A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
<selectmenu>, a Fully Style-able <select> Element
Over at CSS-Tricks, Patrick Brosset dug into <selectmenu>, the customizable <select> we always wanted. The new experimental <selectmenu> control offers a lot of flexibility when it comes to styling and even extending a traditional <select>. And it does this in all the right ways, because it’s built into the browser where accessibility and viewport-aware positioning …
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Unstyled, accessible components for building high‑quality design systems and web apps in React. Comes with components such as Dialog, Popover, Dropdown Menu, Toggle, … import * as Popover from '@radix-ui/react-popover'; function App() { return ( <Popover.Root> <Popover.Trigger>…</Popover.Trigger> <Popover.Content>…</Popover.Content> </Popover.Root> ); } Installation per NPM: npm install @radix-ui/react-popover Radix UI → Related: Headless UI — Completely …
Headless UI provides a nice set of bare bones React/Vue components — Menu (Dropdown), Listbox (Select), Switch (Toggle), Dialog (Modal), etc. — for us to use in our UIs. Completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components, designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS. In case you’re no fan of Tailwind, don’t let the “with Tailwind CSS” …
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Davor Suljic created a fork of my Smooth Scrolling Sticky ScrollSpy Navigation that — instead of using IntersectionObserver — uses some background magic to highlight the active navigation items. The result is a “Pure CSS” implementation: If you turn on an outline on one of the content sections it becomes clear how it exactly works: …
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In this episode of GUI Challenges, Adam Argyle builds a Settings Component with sliders and checkboxes. In this post I want to share thinking on building a Settings component for the web that is responsive, supports multiple device inputs, and works across browsers. Tons of CSS-knowledge in there: CSS Nesting CSS Grid Custom Properties for …
The folks over at Formidable have been experimenting with Houdini and WebGL/Three.js to create futuristic UIs Futuristic sci-fi UIs in movies often support a story where humans, computers, and interfaces are far more advanced than today, often mixed with things like super powers, warp drives, and holograms. What is it about these UIs that feel …
Very nice video by Sam Selikoff in which he sets up a web manifest to make his site feel more app-like. Great production quality. There are some tweaks I’d suggest though: Fixate the header using position: sticky; instead of position: fixed;. No need for that extra margin on the content then. Update: See note below …
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A common pattern in Mobile Apps is to have a Bottom Sheet / Slide Up Panel. React Native Slack Bottom Sheet is a wrapper around Slack’s native PanModal component for iOS. import SlackBottomSheet from 'react-native-slack-bottom-sheet'; <SlackBottomSheet topOffset={100} unmountAnimation={false} initialAnimation={false} presentGlobally={false} backgroundOpacity={0} allowsDragToDismiss={false} allowsTapToDismiss={false} isHapticFeedbackEnabled={false} blocksBackgroundTouches={false} interactsWithOuterScrollView > <View style={StyleSheet.absoluteFillObject}> <ScrollView> <Lorem /> </ScrollView> </View> </SlackBottomSheet> …
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If you’ve ever implemented a design with a fixed header, you’ve surely had this problem: You click a jump link like <a href="#header-3">Jump</a> which links to something like <h3 id="header-3">Header</h3>. That's totally fine, until you have a position: fixed; header at the top of the page obscuring the h3 you're trying to link to! Fixed …
Page editors are a great way to provide an excellent user experience. However, to build one is often a pretty dreadful task. Craft.js solves this problem by modularising the building blocks of a page editor. It provides a drag-n-drop system and handles the way user components should be rendered, updated and moved – among other …
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