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A Calendar in Three Lines of CSS

Here’s a little CSS Grid use case where a list of days is transformed into a calendar: See the Pen Simple Calendar With CSS Grid by Calendar Tricks (@calendartricks) on CodePen. My choice for this CSS calendar tutorial is a list. Why? Because it’s the easiest way to show the amazing capabilities of CSS grid. …

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Using JavaScript’s closest() Method to Capture a “Click outside” an Element

In Practical Use Cases for JavaScript’s closest() Method, Andreas Remdt talks about some nice use cases that use Element.closest(). I especially like this example with a menu. Click on one of the links and it will show the menu which has the class menu-dropdown. Clicking outside said menu will close it. It’s that latter one …

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Emoji Customizer created with CSS Variables

Fun pen by Jakob Eriksen in which he combines Emoji and CSS Custom Properties to create an Emoji Customizer. The reason that this works is because of the fact that emoji can have modifiers. Skin Tone and Hair, as used in the demo above, are such modifiers. Using the ZWJ (“\u200d”) you can glue all …

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<ol>‘s start and reversed attributes (and more)

#HTML tip for today: <ol> element has `start` and `reversed` attributes! Some examples where it's useful:`start` → paginated results`reversed` → "top 10 best … " lists pic.twitter.com/vkh88h2zGV — Tomek Sułkowski (@sulco) March 20, 2020 Handy for those end-of-year lists 😉 ~ Apart from overriding the list style using CSS’s list-style-type (which you should set it …

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