I don’t know about y’all, but my feeds have been flooded with articles about CSS Container Queries these past few weeks. The buzz about container queries actually started back in December after Miriam Suzanne posted a proposal (picking up on …
How many times have you heard that (or even uttered it under your own breath)? I know I’ve heard it in conversations. I also know I’ve wondered the same thing about a product or two — hey, the idea here …
Yay, it’s here! Safari 14.1 reportedly adds support for the gap property in flexbox layouts. We’ve had grid-gap support for some time, but true to its name, it’s limited to grid layouts. Now we can use gap in either type …
The justify-self property in CSS sets the justification of an element within its containing block. Its behavior depends on the display of the containing block. For example, if the containing block is a grid container (i.e. display: grid), we …
The block editor was a game-changer for WordPress. The idea that we can create blocks of content and arrange them in a component-like fashion means we have a lot of flexibility in how we create content, as well a bunch …
/* Only show invalid ring while not focused */
input:not(:focus):not(:placeholder-shown):invalid {
border-color: var(--color-invalid);
}
input:not(:focus):not(:placeholder-shown):invalid ~ .error-message {
display: block;
}
/* Only show valid ring while not focused and if a value is entered */
/* :empty won't work :future is a CSS pseudo-selector we can use to style upcoming elements during media playback. Think subtitles in videos. We can use this to style subtitles that are coming up next to separate them visually from the currently displayed subtitle…
:past is a CSS pseudo-selector that matches elements that have passed along a timeline. Where you’ll see this come into play is largely with video subtitles created with WebVTT. When a subtitle is no longer the currently displayed text, it …
:current is a CSS pseudo-selector that matches an element or an ancestor of an element that’s currently in display. So, we can match items that have rendered on the screen like this:
:current(p, ul);…and that will select all currently …
One of the things I do when teaching beginning front-end development is ask students to describe what it’s like to read HTML. I give them pretty basic markup for a long-form article, and ask them to read it twice: first …
Bruce Lawson with the tip of the day, warning against the use of pointer-events: none on forms labels. We know that pointer-events is used to change how elements respond to click, tap, hover, and active states. But it apparently borks …
