not that bad. Regardless of what side you fall on, its a powerful UI framework t...

Nice domain, eh? Does just what it says on the tin: cleans up pictures. You draw over areas of the image you want cleaned up, and it does its best using weird science. It’s like Photoshop’...

Louis Lazaris breaks down some bonafide CSS trickery from Jane. The Pen shows off interactivity where:You have to press a special combination of keys on a keyboard.Then type a secret password.From the...

(This is a sponsored post.)The leade here is that VideoPress makes video on WordPress way better. VideoPress is a part of Jetpack. And now, if VideoPress is the only thing you care about from the Jetp...

Suspense is Reacts forthcoming feature that helps coordinate asynchronous actionslike data loadingallowing you to easily prevent inconsistent state in your UI. I’ll provide a better explanation ...

Bonafide CSS trick alert! Nelson Menezes figured out a new way (that only works in Firefox for now) that is awfully clever.Perhaps you know that CSS cannot animate to auto dimensions, which is super u...

I recently came across a cool effect known as glassmorphism in a Dribble shot. My first thought was I could quickly recreate it in a few minutes if I just use some emojis for the icons without wasting...

Just ran across les, a new static site generator mostly centered around Vue. The world has no particular shortage of static site generators, but it’s interesting to see what this “next gen...

ime Vidas DM’d me the other day about this thread from subzey on Twitter. My HTML for favicons was like this:<!-- Warning! Typo! --<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" size="any"<lin...

One of the toughest things about being someone who cares deeply about design systems is making the case for a dedicated design system. Folks in leadership will often ask you to prove the value of it. ...

We have many well-known chart types: bar, donut, line, pie, you name it. All popular chart libraries support these. Then there are the chart types that do not even have a name. Check out this dreamt-u...

I only just recently learned the enterkeyhint attribute on form inputs was a thing! It seems like kind of a big deal to me, as crafting HTML form markup is a decent slice of a front-end developer̵...

Josh Collingsworth is clearly a big fan of Svelte, so while this is a fun and useful comparison article, it’s here to crown Svelte the winner all the way through.A few things I find compelling:O...

Steve Ruiz calls this post an “extra-obscure edition of design tool micro-UX,” but I find it fascinating! If you select a bunch of elements in a design tool, then rotate then, then later s...

The Scroll-linked Animations specification is an upcoming and experimental addition that allows us to link animation-progress to scroll-progress: as you scroll up and down a scroll container, a linked...

In June of 1995, representatives from Microsoft arrived at the Netscape offices. The stated goal was to find ways to work togetherNetscape as the single dominant force in the browser market and Micros...

First, check out how incredibly easy it is to write a Cloudflare Worker to proxy another URL:addEventListener("fetch", (event) ={ event.respondWith( fetch("https://css-tricks.com") );});It doesn...

I keep bookmarking Adam’s GUI Challenges posts/videos and, before I even have a chance to review and link them up, another one is already published! Fortunately, the homepage for them on web.dev...

This article is part of our Advanced Git series. Be sure to follow us on Twitter or sign up for our newsletter to hear about the next articles!Most developers understand that it’s important to u...

High five to Jeremy on the big release of Responsible JavaScript on A Book Apart. There is a lot of talk about how the proliferation of JavaScript has had a negative impact on the web, but now we have...

There are thousands of articles out there about buttons and links on the web; the differences and how to use them properly. Hey, I don’t mind. I wrote my own as well.It’s such a common mis...

A big heaping 19-minute bowl of not-too-hot, not-too-cold baby bear porridge website building from Rich Harris. I’ve certainly overheard more than my fair share of arguments about Single Page Ap...

Were all familiar with the concept of autocompletion, right? You type something into a search box and it tries to guess what youre looking for as you type, displaying suggestions, often below the curs...

Recently, while looking for some ideas on what to code as I have zero artistic sense so the only thing I can do is find pretty things that other people have come up with and remake them with clean and...