A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
initial doesn’t do what you think it does
Another great video by Kevin Powell on one of those things in CSS that many may have heard of, but most likely don’t understand entirely (I know I didn’t for a very long time 😅). We often think initial sets something back to how it started, but it actually does a lot more than that. …
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Adding shadows on the web isn’t that hard: slap a CSS box-shadow onto an element and you’re done. But as Josh W. Comeau points out, making a good, life-like, shadow is hard. When I look around the web, though, it’s clear that most shadows aren’t as rich as they could be. The web is covered …
Coming with Container Queries are “Query Length Units”, a way to dynamically target the width/height of containers (cfr. viewport units). Let’s take a look …
On the Polypane website you can find an interactive Specificity Calculator. Paste in any selector from CSS Selectors Level 4 — yes, that includes those special cases :is(), :where(), :not(), etc. — and out comes the Specificity. CSS Specificity Calculator →
Very rad demo by Adam Argyle, which gives you a Spotlight / Focus effect upon pressing the Option/Alt key. Also works on Mobile. (Focus the CodePen embed first) See the Pen Radial focus effect with mask-image by Adam Argyle (@argyleink) on CodePen. It basically is a fixed grey overlay with a mask-image on top that …
grid-template-areas
When working with CSS Grid, I’m a huge fan of using Grid Template Areas. In this short video Kevin Powell builds a small layout where certain elements overlap inside a grid container. I was very glad to see Kevin also go for grid-template-areas here, showing exactly why I like using them: the ability to reshuffle …
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By layering a noisy SVG background and a gradient on top of each other, in combination with a filter that increases the contrast, Jimmy Chion creates these wonderful “Grainy Gradients”. See the Pen Grainy Gradient, step 3 by Jimmy Chion (@cjimmy) on CodePen. Over at CSS-Tricks he lays out the details: In this article, we’ll …
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Interesting: a CSS library that only provides you with CSS Custom Properties to use in your own CSS: Pollen is a library of CSS variables for rapid prototyping, consistent styling, and as a zero-runtime utility-first foundation for your own design systems. Heavily inspired by TailwindCSS. Pollen →
