A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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On the Full Stack Belgium Slack channel, user @Brammm recently asked how to create a simple image gallery. Anyone have a favorite way of making an image grid with CSS? I’d like one of those “fancy” ones where no matter the aspect ratio of the image, they all have the same gap between them. While …
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Already making rounds on Twitter last week, but now the video’s been released too: In this dynamic talk, Una goes over the power of modern CSS layout techniques by highlighting a few key terms and how much detail can be described in a single line of code. Learn a few layout tricks you can implement …
In Playing With (Fake) Container Queries Chris used the <resize-asaurus> web component to make the elements resizable. Curious to see how that worked I dug into its source. As I was expecting a truckload of JavaScript to make it work, I was very surprised to see that it basically revolved around using just one single …
gap property
The gap property for Flexbox about to land in Chromium 85. It allows you to define the size of the gutters between Grid/Flexbox children. CSS Grid brought a delightful spacing feature called grid-gap, which quickly became a popular way to put space into layouts. It was easy to fall in love with because it took …
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Nice pen by Aaron Iker: It combines CSS Custom Properties, CSS Transitions, and SVG Animations using stroke-dashoffset/stroke-dasharray. The reason that it works with text that spans multiple lines is because of the (inline) span that’s being used inside the link.
To use Tailwind – or any prebuilt CSS library/framework for that matter – in a React app you can simply import its generated CSS file and use the classes it exposes: import ‘../tailwind.generated.css’; // … const Alert = ({ title = '', message }) => ( <div class="bg-red-100 border border-red-400 text-red-700 px-4 py-3 rounded relative" …
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The Facebook Engineering Team on how they’ve built the new Facebook.com – a version which I’ve been able to try for nearly two months by now. Throughout the process, we anchored our work around two technical mantras: As little as possible, as early as possible. We should deliver only the resources we need, and we …
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Great find by Stefan Judis: Today I learned that the content property supports a way to define alternative text for generated content. You can specify the alternative content after a /: .new::before { content: url(./img/star.png) / "New!"; } Here’s how that works with screen readers: .new-item::before { /* "black star" and element content is read …
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min(), max(), clamp() in CSS
Ahmad takes a look into the CSS min(), max(), and clamp() functions. As with all his articles, he also provides some practical use cases and examples. Regarding the clamping of the font-size of a page, you don’t really need clamp(): This is how to accessibly set a viewport relative scaling `font-size` with a min AND …
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100vh in Safari on iOS
Update 2021.07.08: There are new viewport units on the way that will finally solve this issue. 100dvh is the one you’re looking for. When working with Viewport Units there’s this longstanding and extremely annoying bug in Safari on iOS where it does not play nice with the vh unit. Setting a container to 100vh for …