Category Archives: Original Content

Scroll-Linked Animations with CSS Scroll-Timeline (CSS Conf Colombia)

I just finished giving a lightning talk at the wonderful CSS Conf Colombia covering Scroll-Linked Animations with CSS @scroll-timeline. Really enjoyed giving a talk again after all this time, especially with this great vibe they have going on and the afterparty in gather.town (skribbl FTW!). You can find the slides embedded below: Source materials for …

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Three important things you should know about CSS :is()

Back in 2019 I shared how the CSS :is() selector will simplify things when writing CSS. What I didn’t know back then, and only have learnt quite recently, are these three important facts about CSS :is(): The selector list of :is() is forgiving The specificity of :is() is that of its most specific argument :is() …

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Control the behavior of JavaScript imports with Import Maps

Shipping in Chrome 89 are Import Maps, which allows control over what URLs get fetched when importing modules. Let’s take a look at this very welcome addition. When importing ES Modules (on the web), you need to refer to them using their full filenames or URLs: import moment from “/js/moment/moment.js”; import { partition } from …

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The Future of CSS: Scroll-Linked Animations with @scroll-timeline (Part 1)

The “Scroll-linked Animations Specification” is an upcoming addition to CSS that defines a way for creating animations that are linked to a scroll offset of a scroll container. Let’s take a look at how it works and what results we can achieve with it.

Style Spelling and Grammar Errors with the ::spelling-error and ::grammar-error pseudo-elements

Part of the CSS Pseudo-Elements Level 4 Specification are ways to style spelling and grammar errors. By default spelling errors — words you have mistyped — get a red dotted underline, thanks to the ::spelling-error pseudo-class selector you can tweak that. Grammar errors — such as a missing capital letter at the beginning of a …

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Style the target text from text-fragment links using the ::target-text pseudo-element

One of my favorite features that shipped with Chrome 80 — apart from Optional Chaining — is the ability to link to text-fragments. By default Chrome will highlight those in yellow: 💡 To easily create text-fragment links there’s this Chromium Plugin you can use. ~ As tweeted before, coming to Chromium 89 is the ability …

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Apache .htaccess disable access to site during Maintenance Mode / Deployment

Because I have to look this up from time to time, a note to myself: Add the contents below to your .htaccess to have Apache respond with a “Temporarily Unavailable” message in case a .maintenance file exists. — Handy during deploys RewriteEngine On # Show “Temporarily Unavailable” page if there’s a .maintenance file present RewriteCond …

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Apache .htaccess trim www. prefix from domain name

Because I have to look this up from time to time, a note to myself: Add the contents below to your .htaccess to have Apache trim the www. prefix from URLs while preserving the rest of the URL (domain name, querystring, etc). RewriteEngine On # Trim www prefix RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^ https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} …

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