Tobias Ahlin: On the surface it seems fairly easy to create a masonry layout with flexbox; all you need to do is set flex-flow to column wrap and voilà, you have a masonry layout. Sort of. The problem with this approach is that it produces a grid with a seemingly shuffled and obscure order. Flexbox […]
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CSS Color Scheme Queries (“Dark Mode CSS”)
Next to Safari 12.1 earlier this month, Firefox 67 now also supports “CSS Color Scheme Queries”. The prefers-color-scheme media feature allows sites to adapt their styles to match a user’s preference for dark or light color schemes, a choice that’s begun to appear in operating systems like Windows, macOS and Android. Chrome will support + […]
Truncating Multi-line Text with CSS
To truncate multiline text in CSS, Safari introduced -webkit-line-clamp a long time ago (first mentions I found date back to 2010). .line-clamp-3 { /* Required declarations: */ overflow: hidden; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; /* Limit the text block to three lines */ -webkit-line-clamp: 3; } By now the property has been standardised as line-clamp. Firefox […]
Fading out siblings on hover in CSS
Nice one by Trys Mudford: Hover states traditionally run on the element being hovered on (makes sense, right?). But we can also listen for the hover event on the parent element. That’s the crux of this ‘trick’, we fade out all children when the parent is hovered, and attach another hover handler the child, fading […]
Direction Aware Hover Effect
A thing I commonly see nowadays are animated lines underneath menus and links: Show Pen One issue with that though: when hovering over an item the animation does not start from the place where you hover, but from a fixed point (here: bottom-center). Try hovering an item from one of its edges and you’ll see: […]
HTML slides without frameworks, just CSS
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: […]
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 […]