Using box-shadow, it’s possible to create a pixels on screen: See the Pen Pixel Art 3: Side-by-Side Box-Shadow by Jacque (@jschrag) on CodePen. As you can define multiple box-shadow entries – comma-separated – it’s possible to draw multiple pixels on screen … Creating Pixel Art with CSS →
Tag Archives: css
CSS Grid Level 2: Subgrid
Good news! Firefox 69 will support subgrid. As Rachel Andrew explains: In terms of new syntax, and new things to learn, this is a very small change for web developers who have learned grid layout. A grid defined as a subgrid is pretty much the same as a regular nested grid, albeit with its own […]
Optimize Rendering with CSS Containment
The folks at Igalia has been recently working on the implementation of CSS Containment in Chromium – which already shipped in Chrome 52, back in 2016 – by providing some fixes and optimizations based on the standard. Their post forms a nice intro on the subject: The main goal of CSS Containment standard is to […]
CSS Grid Generator
Sarah Drasner (@sarah_edo), now at Netlify, created a handy tool to visually create CSS Grid Layouts. Handy if you’re not all to familiar with it, yet. CSS Grid Generator →CSS Grid Generator Source (GitHub) →
Well Aimed: How well do you know CSS Selectors?
Fun little quiz, testing your CSS Selectors knowledge. Well Aimed: How well do you know CSS Selectors →
CSS masonry with flexbox, :nth-child(), and order
Tobias Ahlin: On the surface it seems fairly easy to create a masonry layout with flexbox; all you need to do is set flex-flow to column wrap and voilà, you have a masonry layout. Sort of. The problem with this approach is that it produces a grid with a seemingly shuffled and obscure order. Flexbox […]
CSS Color Scheme Queries (“Dark Mode CSS”)
Next to Safari 12.1 earlier this month, Firefox 67 now also supports “CSS Color Scheme Queries”. The prefers-color-scheme media feature allows sites to adapt their styles to match a user’s preference for dark or light color schemes, a choice that’s begun to appear in operating systems like Windows, macOS and Android. Chrome will support + […]
Truncating Multi-line Text with CSS
To truncate multiline text in CSS, Safari introduced -webkit-line-clamp a long time ago (first mentions I found date back to 2010). .line-clamp-3 { /* Required declarations: */ overflow: hidden; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; /* Limit the text block to three lines */ -webkit-line-clamp: 3; } By now the property has been standardised as line-clamp. Firefox […]
Fading out siblings on hover in CSS
Nice one by Trys Mudford: Hover states traditionally run on the element being hovered on (makes sense, right?). But we can also listen for the hover event on the parent element. That’s the crux of this ‘trick’, we fade out all children when the parent is hovered, and attach another hover handler the child, fading […]
Direction Aware Hover Effect
A thing I commonly see nowadays are animated lines underneath menus and links: Show Pen One issue with that though: when hovering over an item the animation does not start from the place where you hover, but from a fixed point (here: bottom-center). Try hovering an item from one of its edges and you’ll see: […]