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How CSS’s display: contents; works
You might know that display: contents; does what it states it does: it only shows an element’s contents, just as if you were to remove the opening and closing tag. But what about the element’s attributes? What about the bound … Continue reading
Working with Houdini’s new CSS Typed Object Model (Typed OM)
Chrome 66 will add support for Houdini’s Typed OM. Eric Bidelman from Google has documented how we can use this. CSS now has a proper object-based API for working with values in JavaScript. The days of concatenating strings and subtle … Continue reading
Subsetting web fonts with glyphhanger
glyphhanger is a great tool to work with web fonts, developed by the folks at Filament Group. It serves two goals: It shows what unicode-ranges are used on a web page: # local and remote URLs $ glyphhanger ./test.html $ … Continue reading
Using @supports to detect if a browser supports CSS Variables
As tweeted by Ire Aderinokun: @supports (color: var(–)) { /* has support */ } Not too surprising if you’ve used Feature Queries before, but what does surprise me is that you can make it work by only passing the prefix … Continue reading
Geometric cover replication with CSS Grid, clip-path, and writing-mode
This one was fun dissecting: Geometric cover replication with CSS Grid, clip-path, and writing-mode →
Emoji Compositions — Create your own emoji by combining existing ones (👱♂️ + 🎩 + 🔎 = …)
Last Friday Max Lynch sent out this tweet: I'm still not over Apple killing the best emoji there ever was pic.twitter.com/gVOMhEP3Mn — Max Lynch (@maxlynch) March 15, 2018 Inspired by an idea that first came to my mind after seeing … Continue reading
CSS Houdini Experiments
At the very end of the Say Hello to Houdini and the CSS Paint API article there’s only a small mention of this site. However it’s that great that it’s worth a link/post on its own. ⚠️ Be sure to … Continue reading
Say Hello to Houdini and the CSS Paint API
With the CSS Paint API already being available in Chrome 65 and the CSS Layout API on its way it’s a good time to look at Houdini again. Say Hello to Houdini and the CSS Paint API → Related: This … Continue reading
Lesser known CSS Quirks & Advanced Tips
Whether your a seasoned developer looking for a good overview, or a beginning developer trying to get your head wrapped around CSS, this list of CSS Quirks (which you might have gotten accustomed to over time) is great. Lesser known … Continue reading