In CSS, Style Queries which allow querying computed values of a container. Let’s take a look at what that means …
Container Queries: Style Queries
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100 Days Of More Or Less Modern CSS
The great Manuel Matuzović: It’s time to get me up to speed with modern CSS. There’s so much new in CSS that I know too little about. To change that I’ve started #100DaysOfMoreOrLessModernCSS. Why more or less modern CSS? Because some topics will be about cutting-edge features, while other stuff has been around for quite …
Upgrading colors to HD on the web
Let’s take a look at how we can progressively enhance the color experience on the web, accessing color spaces such as display-p3.
CSS in 2022 (and beyond) (2022.09.09 @ Fronteers Conf)
Escaping the sRGB Prison
At the most recent CSS Day, Chris Lilley gave a talk titled “Escaping the sRGB Prison”. Imagine that I told you that you are only allowed to use two-thirds of the colors that your screen can display. All the brightest and most vivid shades are not allowed. Unacceptable, right?! Welcome to Web design for the …
JavaScript: Restart all CSS Animations of an Element
Recently built a demo that demonstrated a specific animation. Only problem: if you missed it, you had no way of restarting it. Instead of forcing the visitor to reload the page, this little JavaScript-snippet – attached to a button click – did the trick: const restartAnimations = ($el) => { $el.getAnimations().forEach((anim) => { anim.cancel(); anim.play(); …
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The Future of CSS: Variable Units, powered by Custom Properties
Thanks to Variable Units, authors can define Custom Properties and use them as units in their CSS
Show CSS browser support data with css-browser-support
If you want to include Browser Support tables on your site, you can use this package by Stephanie Eckles Query for CSS browser support data, combined from caniuse and MDN, including version support started and global support percentages. Per feature that ask it, you get back an object with the browsers and the data: { …
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Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager
Wonderful talk by Andy Bell. We look at how we can hint the browser, rather than micromanage it by leaning into progressive enhancement, CSS layout, fluid type & space and modern CSS capabilities to build resilient front-ends that look great for everyone, regardless of their device, connection speed or context. Slides available as well
A Previous Sibling Selector
Jim Nielsen set out to style a bunch of links that appeared before hr elements. As the element tree – generated from a Markdown file – was entirely flat, there are no enclosing section elements to hook onto in order to select those links (using something like section p:last-child a:only-child). The solution? The :has() selector: …