Thanks to Variable Units, authors can define Custom Properties and use them as units in their CSS
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CSS Custom Properties and !important
What happens when you set !important on a Custom Property? It’s not exactly what you think …
Open Props — Supercharged CSS Variables
Adam Argyle released a new project named Open Props. Similar to the aforementioned Pollen, it’s a library that offers nothing but CSS Custom Properties. Open source CSS custom properties to help accelerate adaptive and consistent design. Available from a CDN or NPM, as CSS or Javascript. Once included, you can use the Custom Properties the …
On Using Custom Properties
On Twitter, John Allsopp recently shared that Flexbox is the greatest thing that happed to CSS. I quickly chimed in with my personal favourite. To me the single greatest addition to CSS over the past 20 years is Custom Properties. They’ve opened up a ton of possibilities, and make us CSS Authors way more productive. …
Pollen — Functional CSS for the future
Interesting: a CSS library that only provides you with CSS Custom Properties to use in your own CSS: Pollen is a library of CSS variables for rapid prototyping, consistent styling, and as a zero-runtime utility-first foundation for your own design systems. Heavily inspired by TailwindCSS. Pollen →
Multi Colored Text with CSS
Nice text-effect demo by Shireen Taj: Using DevTools you can see that there’s a gradient background set onto the element. By also applying -webkit-background-clip: text; the gradient is only shown on the text itself. The demo’s also fun to fork and remix: Add some Houdini to animate it See the Pen Multi Colored Text with …
Pure HTML + CSS Calculator
Let this blow your mind: a functioning calculator done using only HTML and CSS by Lillian Kodi. Leverages the Checkbox Hack and the Space Toggle Trick. Crazy. As you may notice the option to divide is missing. I guess it was omitted because / is a character that might throw the parser off due to …
Dark mode in 5 minutes, with inverted lightness variables
Lea Verou shows a method to implement dark mode, not by swapping entire colors, but by simply changing their lightness The basic idea is to use custom properties for the lightness of colors instead of the entire color. Then, in dark mode, you override these variables with 100% – lightness. This generally produces light colors …
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Style Pseudo-elements with Javascript Using Custom Properties
Over at CSS { In Real Life }, author Michelle Barker has detailed a clever way to style pseudo-elements (such as ::before and ::after) through JavaScript. In Javascript we have a few ways of selecting elements, but we can’t directly target pseudo-elements. […] Luckily, CSS custom properties can help. 👉 If you set a custom …
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The Power of Composition with CSS Custom Properties
Maxime Heckel, while revamping the theme on his blog: I stumbled upon this pattern of composing CSS partial values for my HSLA colors, assign them to variables. Thanks to this, I was able to build my fairly complex theme and a full color palette that made sense for my websites by only using CSS. No …
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