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Scott Jehl released a course called Web Components Demystified. This is my full set of notes from Scott's course. You'll still want to take the course on your own, and I encourage you to because Scott is an excellent teacher who makes all of this stuff extremely accessible, even to noobs like me.
The videos from Smashing Magazine's recent event on accessibility were just posted the other day. I was invited to host the panel discussion with the speakers, including a couple of personal heroes of mine, Stéphanie Walter and Sarah Fossheim. But I was just as stoked to meet Kardo Ayoub who shared his deeply personal story as a designer with a major visual impairment.
In this second article of a two-part series, Temani Afif demonstrates an alternative approach to creating the star rating component from the first article using experimental scroll-driven animations rather than using the border-image property.
In this article, you'll learn how to make a full-on star rating component out of nothing but a single input element and vanilla CSS.
My thesis for today's article offers further reassurance that inline conditionals are probably not the harbinger of the end of civilization: I reckon we can achieve the same functionality right now with style queries, which are gaining pretty good browser support.
A while back on CSS-Tricks, we shared several ways to draw hearts, and the response was dreamy. Now, to show my love, I wanted to do something personal, something crafty, something with a mild amount of effort.
Adam's such a mad scientist with CSS. He's been putting together a series of "notebooks" that make it easy for him to demo code. He's got one for gradient
We've been able to get the length of the viewport in CSS since... checks notes... 2013! Surprisingly, that was more than a decade ago. Getting the
Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file’s parent application to open a copy of it by default, ensuring that the original file remains unedited.
The steps for how I took the Baseline Status web component and made it into a WordPress block that can be used on any page of post.
Are partials the only thing keeping you writing CSS in Sass? With a little configuration, it's possible to compile partial CSS files without a Sass dependency. Ryan Trimble has the details.
Did you see the release notes for Chrome 133? It's currently in beta, but the Chrome team has been publishing a slew of new articles with pretty incredible demos that are tough to ignore. I figured I'd round those up in one place.
When using View Transitions you’ll notice the page becomes unresponsive to clicks while a View Transition is running. This happens because of
All of the things that the CSS Working Group would change if they had a time-traveling Delorean to go back and do things over.
The @view-transition at-rule has two descriptions. One is the commonly used navigation descriptor. The second is types, the lesser-known of the two, and one that probably envies how much attention navigation gets. But read on to learn why we need types and how it opens up new possibilities for custom view transitions when navigating between pages.
I was reading through Juan's recent Almanac entry for the @counter-style at-rule and I'll be darned if he didn't uncover and unpack some extremely interesting
Anchor positioning can be great for little interactive effects — as Temani Afif shows off with this clever idea for a menu hover.
I wrote a post for Smashing Magazine that was published today about this thing that Chrome and Safari have called "Tight Mode" and how it impacts page
I am still an AI skeptic. The biggest risk I foresee is that if your sole responsibility is to write code, your job is at risk. It’s not time to panic, but I do see a lot of value in evolving your soft skills.
2024 has been one of the greatest years for CSS: cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, anchor positioning, animate to height: auto, and
The CSSWG met to try and finally squash a debate that has been going on for five years: whether Masonry should be a part of Grid or a separate system. We've got coverage of both presentations for ya.
I had the pleasure of hosting a recent Smashing Magazine workshop on product design, subbing for Vitaly Friedman who usually runs these things.
As awesome as I think it is, CSS Anchor Positioning has a lot of quirks, some of which are the product of its novelty and others due to its unique way of working. Today, I want to bring you yet another Anchor Positioning quirk that has bugged me since I first saw it.
Anselm Hannemann on the intersection between frameworks and learning the basics:
What's it look like to create a dashboard within the WordPress admin for analyzing Google Analytics data across 900 blogs across 25 multisite instances? It involves designing a user-friendly interface, leveraging the WordPress REST API, implementing a plugin for data retrieval, and addressing challenges like rate limits and authentication.
Donut scoping addresses the challenge of preventing parent styles from leaking to nested content. Originating from a 2011 concept by Nicole Sullivan, the issue has evolved, culminating in 2024's @scope at-rule. This allows for more precise CSS styling, safeguarding content from unwanted inheritance while managing global CSS complexities.
Web browsers are experimenting with two HTML attributes — technically, they’re called “invoker commands” — that are designed to invoke popovers, dialogs, and further down the line, all kinds of actions without writing JavaScript. Although, if you do reach for JavaScript, the new attributes come with some new events that we can listen for.
