The strange thing about using CSS to style SVG elements is that only certain properties can be used, depending on the element. For instance, you can set the fill on a <polygon>, but not the points.
The W3C …
A handy guide to fixing common mistakes with Git from Joshua Wehner:
…One of the most useful features of any version control system is the ability to “undo” your mistakes. In Git, “undo” can mean many slightly different things.
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Paul Irish made a comprehensive list of all the JavaScript properties and methods that can cause a reflow. The big idea: do these things as infrequently and intelligently as possible.
The CSS equivalent: CSS Triggers.…
It’s a 2,000 line behemoth. It’s hard to browse or easily find what you are looking for in there. What can be done? This article isn’t about actually dismantling the file (although that would be a good one), it’s mostly …
It’s interesting to see how many people over time have come to the conclusion that certain seemingly-harmless words can be problematic while communicating:
simurai:
…I’ll try to show a few ways how you can make the cascade be your friend and maybe reduce the need of overriding and thus encounter less fighting with specificity.
You know how you can extend things in CSS preprocessors? (If not, you can learn about it here.) Sass can do it. LESS can do it. Stylus can do it. While it’s a feature you want …
The following is a guest post by Faraz Kelhini. Some of this stuff is out of my comfort zone, so I asked Kyle Simpson to tech check it for me. Kyle’s answer (which we did during an Office Hours…
Osvaldas Valutis is right, using the <label> to trigger the native browser functionality is the way to go. Then style up the label as needed, enhancing with some JavaScript if you like. Same concept as the checkbox hack.…
SVG has a <use></use> element which essentially means: go find the chunk of SVG that has this #identifier and kinda clone it and put it right here. It’s an essential ingredient to an SVG icon system. There are some …
