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- A CSS-only, animated, wrapping underline (Css Tricks)Nicky Meuleman, inspired by Cassie Evans, details how they built the anchor link hover on their sites.
- Removing that ugly :focus ring (and keeping it too) (Css Tricks)David Gilbertson: Removing the focus outline is like removing the wheelchair ramp from a school because it doesn’t fit in with the aestheti…
- Let's Make One of Those Fancy Scrolling Animations Used on Apple Product Pages (Css Tricks)Apple is well-known for the sleek animations on their product pages.
- POW | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)As a connoisseur of web trickery, this is a must share: POW stands for Packaged Offline/online Webpage.
- Pseudo-elements in the Web Animations API (Css Tricks)el.animate()) you need a reference to a DOM element to target.
- Strategies for Staying on Top of Web Performance (Css Tricks)Step one is caring about the performance of your websites. Step two is doing things to make it better.
- A Proof of Concept for Making Sass Faster (Css Tricks)At the start of a new project, Sass compilation happens in the blink of an eye.
- Let's Take a Deep Dive Into the CSS Contain Property (Css Tricks)Compared to the past, modern browsers have become really efficient at rendering the tangled web of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code a typical…
- RewardJS | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)A site to incentivize helping out on open source Java Script projects. Every single day there is a prize that someone earns through sheer n…
- Web Performance Checklist (Css Tricks)The other day, I realized that web performance is an enormous topic covering so very much — from minimizing assets to using certain file fo…
- Em-based media queries are based on... | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)(drumroll please) Stephanie Rewis (off a lead from Susan Robertson): the em base in media queries comes from the user’s setting (which is t…
- iframe feedback (Css Tricks)What if an had within it another of the exact same source?
- Edge Everything (Css Tricks)Thanks for reading and a big special thanks to all the authors this year who shared something they have learned.
- Add Beautiful Images with the Unsplash API (Css Tricks)I’d wager it’s the most popular stock photography site out there for two big reasons: - Every photo on there is pretty darn nice - Every ph…
- The Case of the Stolen Domain Names (Css Tricks)Back in 2011, the domain name for this site, css-tricks.com, was stolen.
- SVG Title vs. HTML Title Attribute (Css Tricks)I can do this: I'm a div with a `title` And now if I’m on a device with a mouse pointer and hover the cursor over that element, I get… Whic…
- CSS Architecture for Modern JavaScript Applications | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)There is a lot to like from Mike Riethmuller here: - The title. When you’re building a website from Java Script-powered components anyway,…
- That's Just How I Scroll (Css Tricks)How do you know a page (or any element on that page) scrolls? Well, if it has a scrollbar, that's a pretty good indication.
- 25 Years of JavaScript & 25 Free Courses (Css Tricks)Pluralsight is giving away 25 courses on JavaScript for free to celebrate JavaScript's 25th birthday.
- How to create a client-serverless Jamstack app using Netlify, Gatsby and Fauna (Css Tricks)The Jamstack is a modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup.
- Repeatable, Staggered Animation Three Ways: Sass, GSAP and Web Animations API (Css Tricks)Staggered animation, also known as “follow through” or “overlapping action” is one of the twelve Disney principles of animation as defined…
- The Power of Lampshading | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)By calling it out, it avoids criticism by demonstrating the self-awareness. Higher-ups need to call out anything they don’t understand beca…
- GIFS and prefers-reduced-motion (Css Tricks)The element has a trick it can do where it shows different image formats in different situations.
- imba | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)It's not every day you see a new processor for building websites that reinvents the syntax for HTML and CSS and JavaScript.
- How to Create a Realistic Motion Blur with CSS Transitions (Css Tricks)Before we delve into making a realistic motion blur in CSS, it’s worth doing a quick dive into what motion blur is, so we can have a better…
- Static or Not? (Css Tricks)A quick opinion piece by Kev Quirk: Why I Don’t Use A Static Site Generator.
