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 →
Tag Archives: css
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. […]
CSS shape-outside Experiments
I like these pens by Kristopher Van Sant using shape-outside to wrap text in a shape. Take this heart for example: CSS Shapes Experiments → 🤓 Back in 2006 (!) I created a small site/tool named “The Box Office” to fake that. It took the line-height and floated a truckload of boxes to one side […]
Clearfix: A Lesson in Web Development Evolution
A lesson in webdev history by Jason Hoffman: The clearfix, for those unaware, is a CSS hack that solves a persistent bug that occurs when two floated elements are stacked next to each other. When elements are aligned this way, the parent container ends up with a height of 0, and it can easily wreak […]
BIO: Combining the powers of BEM, OOCSS and ITCSS for Improving CSS
Ryan Yu: There are many great techniques out there to improve the way we write CSS, and from my experience, I found the following three techniques that make up the BIO acronym work very well together BEM ITCSS OOCSS A lot of developers/engineers already know those famous techniques but I would like to go through […]
The Layouts of Tomorrow
With CSS Grid being available, Max Böck set out to find himself a layout challenge: I went over to dribbble in search of layout ideas that are pushing the envelope a bit. The kind of design that would make frontend developers like me frown at first sight. He settled on the “Digital Walls” shot (pictured […]
Animate CSS Grid Layouts with animate-css-grid
In a new(ish) web-project I’m working on, I went all-in on CSS Grid. The website contains a page where one can filter the list of elements shown. To animate this filtering I used animate-css-grid, as other libraries typically used for this – e.g. Isotope – don’t play nice with CSS Grid. Installation per NPM/Yarn: yarn […]
Resilient, Declarative, Contextual
I enjoyed reading this piece by Keith J. Grant on three key characteristics of CSS that set it apart from conventional programming languages. I want to look at three key characteristics of CSS that set it apart from conventional programming languages: it’s resilient; it’s declarative; and it’s contextual. Understanding these aspects of the language, I […]
Harry Roberts: FaCSSt – CSS and Performance
A Frontend United I was lucky to see Harry Roberts give this talk on CSS and Performance. You can watch it to, as the recording has been published to YouTube Ahh… CSS and performance. Two of my favourite things! But how well do they play together? It depends… In this very matter-of-fact talk, we’ll be […]