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These are a few great links about typography that have been burning a hole in my saved bookmarks folder that I'm just now getting around to sharing. There's good stuff in there, from how to choose typefaces for app design to ideas for how to fix the concept of font sizing in CSS.
Here's a dilemma: what happens if your WooCommerce site has a problem and the quickest and best way to fix it is to roll back to a previous version? The
I was just chatting with Eric Meyer the other day and I remembered an Eric Meyer story from my formative years. I wrote a blog post about CSS specificity, and
A bona fide CSS trick from Kirupa Chinnathambi here. To match a colored shadow with the colors in the background-image of an element, you inherit the
I hope people think of SVG as a vector format that is good for drawing things. There is plenty more to know, but here's one more: SVG is good for composition.
Yay, it's here! Safari 14.1 reportedly adds support for the gap property in flexbox layouts. We've had grid-gap support for some time, but true to its name,
Jim Nielsen quoting Eric Bailey:
Raygun is an error and performance monitoring software for websites and mobile apps. In the case of websites, you install their JavaScript snippet onto your
Lists—we’ve all worked with them in one form or another. I’m talking about HTML’s <ol> and <ul>. Much of the time, because we desire styling
Update! The color-contrast() function has been renamed to contrast-color(). See this article to get more recent information and use cases.
There are some Unicode characters that some browsers just decide they are going to turn into emojis for you. I couldn't tell you why exactly, but here's what
Here's Jess B. Peck writing all about Google's Core Web Vitals:
Not a typical one, at least. Each character is an HTML element, built with CSS. A true web font!
It would be nice to be able to animate the transition between pages if we want to on the web without resorting to hacks or full-blown architecture choices to
Page Laubheimer says that if you're going to do a sticky header...
Let’s say someone asks you to add a double border to some random geometric SVG shapes. For some reason, you can’t use any graphic editor — they need to be
Container queries are finally here! Now available behind a flag in the latest version of Chrome Canary, you can go ahead and experiment to your heart’s
The way we style text hasn’t changed much over the years. There have been numerous advancements to help make things more flexible, like layouts, but in terms
There is no doubt that CSS plays a huge role in web performance. Milica Mihajlija puts a point on exactly why:
The title of this article is misleading. It’s not actually very important for an Engineering Manager to use career laddering, per se, or my process. It is,
A bunch of new developer tools have landed in the past year and they are biting at the heels of the tools that have dominated front-end development over the
I didn't know this was a thing until Stefan Judis's post:
I'm going to try to show you some things I think are useful and important about axe™ DevTools and use as few words as possible.
You've seen the iconic image. Perhaps some of what makes that image so iconic is that people see what they want to see in it. If you see it as a critique of
This post is an introduction to XState as it might be used in a Svelte project. XState is unique in the JavaScript ecosystem. It won’t keep your DOM synced
Rich Harris:
"Good news about display: contents and Chrome" — Rachel Andrew notes that the accessibility danger of using display: contents; is fixed in Chrome. The problem
It's certainly worth noting that the Space Jam website, which made its way into umpteen conference talks for being fabulous evidence of the web's strength in
At first, there were flexboxes (the children of a display: flex container). If you wanted them to be visually separate, you had to use content justification
Ten years! That's a huge milestone for a project, especially one that had a pretty simple goal in mind from the start: give self-hosted WordPress sites many
It is extremely weird that the calculator apps, even the default ones baked into desktop operating systems, embrace the UI and UX of those little cheap-o
Here’s a fabulous post by Vitaly Friedman that looks at how to make accessible front-end components and what problems there are today when it comes to
I would hope all our web designer/developer spidey senses trigger when the solution to an accessibility problem isn't "fix the issue" but rather "add extra
This literal tech talk (YouTube video embedded in there) by Zach Leatherman is a good time. The talk is sprinkled with fun trickery, so I'm just taking notes
Dave and I launched a Patreon for ShopTalk Show. You get two completely priceless things for backing us:
David Bushell in ”Changing CSS for Good“:
There is a lot of hype on the :is() pseudo-selector lately, probably because now that Safari 14 has it, it's supported across all the major browsers. You've
React is actually a bit of an outlier with state management. While it has first-class tools like useState and Context, you're more own your own for reactive
This blog post by Steve Fenton came across my feeds the other day. I'd never heard of HERE maps before, but apparently they are embeddable somehow, like
I love it when standards evolve from something that a bunch of developers are already doing, and making it easier and foolproof. Kitty Giraudel is onto that
Geoff shared this idea of a checkerboard where the tiles disappear one-by-one to reveal an image. In it, an element has a background image, then a CSS Grid
In "What the heck, z-index??," Josh Comeau makes the analogy of layer groups in design software like Photoshop or Figma to stacking contexts in CSS. If you've
Hey, look at that, An Event Apart is back with a new event taking place online from April 19-21. That's three jam-packed days of absolute gems from a stellar
Up until 2020, blend modes were a feature I hadn't used much because I rarely ever had any idea what result they could produce without giving them a try
In this week’s round-up, prefers-contrast lands in Safari, MathML gets some attention, :is() is actually quite forgiving, more ADA-related lawsuits,
The JS Party podcast sometimes hosts game shows. One of them is Jeopardy-esque, called JS Danger, and some of us here from CSS-Tricks got to be the guests
For years, my pain has been not being able to create a somewhat natural-looking pattern in CSS. I mean, sometimes all I need is a wood texture. The only
Let’s spin up a basic Svelte site and integrate Tailwind into it for styling. One advantage of working with Tailwind is that there isn’t any context switching
Looks like 2021 is the time to start using CSS Logical Properties! Plus, Chrome recently shipped a few APIs that have raised eyebrows, SVG allows us to
It was the year 1994 that the web came out of the shadow of academia and onto the everyone’s screens. In particular, it was the second half of the second week
If you have a table of contents on a long-scrolling page, thanks to, say, position: fixed; or position: sticky;, the IntersectionObserver API in JavaScript is
Are you a beginner coder trying to implement to launch your MVP? I've just finished my MVP of ReviewBolt.com, a competitor analysis tool. And it's built using
The block editor was a game-changer for WordPress. The idea that we can create blocks of content and arrange them in a component-like fashion means we have a
Recently, I had to make a web page displaying a bunch of SVG graphs for an analytics dashboard. I used a bunch of <rect>, <line> and <text>
Richard MacManus explaining Daniel Kehoe's approach to building websites, which he calls "Stackless":
AutomateWoo is this handy extension for WooCommerce that adds triggers actions based on your online store's activity. Someone abandoned their cart? Remind
This article is going to help you, dear front-end developer, understand all that is Firebase. We’re going to cover lots of details about what Firebase is, why
In this week's news, Chrome tackles focus rings, we learn how to get "donut" scope, Global Privacy Control gets big-name adoption, it's time to ditch pixels
Let’s look at how to get the user’s mouse position and map it into CSS custom properties: --positionX and --positionY.
Every letter in this "font" by Davor Suljic is a single div and drawn only with border. That means employing some trickery like border-radius with exotic
