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• 4 CSS Grid Properties (and One Value) for Most of Your Layout Needs (Css Tricks)
  CSS Grid provides us with a powerful layout system for websites.
• Lessons Learned from a Year of Testing the Web Platform (Css Tricks)
  Mike Pennisi: The web-platform-tests project is a massive suite of tests (over one million in total) which verify that software (mostly web…
• Setting up and Customizing the Ant Design System in a Nuxt App (Css Tricks)
  I don’t typically work with UI libraries because they can be cumbersome and hard to override, which can contribute to a bloated.
• Fast Static Sites with Netlify and AnyMod (Css Tricks)
  In about 10 minutes, we'll set up a workflow that makes static sites dead simple.
• Whack-a-Mole: The CSS Edition (Css Tricks)
  We’ve seen the checkbox hack and how it can be used to build a complete state machine in CSS.
• Let's Say You Were Going to Write a Blog Post About Dark Mode (Css Tricks)
  This is not a knock any other blog posts out there about Dark Mode. There are lots of good ones, and I’m a fan of any information-sharing b…
• Approaches for a CSS Masonry Layout (Css Tricks)
  Masonry layout, on the web, is when items of an uneven size are laid out such that there aren't uneven gaps.
• The Debate Around "Do We Even Need CSS Anymore?" (Css Tricks)
  This has become quite the hot topic lately. It's been talked about at a number of conferences and meetups I've been at personally lately.
• The WordPress.com Business Plan is way more powerful than you think (Css Tricks)
  WordPress.com is where you go to use WordPress that is completely hosted for you. You don't have to worry about anything but building your…
• Modifying Specific Letters with CSS and JavaScript (Css Tricks)
  Changing specific characters can be a challenge in CSS.
• Oh Hey, Padding Percentage is Based on the Parent Element's Width (Css Tricks)
  I learned something about percentage-based (%) padding today that I had totally wrong in my head!
• Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  The bombshell article of the week is from Alex Russell of Google/Chrome.
• Front-End Challenges (Css Tricks)
  My favorite way to level up as a front-end developer is to do the work. If you can do it for money, great, you should.
• Weekly Platform News: Upgrading Navigations to HTTPS, Sale of .org Domains, New Browser Engine (Css Tricks)
  In this week's roundup: DuckDuckGo gets smarter encryption, a fight over the sale of dot org domains, and a new browser engine is in the wo…
• Fast Software (Css Tricks)
  There have been some wonderfully interconnected things about fast software lately.
• Should I Use Source Maps in Production? (Css Tricks)
  A “source map” is a special file that connects a minified/uglified version of an asset (CSS or Java Script) to the original authored versio…
• A “new direction” in the struggle against rightward scrolling (Css Tricks)
  You know those times you get a horizontal scrollbar when accidentally placing an element off the right edge of the browser window?
• SVGBOX | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  I've been saying for years that a pretty good icon system is just dropping in icons with inline where you need them.
• Why npm Scripts? (Css Tricks)
  There has been a growing sentiment (for instance) that using node packages directly, with the command line interfaces they provide, is a go…
• Drag and Drop File Uploading (Css Tricks)
  I work on an RSS reader app called Readerrr (editor's note: link removed as site seems dead).
• Make a smooth shadow, friend. (Css Tricks)
  One box-shadow is cool and all, but check out Philipp Brumm’s tool for building out comma-separated multiple box-shadows, which result in a…
• Long Hover | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  I had a very embarrassing CSS moment the other day.
• Datalist is for suggesting values without enforcing values (Css Tricks)
  There are lots of different input types (and modes!), and picking the right one is a great idea.
• The Origin Story of Container Queries (Css Tricks)
  Container queries don’t exist today but a lot of web developers have been arguing in their favor lately.
