Creating a slidedeck with CSS is not really that difficult. Stack all slides on top of each other, and then make good use of the :target pseudo-class selector: We adjust the z-index for the active slide to be higher than all the other inactive slides with our trusty :target selector. section { height: 100vh; width: […]
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Breaking Elements out of Their Containers in CSS with .full-bleed
About two years ago I wrote a post on How to Break Elements out of Their Containers in CSS so that they are “full bleed”. Whilst the method which uses CSS Grid still is accurate and works really well (I use it “in production”), the “old” method I used (in case of situations where one […]
Displaying the (Numeric) Value of CSS Custom Properties (CSS Variables) inside Generated Content
Nice hack by Cassie: she uses counter-reset as a temporary storage space so that the value of a CSS Variable it can be used inside generated content (e.g. with the content property). I was trying to display the numeric value stored in a CSS variable inside generated content…Turns out you can't do that.But you can […]
Controlling Hyphenation in CSS
Richard has done a nice writeup on hyphenation in CSS. Turns out we have some nice controls to tweaking how hyphenation on your site works: There is more to setting hyphenation than just turning on the hyphens. The CSS Text Module Level 4 has introduced the same kind of hyphenation controls provided in layout software […]
The future of CSS: Nesting Selectors
Early March the first draft for the CSS Nesting Module was published. The draft outlines a future mechanism by which we’ll be able to nest CSS selectors natively (e.g. in pure CSS, without the use of any preprocessors) This module describes support for nesting a style rule within another style rule, allowing the inner rule’s […]
CSS Grid: Floor Plan
Another CSS Grid Layout by Olivia NG. Be sure to check more CSS Grid Layouts in her CSS Grid Experiments collection on CodePen. Some nce CSS Grid: Floor Plan →CSS Grid Experiments Collection →
Combining position: sticky; with overflow: scroll;
Figure: position: sticky; and overflow: scroll;, a quirky combination … but it can be fixed! Dannie Vinther: Say we want an overflowing table of columns and rows with sticky headings on a page. We want the headings to stick while scrolling on the document window, and we want to be able to scroll horizontally within […]
CSS Grid: Excel Spreadsheet
Worth a peek, to see how it’s built. I like how the .cells__number cells are locked to the first column, independent of their order in the source code: grid-column: 1 / span 1; CSS Grid: Excel Spreadsheet →
Multilingual Sites: Styling translated text
Ire Aderinokun on why you should use the :lang pseudo-class over the lang attribute selector (e.g. [lang]) for language-specific styles: The problem with having language-specific styles based on the [lang] attribute selector is that the selector isn’t actually aware of the language of the element. It’s just like any other “dumb” attribute selector. This can […]
The Flexbox Holy Albatross
Great work by Heydon Pickering, in which he lets a flexbox layout respond to the size of its container, and not the viewport Sometimes you want your items to wrap in a very particular way. For instance, when you have three items, you’ll be happy with the three-abreast layout and accepting of the single-column configuration. […]