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Using CSS to Control Text Selection
Will Boyd digs into the user-select CSS property: CSS lets you control how text selection behaves and appears on your pages. This can help you improve usability in certain situations and add a little bit of visual flair. Let’s dive in! His posts includes a very nice hack to make user-select: all; work only at […]
The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode, using Vanilla JavaScript
In The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode, Joshua W Comeau extensively explains how he has implemented the Dark Mode toggle on his Gatsby-powered website. It follows the system’s light/dark mode preference, but also allows for an override which he persists in localStorage. The flow to decide if Dark Mode should be used or not […]
Dark Mode and Variable Fonts
Robin Rendle writing for CSS-Tricks, on leveraging Variable Fonts when implementing a Dark Mode: Oddly enough, these two bits of text [shown above] are actually using the same font-weight value of 400. But to my eye, the white text looks extra bold on a black background. How do we fix this? Well, this is where […]
98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs.
98.css is a CSS library for building interfaces that look like Windows 98. 😂 98.css → UPDATE 2020.04.28: Jordan Scale, the author of the library, has done a write-up on 98.css.
CSS Parallax Hero
The key property for the parallex effect itself is the perspective set on the .parallax-wrapper, in combination with the height and object-fit: cover; set on its containing img element. The shadow is injected using ::after ⚠️ Doesn’t seem to work in Safari …
Styling Ordered Lists with CSS Counters
Using CSS Counters, Josh W Comeau injects his own number in ordered lists. That way he can style the number itself separately. ol li { counter-increment: muffins; } ol li:before { content: counter(muffins) ". "; color: hotpink; } ol { list-style: none; counter-reset: muffins; } Apart from styling, I find this technique come in handy […]
Building dark mode on Stack Overflow
The Stack Overflow team walks us through their Dark Mode implementation. Building dark mode on Stack Overflow → 💡 Writing a JS app (React / Angular / Vue / …) and looking to implement Dark Mode? No worries, I’ve got you covered.
Wash your hands with the CSS Paint API
Mariko Kosaka has created a small PWA that fills your screen with water over a duration of 20 seconds. After first using CSS animations to animate the water (video), she eventually turned to Houdini‘s CSS Paint API Wash your hands for 20 seconds →
Create Diagonal Layouts with CSS Transforms
Layouts with diagonal sections are quite popular for several years now. It is not the new hot stuff, and you will probably not find it in the articles titled “Design trends for 2020”. But I think it is here to stay. It is one tool designers can use to bring some dynamic to all the […]