• First Steps into a Possible CSS Masonry Layout (Css Tricks)
  It’s not at the level of demand as, say, container queries, but being able to make “masonry” layouts in CSS has been a big ask for CSS deve…
• Building a Progress Ring, Quickly (Css Tricks)
  On some particularly heavy sites, the user needs to see a visual cue temporarily to indicate that resources and assets are still loading be…
• Need to scroll to the top of the page? (Css Tricks)
  Perhaps the easiest way to offer that to the user is a link that targets an ID on the element.
• The Trickery it Takes to Create eBook-Like Text Columns (Css Tricks)
  There's some interesting CSS trickery in Jason Pamental's latest Web Fonts & Typography News.
• Creating a Modal Image Gallery With Bootstrap Components (Css Tricks)
  I mention Bootstrap because I want to use it to make the same sort of thing. So, let’s call it a modal from here on out.
• Everything You Need to Know About FLIP Animations in React (Css Tricks)
  With a very recent Safari update, Web Animations API (WAAPI) is now supported without a flag in all modern browsers (except IE).
• Designing calculator apps (Css Tricks)
  It is extremely weird that the calculator apps, even the default ones baked into desktop operating systems, embrace the UI and UX of those…
• Recreating the CodePen Gutenberg Embed Block for Sanity.io | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  Learn how to create a custom CodePen block with a preview for Sanity Studio, inspired by Chris Coyier’s implementation for Wordpress’ Guten…
• David Walsh on Redesigning with Sass (Css Tricks)
  A guest post by David Walsh who writes about his experience as a first time Sass user redesigning his own website with it.
• Things You Can Do With CSS Today | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  Some nice coverage from Andy about CSS things that are truly new.
• Sticky Table of Contents with Scrolling Active States (Css Tricks)
  Say it has a lot of content, with sections that requires scrolling.
• Fixing Smooth Scrolling with Find-on-Page (Css Tricks)
  Back when we released the v17 design (we're on v18 now) of this site. I added html { scroll-behavior: smooth; } to the CSS.
• Styling Code In and Out of Blocks (Css Tricks)
  I literally just used it to wrap that tag in the previous sentence — so meta.
• Sass vs. Less | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  "Which CSS preprocessor language should I choose?" is a hot topic lately.
• AVIF has landed (Css Tricks)
  Everybody is talking about AVIF today because of Jake's blog post. As the say, I was today years old when I learned AVIF was a thing.
• Social Cards as a Service (Css Tricks)
  I love the idea of programmatically generated images.
• Why I love Tailwind (Css Tricks)
  Max Stoiber wrote some interesting notes about why he loves Tailwind. (Max created styled-components, so he has some skin in the styling me…
• Adding CSS to a Page via HTTP Headers (Css Tricks)
  Only Firefox supports it, but if you return a request with a header like this: Header add Link ";rel=stylesheet;media=all" …that will link…
• The Thought Process Behind a Flexbox Layout (Css Tricks)
  I just need to put two boxes side-by-side and I hear flexbox is good at stuff like that.
• Simplicity | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  Earlier this week, Bastian Allgeier published some interesting thoughts about complexity in web development and how changing simple things…
• How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written (Css Tricks)
  Interesting research from Dan Luu¹: … it’s pretty common for my personal blog to get more traffic than the entire corp eng blog for a compa…
• How to Create a Shrinking Header on Scroll Without JavaScript (Css Tricks)
  Imagine a header of a website that is nice and thick, with plenty of padding on top and bottom of the content.
• Become a Front-End Master in 2020 With These 10 Project Ideas (Css Tricks)
  This is a little updated cross-post from a quickie article I wrote on DEV. I'm publishing here 'cuz I'm all IndieWeb like that.
• 2021 Design Systems (Survey/Courses) | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)
  My friends at Sparkbox are doing a survey on design systems, as they do each year.
• Just Sharing My Gulpfile (Css Tricks)
  Seemingly out of the blue, the Gulp processing I had set up for this site started to have a race condition.
• Creating a Gauge in React (Css Tricks)
  You should really look at everything Amelia does, but I get extra excited about her interactive blog posts.