Do you subscribe to Piccalilli? You should. If you're reading that name for the first time, that would be none other than Andy Bell running the ship and he's reimagined the site from the ground-up after coming out of hibernation this year. You're likely familiar with Andy's great writing here on CSS-Tricks.
You've played Flexbox Froggy before, right? Or maybe Grid Garden? They're both absolute musts for learning the basics of modern CSS layout using Flexbox and CSS Grid. Thomas Park made those and he's back with another game: Anchoreum.
Another title from A Book Apart has been re-released for free. The latest? Tim Brown's Flexible Typesetting. I may not be the utmost expert on typography and its best practices but I do remember reading this book (it's still on the shelf next to me!) thinking maybe, just maybe, I might be able to hold a conversation about it with Robin when I finished it.
The results from this year's survey are fairly fresh off the presses. We took a little time to sit with them and jot down some things we noticed and found interesting.
What are tooltips, exactly? There's two kinds and the one you use has implications on the user experience, as Zell illustrates in this explainer on best practices.
The CSS text-wrap property is (rightfully) widely assumed to be used strictly for text elements. But Terrence Eden posted an article on his blog that shows how it can also be used to balance the way other types of elements wrap, including icons.
Pop quiz! What's the difference between a Popover element and a Dialog element? The answer is not all that clear and is widely misunderstood, but Zell has a clear way to explain it so that you know which element to reach for in your work.
Change can certainly be scary whenever a beloved, independent software library becomes a part of a larger organization. I'm feeling a bit more excitement than
I totally get the goal here: make CSS more modular and scalable in WordPress. Put all your global WordPress theme styles in a single file, including
More times than I can count, while writing, I get myself into random but interesting topics with little relation to the original post. In the end, I have to
Editor's note: This post is updated from time to time to catch up with notable developments. For timely updates, check out mullenweg.wtf or the less-anti-Matt
Miriam Suzanne's in the middle of a redesign of her personal website. It began in August 2022. She's made an entire series out of the work that's worth your
I was looking over an older article Patrick Brosset penned for us introducing <selectmenu>, a new proposal at the time for a more style-able cousin
For the past two months, all my livelihood has gone towards reading, researching, understanding, writing, and editing about Anchor Positioning, and with many
Seeing a lot more headlines decrying JavaScript and pumping up PHP. Always interesting to see which direction the front-end zeitgeist is leaning.
I'm working on a refresh of my personal website, what I'm calling the HD remaster. Well, I wouldn't call it a "full" redesign. I'm just cleaning things up,
Only Chris, right? You'll want to view this in a Chromium browser:
The text-box-trim and text-box-edge properties in CSS enable developers to trim specifiable amounts of the whitespace that appear above the
I collect a bunch of links in a bookmarks folder. These are things I fully intend to read, and I do — eventually. It's a good thing bookmarks are digital,
I am thrilled to say, that from this week onwards, the CSS-Tricks Almanac has an entry for each property, function, and at-rule related to the new Anchor
Jim hit a snag while working on a form. Placing labels next to inputs is trivial with flexbox, sure, but what happened in Jim's case was a bit of
Quite a fun article I worked on with Philip Braunen. Do you know that little bit of elasticity you get when scrolling beyond the viewport when browsing the
Seems like we're always talking about clipping text around here. All it takes is a little browsing to spot a bunch of things we've already explored.
Didya see that Tumblr is getting a WordPress makeover? And it's not a trivial move:
I think it's worth listening to anything Sara Soueidan has to say. That's especially true if she's speaking at an event for the first time in four years,
I created a little library at work to make those “skeleton screens” that I’m not sure anyone likes. We named it skellyCSS because… skeletons and
AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is a modern image file format specification for storing images that offer a much more significant file reduction when compared to
Eric gifting us with his research on all the various things that anchors (not links) do when they are in :focus.
A gem from Chris Ferdinandi that details how to use custom events to hook into Web Components. More importantly, Chris dutifully explains why custom events
You ever find yourself in bumper-to-bumper traffic? I did this morning on the way to work (read: whatever cafe I fancy). There's a pattern to it, right? Stop,
A client asked if we could mimic the "rubber band" scrolling behavior on many mobile devices. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. It’s a behavior that
A couple of weeks ago I was super excited about publishing my first CSS-Tricks post: "Letter Spacing is Broken. Forget about that though, what's important is
Every programming language has loops. Loops perform an operation (i.e., a chunk of work) a number of times, usually once for every item in an array or list,
