A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Ahmad recently encountered an issue where a CSS Grid column grew too large: .wrapper { display: grid; grid-template-columns: [main] 1fr [aside] 16em; grid-gap: 2em; } The main column has a 1fr value. That means it will take the available space minus the sidebar and the gap. However, the minimum content size of a grid item …
Ooh I like this demo, making clever use of position: sticky;: See the Pen Sticky Photostack by Bennett Feely (@bennettfeely) on CodePen. There’s also some clever sizing going on in there to create the whitespace around the images, avoiding the need for a wrapper div per photo. img { width: 100vmin; height: 100vmin; transform: scale(0.6) …
Louis Hoebregts walks us through how they rendered a 3D globe on a 2D canvas. Because as all the following animation steps were plain 2D, I couldn’t use a 3D renderer such as Three.js. And so I had to figure out how to render a 3D shape using only the Canvas 2D API. In this …
One of the new (experimental) additions to the Chrome 89 DevTools is the Puppeteer Recorder: DevTools can now generate Puppeteer scripts based on your interaction with the browser, making it easier for you to automate browser testing. Simply start a new recording and as you click around you’ll see Puppeteer code being generated. Stefan Judis …
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<ruby> element
Looking for a way to implement footnotes in HTML, Thomas Steiner experimented with using the <ruby> element. The MDN docs describe the ruby element as follows. “The HTML <ruby> element represents small annotations that are rendered above, below, or next to base text, usually used for showing the pronunciation of East Asian characters. It can …
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Interesting real-world case-study over at Smashing Magazine: In this article, we’ll take a close look at some of the changes we made on this very site — running on JAMStack with React — to optimize the web performance and improve the Core Web Vitals metrics. With some of the mistakes we’ve made, and some of …
Nice demo by Jhey: See the Pen 3D CSS Birthday Card (Tap to open! 👇) by Jhey (@jh3y) on CodePen. Contains a little bit of JavaScript to make the card respond your mouse movement and to play the audio. The opening/closing of the card and the confetti are done using only CSS.
Mads Stoumann, writing for CSS-Tricks, starts off with a simple idea: set a Custom Property to either playing or paused to control animation-play-state. [data-animation] { /* … */ animation-play-state: var(–animps, running); } /* Use a checkbox to pause animations */ [data-animation-pause]:checked ~ [data-animation] { –animps: paused; } But one of the listed use cases is …
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clip-path
Ahmad Shadeed is at it again, this time covering CSS clip-path. In this article, I aim to provide you with a clear explanation of how clip-path works in detail when to use it, and how you can use it today in your web development projects. Are you ready? Let’s dive in. As per usual: tons …