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Style Pseudo-elements with Javascript Using Custom Properties

Over at CSS { In Real Life }, author Michelle Barker has detailed a clever way to style pseudo-elements (such as ::before and ::after) through JavaScript.

In Javascript we have a few ways of selecting elements, but we can’t directly target pseudo-elements. […] Luckily, CSS custom properties can help.

👉 If you set a custom property on the element that “owns” the pseudo-element the pseudo-element itself can pick it up, thus enabling a way to style it.

Quick Tip: Style Pseudo-elements with Javascript Using Custom Properties →

Debug/Inspect `z-index` stacking with the “CSS Stacking Context Inspector” DevTools extension

The Stacking Contexts Inspector is a DevTools extension for Google Chrome that allows you to analyse the stacking contexts available on a webpage. This extension will add a new panel to the DevTools and a new sidebar on the elements panel.

Handy for when you’re having stacking issues.

CSS Stacking Context Inspector →
Stacking Contexts Inspector →

☝️ If you’re running “Edgium”, you can use it’s built-in 3D View to visualize the stacking contexts.

Hat tip, Josh!

This Web Site is a Tech Talk

Great talk by Zach Leatherman as recorded at Smashing Conf Austin 2020:

The talk delves into Single Page Applications, Multi Page Applications, modern JavaScript Frameworks, and what I believe to be a better future for web development.

/me nods along for the entirety of this talk.

Powering his faux-live-coding slidedeck is Queue Code, a package to let you live code like he did in this talk.

This Web Site is a Tech Talk (incl. resources) →

The new native web: Bye bye animation libraries?

Talk by Ben Deitmer, as recorded at the latest Front-end Forward Meetup:

Traditionally most web animations are driven purely by javascript. The now widely supported Web Animations Api has potential to drastically decrease the javascript footprint and improve performance out of the box. Ben learns you how to implement this new api but also have a critical look at its limitations.

Integrate Custom Elements into Forms with `ElementInternals`

Over at CSS-Tricks, Caleb Williams digs into ElementInternals

The ElementInternals standard is a very exciting set of features with a very unassuming name. Among the features internals adds are the ability to participate in forms and an API around accessibility controls.

As you can see in the demo below his <rad-input> does exactly that.

See the Pen
Rad input with validation by Caleb Williams (@calebdwilliams)
on CodePen.

Creating Custom Form Controls with ElementInternals →

🤨 New to Web Components? John Rhea recently wrote two nice articles for CSS-Tricks covering the basics:

Thank God Not Everything Is Software

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How the Web Audio API is used for browser fingerprinting

When generating a browser identifier, we can read browser attributes directly or use attribute processing techniques first. One of the creative techniques that we’ll discuss today is audio fingerprinting.

Using an Oscillator and a Compressor they can basically calculate a specific number that identifies you.

Every browser we have on our testing laptops generate a different value. This value is very stable and remains the same in incognito mode.

And this only takes a few ms to calculate! 🤯

How the Web Audio API is used for browser fingerprinting →

CSS Logical Properties Are the Future of the Web & i18n

Linked below is yet another article urging one to use CSS Logical Properties. What caught my eye in this one is the fact that author Daniel Yuschick reworked his personal website to use them, as shown in this video below.

Impressive!

CSS Logical Properties Are the Future of the Web & I18N →