Pure HTML + CSS Calculator

Let this blow your mind: a functioning calculator done using only HTML and CSS by Lillian Kodi. Leverages the Checkbox Hack and the Space Toggle Trick. Crazy. As you may notice the option to divide is missing. I guess it was omitted because / is a character that might throw the parser off due to …

Viewport Unit Based Typography vs. Safari

A common thing to do regarding font-sizing is to use Viewport Unit Based Typography, nowadays often combined with CSS min() or clamp(): :root { font-size: min(calc(1em + 1vw), 4em); } However, as Sara Soueidan details, Safari doesn’t co-operate here: In Safari on macOS, the fluid text wasn’t really fluid—resizing the viewport did nothing to the …

CSS Text Morphing

Similar to this 2019 demo by CodePen user Valgo (which uses SVG to create the effect), Amit Sheen created this wonderful CSS-only Word Morphing demo: The key parts to this demo are the filter on the wrapping .morphing element combined with the animated blurring on the .word elements themselves. You need both to get the …

The new responsive: Web design in a component-driven world

In this session from Google I/O 2021, Una Kravets talks about “the new responsive”, short for being responsive to the user, container, and form-factor (text-version available via link below): The web community is entering into a new era of responsive design and shifting our perspectives on what it means. With user preference queries, container queries, …

What’s New In CSS?

At the excellent Web Directions Hover ’21, Adam Argyle opened with a rad presentation covering all what’s new and upcoming for CSS. From risky and may never be in your browser, to stable and just released yesterday; follow Adam as he strolls through proposals, specs and supporting tools for all the this new CSS hotness. …