A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Time to ramp up your CSS Grid Layout skills, as it’s now enabled by default in Chrome Canary: Boom! There it is. Latest Chrome Canary now has Grid Layout enabled by default. It’s on the way. pic.twitter.com/sUNOZKVUlH — Rachel Andrew (@rachelandrew) November 25, 2016 It’ll also land in Firefox 52. Speaking of, Firefox also sports …
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Great tool by Monica Dinculescu (@notwaldorf): If you’re using a web font, you’re bound to see a flash of unstyled text (or FOUC), between the initial render of your websafe font and the webfont that you’ve chosen. This usually results in a jarring shift in layout, due to sizing discrepancies between the two fonts. To …
Often forgotten, but no less important: print styles. This post provides a nice summary of some simple things you can do to give your print layout some love. A small collection of useful CSS techniques and a quick reminder that print style sheets are still a thing. I totally forgot about print style sheets →
Great and visual explanation of CSS pseudo-classes such as :only-of-type, :first-of-type, :last-of-type, :nth-of-type(number/an + b/even/odd), … Embedded above is the visual for the selector: a:nth-last-of-type(1) { border: 2px solid black; } How CSS pseudo-classes work, explained with code and lots of diagrams →
var(--subtitle);As per usual, great talk by Lea Verou: The key takeaway about CSS Custom Properties to me is the very first one Lea mentioned: they’re just properties like the other CSS properties we already know. This means that the normal behavior of inheritance is in place, you can manipulate them from within media queries, and …
Excellent post by Brad Frost in which he explains how they’ve combined class prefixes with BEM. In addition to a global namespace, we added prefixes to each class to make it more apparent what job that class is doing. Here’s what class prefixes we landed on: c- for UI components, such as .cn-c-card or .cn-c-header …
flex-grow: 9999; hackImagine a flex container (display: flex) with two flex items in a row (flex-direction: row). Item A on the left, and item B on the right. I would like the flex items to be stacked on top of each other when necessary. Item B has to jump onto the second line, if there’s not enough …
Yesterday Ana Tudor wondered if should could write CSS selectors using less-than and greater-than logic: CSS attribute selector wish:[data-code>2][data-code<19] { /* styles */ }[data-code>=19][data-code<65] { /* other styles */ }and so on… — Ana Tudor (@anatudor) October 12, 2016 Unfortunately this kind of selectors don’t work (yet). Until then one could use JavaScript to tackling …
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@supportsGreat tip from tuts+: When your CodePen demos rely on cutting edge CSS it’s a good idea to warn people. Let’s provide a notification when browsers don’t support our demos, using the @supports rule to make a handy reusable CodePen asset. New to Feature Queries (e.g. @supports)? Using Feature Queries in CSS will get you …
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