Really nice CSS Grid demo by Olivia NG. It’s a magazine containing twelve pages on The Avengers: CSS Grid: Magazine Layouts → 💁♂️ Other nice CSS Grid Demos by Olivia include a Floor Plan and an Excel Spreadsheet
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RE: Overengineered packages?
ℹ️ This is a reply to Johan Ronsse’s post “Overengineered Packages?”. Be sure to read it first. After having posted about the class-names package, Johan turned to Twitter to state that the package overengineered. In a follow-up blogpost he argues that: At the moment I feel like it’s only invented because of a deeper problem: …
class-names – Conditionally join CSS class names together
One of the packages I’ve been using a lot is classnames, a simple JavaScript utility for conditionally joining classNames together. Recently I stumbled upon @sindresorhus/class-names, a likewise package whose usage is very similar. import classNames from '@sindresorhus/class-names'; // Think of these like props of your React component … const props = { type: 'success', small: …
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Old Typewriter Text Effect
By randomly changing the opacity and adding a little text-shadow, one can create this old typewriter effect: Makes good use of currentColor for the shadow, so it can be applied on any coloured text. Old Typewriter Text Effect → 💁♂️ Don’t confuse this effect with a typing carousel which types the letters one-by-one.
CSS Grid Demo: “Kandinsky zum 60. Geburtstag”
Nice work by Tatiana Mac, in which she recreated “Kandinsky zum 60. Geburtstag” by Herbert Bayer using CSS Grid. For comparison, here’s the original: Kandinsky Geburstag Invite on CodePen →
The State of CSS 2019
Despite being over 20 years old, there’s signs that CSS might be going through the same tumultuous teenage years that JavaScript just went through. Flexbox! Grid! CSS-in-JS! In 2019, CSS is finally dyeing its hair pink and getting a tattoo just like it’s always secretly wanted. Parenting books won’t help much with this one, but …
Relearn CSS layout with “Every Layout”
As just announced (on stage) at CSS Day by Heydon himself: If you find yourself wrestling with CSS layout, it’s likely you’re making decisions for browsers they should be making themselves. Through a series of simple, composable layouts, Every Layout will teach you how to better harness the built-in algorithms that power browsers and CSS. …
Reducing motion with the <picture> element
Great trick by Brad Frost, in which he combines prefers-reduced-motion? with the <picture> element <picture> <source srcset="no-motion.jpg" media="(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)"></source> <img src="animated.gif alt="brick wall" /> </picture> Yes, that actually works! Reducing motion with the <picture> element → 💫 When taking prefers-reduced-motion into account in your CSS code, it becomes really powerful when combined with CSS Custom …
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Indicating focus to improve accessibility
Great article by Hidde. It totally rhymes with my Building Better Forms™ by not taking away affordances post. It’s a common, but fairly easy-to-fix accessibility issue: lack of indicating focus. In this post I will explain what we mean by focus and show you how focus outlines make your site easier to use. Indicating focus …
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Creating Pixel Art with CSS
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 →