With CSS Grid being available, Max Böck set out to find himself a layout challenge: I went over to dribbble in search of layout ideas that are pushing the envelope a bit. The kind of design that would make frontend developers like me frown at first sight. He settled on the “Digital Walls” shot (pictured …
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Rearrange / Animate CSS Grid Layouts with animate-css-grid
In a new(ish) web-project I’m working on, I went all-in on CSS Grid. The website contains a page where one can filter the list of elements shown. To animate this filtering I used animate-css-grid, as other libraries typically used for this – e.g. Isotope – don’t play nice with CSS Grid. Installation per NPM/Yarn: yarn …
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Resilient, Declarative, Contextual
I enjoyed reading this piece by Keith J. Grant on three key characteristics of CSS that set it apart from conventional programming languages. I want to look at three key characteristics of CSS that set it apart from conventional programming languages: it’s resilient; it’s declarative; and it’s contextual. Understanding these aspects of the language, I …
Harry Roberts: FaCSSt – CSS and Performance
A Frontend United I was lucky to see Harry Roberts give this talk on CSS and Performance. You can watch it to, as the recording has been published to YouTube Ahh… CSS and performance. Two of my favourite things! But how well do they play together? It depends… In this very matter-of-fact talk, we’ll be …
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How CSS works: Parsing and painting CSS in the critical rendering path
Insightful post by the folks over at LogRocket on the rendering pipeline: If your site takes forever to load, chances are your users aren’t gonna wait for it to finish, even if there’s valuable content to be found there. Some studies have shown that up to 50% of users leave a page after 3 seconds …
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CSS Perspective Text Hover
Side-channel attacking browsers through CSS3 features
Ruslan Habalov and Dario Weißer found a way to read contents from an iframe, using CSS3: Accessing the DOM of an iframe that includes a cross-origin resource is forbidden by default. However, the content of the iframe was displayed in the same context as the rest of the site so we wanted to verify if …
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Demystifying the future of CSS with sparkles of JS
At the recent JSConf.be conference here in Belgium, Ibe Vanmeenen gave a very nice talk introducing Houdini. CSS as a language is at the brink of a great revolution. Once such a closed and magical language, it will open up to you and your creativity in all it's glory. CSS will become an easy to …
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Unicode Patterns with <css-doodle />
<css-doodle /> is a web component for drawing patterns with CSS. The component will generate a grid of divs by the rules (plain CSS) inside it. You can easily manipulate those cells using CSS to come up with a graphic pattern or an animated graph. The limit is the limit of CSS itself. Combine <css-doodle …
Pure CSS Francine – An 18th-Century Oil Painting Recreated with HTML and CSS
Handcrafted recreation of an 18th-century oil painting using just HTML and CSS. Here’s an analysis of it using the Chrome DevTools, as recorded by Paul Irish: Chrome only though: Because of the artistic nature of this project I have not concerned myself with cross-browser-compatibility, so the live preview will most likely look laughable in anything …
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