- Let's Make a Fancy, but Uncomplicated Page Loader (Css Tricks)It’s pretty common to see a loading state on sites these days, particularly as progressive web apps and reactive sites are on the rise.
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Learning JavaScript (Css Tricks)Around this time last year, I wrote an article about the JavaScript learning landscape.
- Product Search and Filters Are a Snap With WooCommerce (Css Tricks)Let’s say you visit an e-commerce site because you want to buy the latest banana peeler model.
- Things to Watch Out for When Working with CSS 3D (Css Tricks)I began playing with CSS 3D transforms as soon as I noticed support in CSS was getting decent.
- Wide Gamut Color in CSS with Display-P3 (Css Tricks)Here’s something I’d never heard of before: Display-P3 support in CSS Color Module Level 4 spec.
- The Hooks of React Router (Css Tricks)React Router 5 embraces the power of hooks and has introduced four different hooks to help with routing.
- Styling Layout Wrappers In CSS (Css Tricks)Two things that strike me often about the web are how many ways there are to go about the same thing and how many considerations go into ev…
- Building a Full-Stack Geo-Distributed Serverless App with Macrometa, GatsbyJS, & GitHub Pages (Css Tricks)All of the app’s static bits (HTML, CSS, JS, & Media) will be hosted and globally distributed via the Git Hub Pages CDN (Content Delivery N…
- How to Modify Nodes in an Abstract Syntax Tree (Css Tricks)One of the more powerful concepts I've stumbled across recently is the idea of abstract syntax trees, or ASTs.
- SVG Favicons in Action (Css Tricks)If you are a regular reader of CSS-Tricks, you probably have.
- Space Jam | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)It’s certainly worth noting that the Space Jam website, which made its way into umpteen conference talks for being fabulous evidence of the…
- Efficiently Rendering CSS (Css Tricks)I admittedly don't think about this idea very often... how efficient is the CSS that we write, in terms of how quickly the browser can rend…
- Dynamic, Conditional Imports (Css Tricks)With ES Modules, you can natively import other JavaScript.
- Core Web Vital Tooling (Css Tricks)I still think the Google-devised Core Web Vitals are smart. When I first got into caring about performance, it was all: reduce requests!
- Click Once, Select All; Click Again, Select Normally | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)- Force all the content of an element to be selected when clicked with user-select: all; - If you click a second time, let the user select…
- (Jay Freestone's) Front-end predictions for 2021 (Css Tricks)React framework maturity, early container queries, WASM adoption, and monoliths. Not feeling like a particularly front-end-y?
- A Bashful Button Worth $8 Million | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)Most of us grumble when running across a frustrating UX experience online (like not being able to complete a transaction because of a mispl…
- CSS4 | CSS-Tricks (Css Tricks)I hate to break it to you, but not really. CSS3 was successful, so why not keep that train rolling like they do in JavaScript?
- What is the Value of Browser Diversity? (Css Tricks)In 2018, Rachel Nabors made the point that browser diversity is similar to biological ecosystem diversity.
- Dynamic Page / Replacing Content (Css Tricks)Let’s say you wanted to make a website where clicking buttons in the nav would dynamically load some content.
- Weekly Platform News: Event Timing, Google Earth for Web, undead session cookies (Css Tricks)In this week's news, Wikipedia helps identify three slow click handlers, Google Earth comes to the web, SVG properties in CSS get more supp…
- Some Hands-On with the HTML Dialog Element (Css Tricks)This is me looking at the HTML element for the first time. I've been aware of it for a while, but haven't taken it for a spin yet.
- Using rel=”preconnect” to establish network connections early and increase performance (Css Tricks)Adding rel=preconnect to a informs the browser that your page intends to establish a connection to another domain, and that you’d like the…
- The Best Color Functions in CSS? (Css Tricks)I've said before that HSL is the best color format we have. Most of us aren't like David DeSandro, who can read hex codes.