A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Ahmad Shadeed shows us how to stylize scrollbars in CSS. See the Pen Custom Scrollbar – 2 by Ahmad Shadeed (@shadeed) on CodePen. While I’m no big fan of doing so in general, I can see some specific situations where it might come in handy, such as styling the scrollbars of overflowing tab button bars. …
There are some changes being proposed regarding viewport units, finally solving that “100vh in Safari on iOS” issue …
Max Böck: With container queries now on the horizon – will we need media queries at all? Is there a future where we build responsive interfaces completely without them? As Max details we will still need both, but will see a shift from some Media Queries to Container Queries. Good read; I found myself nodding …
Continue reading “Media Queries in Times of Container Queries”
Over at Codrops, Georgi Nikolov digs into Houdini’s Paint API and the Properties and Values API along with that. Recommended, as it’s all well explained and easy to follow along. Drawing Graphics with the CSS Paint API → Related: css-houdini-circles — A Houdini Paint Worklet that draws Colorful Background Circles →
In this post Louis Hoebregts creates nice tooltips. No, not a typical triangle injected at the bottom but a nice curved one, also letting the image underneath peek through. For it he uses mask-image consisting of two parts: one rectangle overlaying the top part of the image + one SVG arrow overlaying the bottom part. …
Continue reading “Perfect Tooltips With CSS Clipping and Masking”
Josh W. Comeau lays out the details how styled-components works internally. For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn’t at all clear how it uses traditional CSS features under-the-hood, and that lack of clarity can cause real problems when things go awry. In this post, we’ll learn exactly how styled-components works by …
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