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• Sticky Headers: 5 Ways to Make Them Better (Css Tricks)
  Page Laubheimer says that if you're going to do a sticky header...
• Platform News: Prefers Contrast, MathML, :is(), and CSS Background Initial Values (Css Tricks)
  In this week’s round-up, prefers-contrast lands in Safari, MathML gets some attention, :is() is actually quite forgiving, more ADA-related…
• Serverless Functions as Proxies (Css Tricks)
  The first time cloud functions / serverless functions clicked for me was when I saw and tried Auth0's (now defunct) Webtask.
• What if we got aspect-ratio sized images by doing almost nothing? (Css Tricks)
  Will it actually display as 800px wide on your site?
• Astro | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  You can't even look at code or documentation for Astro (publicly) yet — it's an in-progress idea — but you can watch a video of Fred showin…
• Animating Number Counters (Css Tricks)
  Number animation, as in, imagine a number changing from 1 to 2, then 2 to 3, then 3 to 4, etc.
• Clipping and Masking in CSS (Css Tricks)
  Both of these things are used to hide some parts of elements and show other parts. But there are, of course, differences between the two.
• The Unseen Performance Costs of Modern CSS-in-JS Libraries | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  This article is full of a bunch of data from Aggelos Arvanitakis.
• Using the Platform (Css Tricks)
  So much care and planning has gone into creating the web platform, to ensure that even as new features are added, they’re added in a way th…
• One Action, Multiple Terminal Windows Running Stuff (Css Tricks)
  Many development environments require running things in a terminal window.
• Domain-Driven Design With React (Css Tricks)
  There is very little guidance on how to organize front-end applications in the world of React.
• How to Build a FullStack Serverless HN Clone With Svelte and Fauna (Css Tricks)
  Svelte is a free and open-source front end Java Script framework that enables developers to build highly performant applications with small…
• scrapestack: An API for Scraping Sites (Css Tricks)
  Not every site has an API to access data from it. If you need to pull that data, one approach is to "scrape" it.
• CSS Animation Timelines: Building a Rube Goldberg Machine (Css Tricks)
  If you're going to build a multi-step CSS animation or transition, you have a particular conundrum.
• Open Prioritization (Css Tricks)
  Like Kickstarter, but for Web Platform Features.
• The Rules of Margin Collapse (Css Tricks)
  Josh Comeau covers the concept of margin collapsing: This idea might sound simple, but if you’ve been writing CSS for a while, you’ve almos…
• The Empty Box (Css Tricks)
  When I was in high school, we learned about “The Black Box” which is concept in theater.
• Styling Based on Scroll Position (Css Tricks)
  Rik Schennink documents a system for being able to write CSS selectors that style a page when it has scrolled to a certain point.
• Float Labels with CSS (Css Tricks)
  You've probably seen this pattern going around.
• Patternico | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  I remember searching for tutorials for making seamless patterns in Photoshop¹ all the time back in the day.
• You want minmax(10px, 1fr) not 1fr (Css Tricks)
  There are a lot of grids on the web like this: .grid { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1 fr); } My message is that what the…
• Using Your Domain with a Netlify-Hosted Site (Css Tricks)
  Netlify has their own docs for Custom Domains, so if you’re looking for horse’s mouth technical docs on this stuff, that should be treated…
• Hamburger Menu Icons (Three Line Menu Icon / Navicon) Different Ways (Css Tricks)
  A universal symbol for "menu" has been on a lot of people's minds lately.
• Adventures in CSS Semi-Transparency Land (Css Tricks)
  Recently, I was asked to make some tweaks to a landing page and, among the things I found in the code, there were two semitransparent overl…
• :nth-child Between Two Fixed Indexes (Css Tricks)
  I needed to select some elements between two fixed indexes the other day — like literally the second through fifth elements.
• Practical Use Cases for JavaScript’s closest() Method (Css Tricks)
  Let’s look at this HTML for instance: Click me That’s pretty straightforward, right?
