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In my role as a web developer who sits at the intersection of design and code, I am drawn to Web Components because of their portability. It makes sense: custom elements are fully-functional HTML elements that work in all modern …
#202: Centered List Markers
Like so many things CSS, there is all sorts of little stuff to know, even something as minuscule as centering a list marker.
A reader wrote in with a screenshot of what they were trying to accomplish — basically an …
Proper Tabbing to Interactive Elements in Firefox on macOS
I just had to debug an issue with focusable elements in Firefox. Someone reported to me that when tabbing to a certain element within a CodePen embed, it shot the scroll position to the top of the page (WTF?!). So, …
Building an Ethereum app using Redwood.js and Fauna
With the recent climb of Bitcoin’s price over 20k $USD, and to it recently breaking 30k, I thought it’s worth taking a deep dive back into creating Ethereum applications. Ethereum, as you should know by now, is a public (meaning, …
How to Make GraphQL and DynamoDB Play Nicely Together
Serverless, GraphQL, and DynamoDB are a powerful combination for building websites. The first two are well-loved, but DynamoDB is often misunderstood or actively avoided. It’s often dismissed by folks who consider it only worth the effort “at scale.”…

margin-inline-end
The margin-inline-end
property in CSS defines the amount of space along the outer ending edge of an element in the inline direction. It’s included in the CSS Logical Properties Level 1 specification, which is currently in Working Draft.…
margin-inline-start
The margin-inline-start
property in CSS defines the amount of space along the outer starting edge of an element in the inline direction. It’s included in the CSS Logical Properties Level 1 specification, which is currently in Working Draft.…
margin-inline
margin-inline
is a shorthand property in CSS that sets an element’s margin-inline-start
and margin-inline-end
values, both of which are logical properties. It creates space around the element in the inline direction, which is determined by the element’s writing-mode
, …
Dynamic, Conditional Imports
With ES Modules, you can natively import
other JavaScript. Like confetti, duh:
import confetti from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/canvas-confetti';
confetti();
That import
statement is just gonna run. There is a pattern to do it conditionally though. It’s like this:
(async ()
… Fading in a Page on Load with CSS & JavaScript
Louis Lazaris demonstrates a very simple way of doing this.
- Hide the body (with JavaScript) right away with with a CSS class that declares
opacity: 0
- Wait for all the JavaScript to execute
- Unhide the body by transitioning it back
Two Issues Styling the Details Element and How to Solve Them
In the not-too-distant past, even basic accordion-like interactions required JavaScript event listeners or some CSS… trickery. And, depending on the solution used, editing the underlying HTML could get complicated.
Now, the <details>
and <summary>
elements (which combine to form …
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