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In Table of Contents with IntersectionObserver on CSS-Tricks, Chris Coyier talks about sticky table of contents on long pages whose active state updates as you scroll. When talking about those, you can not not mention the wonderful Progress Nav by Hakim El Hattab. Final version of the progress nav! Switched to SVG and made it …
In this episode of GUI Challenges, Adam Argyle builds a Settings Component with sliders and checkboxes. In this post I want to share thinking on building a Settings component for the web that is responsive, supports multiple device inputs, and works across browsers. Tons of CSS-knowledge in there: CSS Nesting CSS Grid Custom Properties for …
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Over at the Cloud Four blog, Paul Hebert digs into HSL colors Colors on the web are confusing — but they don’t have to be! The HSL format makes it easy for humans and computers to work with color. Included are some nice CodePen-hosted Color Pickers, such as this one: See the Pen HSLA Color …
Whenever I write a Twitter Thread I carefully lay out my planned tweets in advance in a text editor. After manually adjusting my sentences to have tweetable parts, I tweet them out one by one. Quite a cumbersome work, where ThreadStart can do the heavy lifting for me instead: Creating a Twitter thread without guidance …
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React Flow is a library for building node-based graphs. You can easily implement custom node types and it comes with components like a mini-map and graph controls. React Flow →
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Good reminder by Georgi Nikoloff to have one (visually hidden) SVG that contains several layers, which you can then include further down in your code. SVG has a <defs> tag that lets us declare something like our graph footer just once and then simply reference it — using <use> — from anywhere on the page …
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In this post Sven Luijten uses DNSControl from within GitHub Actions to manage DNS: What if you could edit a JavaScript file with your desired DNS configuration, submit a pull request on GitHub, see a preview of the changes you are about to make, and when you merge it, have those changes be applied completely …
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Over at web.dev, Katie Hempenius learns us how to identify and fix layout shifts using the Layout Instability API and the DevTools. What I take away from this is that you can easily spot them using DevTools: In the Rendering Panel you can enable an option to highlight areas of Layout Shift: To enable Layout …