A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
:nth-child() selector to invent new onesWhen combining :nth-child() with some other pseudo selectors, one can actually create new types of selectors. “:nth-of-m-child” selector /** * This selector will select the third element in a row, * if it is also the third to last element … thus selecting * the 3rd child in a row of 5 elements */ span:nth-child(3):nth-last-child(3) …
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Up until reading Flexbox Adventures I hadn’t really given much thought to how flexbox grow exactly works. If you do want to know: Available space = (Container size – Flex-basis siblings total). Flex Item size = Basis + ((Available space / Total Grow nums) * Individual grow num). A recommended read. Flexbox adventures → When …
The Specificity Graph is a very simple model for diagrammatically assessing the overall health of your codebase in terms of specificity—a way of looking at an entire project’s CSS and highlighting any potentially troublesome areas of higher-than-ideal specificity. We can then use this snapshot to refactor and rearchitect old projects into a better shape, or …
This content is quite old. You might want to check out this modern way of visual diffing, using Puppeteer instead Watches you browse, takes screenshots, tells you when they change. First you record a basic flow and take screenshots in between. Afterwards, when you’ve done some changes, you can let the flow play back again, …
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This content is quite old. You might want to check out this modern way of visual diffing, using Puppeteer instead Wraith uses either PhantomJS, CasperJS or SlimerJS to create screen-shots of webpages on different environments and then creates a diff of the two images, the affected areas are highlighted in blue By the folks over …
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TDCSS helps you write and document solid, maintainable and modular CSS. It’s especially well suited to adopt a test-driven approach to CSS styling – but of course you may just as well use it to build a regular online styleguide. Not too sure about calling this test-driven though, as the verificiation process is not automated …
<div class="scrollme"> <div class="animateme" data-when="enter" data-from="0.5" data-to="0" data-opacity="0" data-translatex="-200" data-rotatez="90" > Yup, that’s all. </div> </div> ScrollMe is a jQuery plugin for adding simple scrolling effects to web pages. As you scroll down the page ScrollMe can scale, rotate, translate and change the opacity of elements on the page. It’s easy to set up and …
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<div data-sr="enter left please, and hustle 20px"> Foo </div> <div data-sr="wait 2.5s and then ease-in-out 100px"> Bar </div> <div data-sr="enter bottom and scale up 20% over 2s"> Baz </div> <script src=’/js/scrollReveal.min.js’></script> <script> window.sr = new scrollReveal(); </script> Just add data-sr to an element, and it will reveal as it enters the viewport. The data-sr attribute …
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I set out to create a quick visual to summarize Flexbox when I run into these moments of pause in the future. I like to think of it as a little diagram (flow chart? decision tree-ish thing?) that is a cheatsheet…based on cheatsheets. (That’s only an extract, shown above) Flexbox Cheatsheet Cheatsheet →