List assembled by Jordan Little: The CSS calc() function The pointer media query The currentColor variable The :valid, :invalid, and :empty pseudoclasses Counters using only CSS Predictable tables with fixed layout Easy form states using adjacent sibling selectors Algebraic nth-child() selection Animating elements with animation-fill-mode As a tenth feature I’d like to add the use …
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Minify: A JavaScript and CSS Minifier Written in PHP
MatthiasMullie\Minify is a JavaScript and CSS Minifier written in PHP. Usage is straightforward: use MatthiasMullie\Minify; $sourcePath = '/path/to/source/css/file.css'; $minifier = new Minify\CSS($sourcePath); // we can even add another file, they'll then be // joined in 1 output file $sourcePath2 = '/path/to/second/source/css/file.css'; $minifier->add($sourcePath2); // or we can just add plain CSS $css = 'body { color: …
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Making viewport units work properly in Mobile Safari
A typical issue with the well supported Viewport Relative Units (you know: vh, vw, vmin, and vmax) that bothers me a lot is that MobileSafari (Safari on iOS) takes the height of the address bar into account for 100vh. Take a look at the footer of that first block in the screenshot below: since its …
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Creating a Multiple Image Hero Layout with CSS Grid Layout
Feature Detection in CSS (CSS @supports)
There’s a good introduction to @supports on Mozilla Hacks: With @supports, you can write a small test in your CSS to see whether or not a particular “feature” (CSS property or value) is supported, and apply a block of code (or not) based on the answer. Progressive enhancement in it’s finest form: /* fallback code …
Pure CSS Twitter Heart Animation
Ana Tudor has recreated the Twitter Heart Animation in pure CSS: See the Pen no sprite, no JS heart animation – click it! by Ana Tudor (@thebabydino) on CodePen. Easy to follow step-by-step instructions in the original post. The most surprising part – to me – is that the particles are rendered using box-shadow. Recreating …
You don’t need JavaScript
CSS is powerful, you can do a lot of things without JavaScript. A quite commonly known example is usage of the Adjacent Sibling Selector (viz. +) to build custom radio buttons/checkboxes or tab interfaces. See the Pen CSS Custom Checkboxes / Radio Buttons by Bramus! (@bramus) on CodePen. With a few more CSS tricks such as …
Is Houdini ready yet‽
“Is Houdini ready yet‽” is a dedicated page to tracking the status of Houdini. But what is Houdini? Here’s a snippet from Smashing Magazine: Imagine how much nicer your development life would be if you could use any CSS property and know for sure it was going to work, exactly the same, in every browser. …
AOS – Animate on Scroll
AOS allows you to animate elements as you scroll down, and up. If you scroll back to top, elements will animate to it’s previous state and are ready to animate again if you scroll down. By setting data-aos-* attributes on your HTML elements, you can define which animation to use, what timing to use, etc. …
CSS Only Scroll Indicator
There’s a pen embedded in this post. Visit this post on the Bram.us website, or see the Pen CSS only scroll indicator on CodePen. I was interested to see if I could make a scroll indicator with just CSS. You can! But maybe you shouldn’t. This is an interesting consequence of a bunch of hacks …