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Quick Tip: Clear VS Code Cache for Open Files
If you use VS Code, you might have enabled the setting for re-opening a previously open file next time the app launches. I do. I like that.…
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Designing for Long-Form Articles
Designing a beautiful “article” is wrought with tons of considerations. Unlike, say, a homepage, a long-form article is less about designing an interface than it is designing text in a way that creates a relaxed and comfortable reading experience.
That’s …
Committing CSS Crimes
The time for CSS-Tricks is over. Now is the time for CSS Crimes!
In this current landscape of content service providers, users are often limited to expressing themselves in text, links, and images. Sanitization rules tend to strip out HTML, …
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:left
The :left pseudo-class in CSS is used with the @page at-rule to select all left-hand pages in a print document that contains multiple pages. That’s handy for setting margins on double-sided pages so that the pages on the “left” side …
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grid
The grid CSS property is a shorthand that allows you to set all the implicit and the explicit grid properties in a single declaration.
.grid-container {
display: grid;
grid: auto-flow dense / repeat(5, 150px);
}
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Zooming Images in a Grid Layout
Creating a grid of images is easy, thanks to CSS Grid. But making the grid do fancy things after the images have been placed can be tricky to pull off.
Say you want to add some fancy hover effect to …
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How I Added Scroll Snapping To My Twitter Timeline
CSS Scroll Snap allows websites to snap the web page or any other scroll container to a specific scroll position when the user performs a scrolling operation. This feature has been supported in all modern browsers for over two years, …
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Actually, the San Francisco Typeface Does Ship as a Variable Font
Apple unveiled an expanded version of its San Francisco system font at WWDC 2022. Then, last month, Jim Nielsen zeroed in on the font’s variations, explaining how the font provides a spectrum of variations based on the width and weight…
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Converting Speech to PDF with NextJS and ExpressJS
With speech interfaces becoming more of a thing, it’s worth exploring some of the things we can do with speech interactions. Like, what if we could say something and have that transcribed and pumped out as a downloadable PDF?
Well, …
Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers
Dave Rupert with some modern CSS magic that tackles one of those classic conundrums: what happens when the CSS for component is unable to handle the content we throw at it?
The specific situation is when a layout grid expects …
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Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement Powers
When working with CSS Grid, the first thing to do is to set display: grid on the element that we want to be become a grid container. Then we explicitly define the grid using a combination of grid-template-columns, grid-template-rows…
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