A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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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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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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 …
<selectmenu>, a Fully Style-able <select> ElementOver 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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@bramus/specificity v2Back 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 …
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.
color-contrast() – Target Contrast Ratio DemoNice 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.
Matthew Philips made something odd-looking: a JavaScript framework that lets you add DOM bindings using a CSS-like syntax. Say your framework of choice generates this markup: <div class="counter"> <button type="button" class="increment">Increment</button> <button type="button" class="decrement" disabled>Decrement</button> <div class="result"> Count: <strong class="count">0</strong> </div> </div> Using Corset, you can then add behavior as follows: import sheet, { mount …
At JSWORLD Conference, Maarten van Hoof presented “Container queries, the next step towards a truly modular CSS” Modular, componentized frameworks and libraries are more popular than ever, but currently screen size is the only dimensional constraint to which a web design can adapt to. In this talk, Maarten will explain what Container Queries are and …
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One topic that’s been sitting in my “to write about” queue for quite some time now is CSS for Dual-screen devices. Looks like I can scrap that one, as Stephanie Stimac wrote the post, which got published on Smashing Magazine Foldable devices are available to purchase, and are currently being used by consumers today, and …
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