• Don't Wait! Mock the API (Css Tricks)
  They are usually developed by separate teams, and keeping those teams and the technology in sync is not easy.
• Fluid Width Video (Css Tricks)
  IN A WORLD of responsive and fluid layouts on the web, ONE MEDIA TYPE stands in the way of perfect harmony: video.
• Settling down in a Jamstack world (Css Tricks)
  One of the things I like about Jamstack is that it's just a philosophy. It's not particularly prescriptive about how you go about it.
• Get Moving (or not) with CSS Motion Path (Css Tricks)
  We just linked up the idea that offset-path can be cleverly used to set type on a path.
• positionstack (Css Tricks)
  Maybe you need the latitude and longitude. positionstack is an API that does just that.
• Figma Crash Course | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  Figma is just blowing up, and for good reason. It’s good software aligned with what digital designers need.
• Jamstack News! (Css Tricks)
  I totally forgot that the Jamstack Conf was this week but thankfully they’ve already published the talks on the Jamstack YouTube channel.
• Show Image Under Text (with Acceptable Fallback) (Css Tricks)
  Updated April 2014 with more modern information.
• CSS Switch-Case Conditions (Css Tricks)
  CSS is yet to have a switch rule or conditional if, aside from the specific nature of @media queries and some deep trickery with CSS custom…
• How Building in the Open Can Change Our Industry (Css Tricks)
  I have to admit, I'm a developer who hasn't built a website. When I first read Chris's question, I sat in silence for at least a minute.
• Hexagons and Beyond: Flexible, Responsive Grid Patterns, Sans Media Queries (Css Tricks)
  A little while back, Chris shared this nice hexagonal grid. And true to its name, it’s using —wait for it — CSS Grid to form that layout.
• Weekly Platform News: Tracking via Web Storage, First Input Delay, Navigating by Headings (Css Tricks)
  In this week’s roundup, Safari takes on cross-site tracking, the delay between load and user interaction is greater on mobile, and a new su…
• Reactive jQuery for Spaghetti-fied Legacy Codebases (or When You Can’t Have Nice Things) (Css Tricks)
  I can hear you crying out now: “Why on Earth would you want to use jQuery when there are much better tools available?
• Creating Patterns With SVG Filters (Css Tricks)
  For years, my pain has been not being able to create a somewhat natural-looking pattern in CSS.
• Rough Notation (Css Tricks)
  It uses SVG to insert hand-drawn looking annotations to elements (probably text), like underlines and box highlights (there are 6 design op…
• Time for Next-Gen Codecs to Dethrone JPEG (Css Tricks)
  AVIF has been getting a lot of tech press, but Jon Sneyers is hot on JPEG XL (which makes sense as he’s the “chair of the JPEG XL ad hoc gr…
• Overflow And Data Loss In CSS | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  My brain thinks of it like packet loss on the way from the server to your browser, resulting in missing content in files.
• The Difference Between ID and Class (Css Tricks)
  We need ways to describe content in an HTML/XHTML document. The basic elements like h1, p, and ul will often do the job, but our basic set…
• Servers: Cool Once Again (Css Tricks)
  There were jokes coming back from the holiday break that JavaScript decided to go all server-side.
• Working with Attributes on DOM Elements (Css Tricks)
  The DOM is just a little weird about some things, and the way you deal with attributes is no exception.
• Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns (Css Tricks)
  Rather than these APIs being used for what they are meant for, they end up being used for gross ad tech.
• The Skinny on CSS Attribute Selectors (Css Tricks)
  CSS has the ability to target HTML elements based on any one of their attributes. You probably already know about classes and IDs.
• Loading and Using External Data in React (Css Tricks)
  I’ve been learning a bunch about React lately. It feels like a great way to write JavaScript.
• Using max() for an inner-element max-width (Css Tricks)
  I go into all this in The "Inside" Problem. The gist: you want an edge-to-edge container, but the content inside to have a limited width.