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Changing SVG path data with CSS
Another thing I learned at CSS Day is that it’s possible to alter SVG path data – which is to be found in its d attribute – using CSS. As Chris Coyier demoed, one can overwrite the SVG’s path in CSS by using the (underdocumented) d property. As long as the paths match up (i.e. …
Breaking Elements out of Their Containers in CSS
A common thing to see in a design are visuals that break out of the main content column. You most likely have already seen this kind of design over at Medium for example, where it’s common for the main visual to be full width (or “full bleed”), whilst the content remains centered. Your typical Medium …
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Aspect Ratios in CSS are a Hack
UPDATE 2020.11.30: Aspect Ratios in CSS are no longer a hack, thanks to the new aspect-ratio CSS property! Right now I’m in Amsterdam attending CSS Day (my fourth time already!). Earlier this morning Bert Bos and Håkon Wium Lie – yes, the inventors of CSS – were on stage reflecting on the first days of …
Nicer CSS underlines with text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; (previously text-decoration-skip: ink;)
When applying text-decoration: underline; on an element, the line drawn will cross descenders. Using text-decoration-skip one can control the behavior of the underline The text-decoration-skip CSS property specifies what parts of the element’s content any text decoration affecting the element must skip over. It controls all text decoration lines drawn by the element and also …
CSS Shapes, Clipping and Masking
The release of Firefox 54 is just around the corner and it will introduce new features into an already cool CSS property: clip-path. clip-path is a property that allows us to clip (i.e., cut away) parts of an element. Up until now, in Firefox you could only use an SVG to clip an element: But …
How the CSS minmax() Function Works
One incredibly useful new feature introduced with the CSS Grid Layout Specification is the minmax() function. This function opens the door to us being able to write much more powerful and succinct CSS by allowing us to set, as a value for a grid track, a function including both a minimum and maximum value. Using …
Split emoji text effect with CSS
Thanks to some absolute positioning, hue-rotation, and even some clipping you can create nice split emoji: I especially like the experiments near the lower part of the demo, where one emoji is used as a modifier for the other (e.g. the 🎩 is placed on top of 😁, yielding a new emoji). They remind me …
Pure CSS Crossword (CSS Grid)
Nice demo of a pure CSS Crossword Puzzle, built using CSS Grid. Be sure to check out the validation rules too, they’re built using the General Sibling Selector (e.g. ~): #item1-1:valid ~ #item1-2:valid ~ #item1-3:valid ~ #item1-4:valid ~ #item1-5:valid ~ #item1-6:valid ~ .crossword-board–highlight .crossword-board__item-highlight–across-1 { opacity: 1; } UPDATE 2017.06.22: There’s a blogpost available, describing …
Typical display: flow-root; use case
Good display: flow-root; use case by Paul Bakaus: flow-root establishes a new block formatting context, but most have dismissed it as simply replacing clearfix hacks. But consider this extremely common case, where you have a few paragraphs of text, some bullet points and a floating image. In the image above you can see that the …