Dark Mode Toggles Should be a Browser Feature
When implementing Dark Mode and ways to toggle it, developers currently need to duplicate code and roll their own toggle implementation. What if, instead, browsers would take care of all that?
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First Look At The CSS object-view-box Property
Ahmad Shadeed dives into the new object-view-box property, a side-invention to the aforementioned Page Transitions API: The object-view-box property specifies a “view box” over an element, similar to the <svg viewBox> attribute, zooming or panning over the element’s contents. Like so: img { aspect-ratio: 1; width: 300px; object-view-box: inset(25% 20% 15% 0%); } Available now …
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Bringing Page Transitions to the Web
At this year’s Google I/O, Jake presented the revised version of the Transition API: Native apps often feature transitions between states that both look great and help communicate the type of navigation to the user. The bad news: creating transitions between pages on the web is impossible. In-page transitions are possible, but complex. The good …
Deep Dive into Text Wrapping and Word Breaking
Will Boyd: Let’s talk about the various ways we can control how text wraps (or doesn’t wrap) on a web page. CSS gives us a lot of tools to make sure our text flows the way we want it to, but we’ll also cover some tricks using HTML and special characters. Contains a ton of …
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The C in CSS (2022.04.20 @ Full Stack Ghent)
Yesterday I attended the April 2022 “Full Stack Ghent” Meetup, at the offices of In The Pocket. The evening consisted of 8 lightning talks. Being part of the speaker line-up, I kicked off the meetup with a talk titled “The C in CSS”. CSS is short for “Cascading Style Sheets”. But what exactly is this …
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The Future of CSS: CSS Toggles
Late last week, I was very delighted to see that Chromium will start prototyping with CSS Toggles, a proposal currently only available as an Unofficial Draft, authored by Tab Atkins and Miriam Suzanne (who else?!). CSS toggles are a mechanism for associating toggleable state with a DOM element. This state can be defined and connected …
Say Hello to <selectmenu>, a Fully Style-able <select> Element
Over at CSS-Tricks, Patrick Brosset dug into <selectmenu>, the customizable <select> we always wanted. The new experimental <selectmenu> control offers a lot of flexibility when it comes to styling and even extending a traditional <select>. And it does this in all the right ways, because it’s built into the browser where accessibility and viewport-aware positioning …
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What’s new in @bramus/specificity v2
Back in February I created @bramus/specificity, an NPM package to calculate the Specificity of CSS Selectors. As that version was more of a thought experiment/POC, there was a lot of room for improvement. Yesterday, after 11 betas, version 2.0.0 of @bramus/specificity was released. Let’s take a look … Quick Example To give you an idea …
The Hidden Fundamentals of CSS
In this CSS Café talk, Josh W. Comeau digs into several Layout Modes and a few common misunderstandings about CSS (such as Stacking Contexts) Also see the Understanding Layout Algorithms post Josh recently published.
CSS color-contrast() – Target Contrast Ratio Demo
Nice demo by Daniel Yuschick, showing how color-contrast() does its thing. Using the controls you can change the target contrast using a keyword or a custom value. Good use of Custom Properties there as well! 👨🔬 To check this demo you’ll need Safari Technology Preview 122+ with the CSS color-contrast() Experimental Feature enabled.