Articles Tagged CSS

In early 2017, I presented a couple of workshops on the topic of CSS feature detection, titled CSS Feature Detection in 2017.

A friend of mine, Justin Slack from New Media Labs, recently sent me a link to the phenomenal Feature Query Manager extension (available for both Chrome and Firefox), by Nigerian developer Ire Aderinokun. This seemed to be a perfect addition to my workshop material on the subject.

However, upon returning to the material, I … Read article

Ever get one of those, "I can do that with CSS!" moments while watching someone flex their JavaScript muscles? That’s exactly the feeling I got while watching Dag-Inge Aas & Ida Aalen talk at CSSconf EU 2018.

They are based in Norway, where WCAG accessibility is not a just good practice, but actually required by law (go, Norway!). As they were developing a feature that allows user-selectable color theming for their main product, they faced a challenge: automatically adjusting … Read article

Have you seen Lynn Fisher's extraordinary A Single Div project? Not only are all these graphics drawn in just HTML and CSS, they are all created with (you guessed it) a single <div>.

Why would she do that? Here's one pertinent possibility: it's none of our business. We're free to wonder, or even ask if it's done respectfully enough. But does it really matter? Let's stop short of assuming she doesn't know what's she's doing, assuming it's a twisted form of pain, or that she's unaware of other technologies. Check out the example where she drew the official SVG logo with CSS and a single div. Woke.

When I saw Chris' article on notched boxes, I remembered that I got a challenge a while ago to CSS a design like it, but with rounded, scooped corners instead. So, let's see how we can do it that way instead and expand it to multiple corners while being mindful of browser support.

CSS is an abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheets.

While most of the discussion about CSS on the web (or even here on CSS-Tricks) is centered around writing styles and how the cascade affects them, what we don't talk a whole lot about is the sheet part of the language. So let's give that lonely second "S" a little bit of the spotlight and understand what we mean when we say CSS is a style sheet.… Read article

When I saw the original article on how to recreate this animation, my first thought was that it could all be simplified with the use of preprocessors and especialy CSS variables. So let's dive into it and see how!… Read article

You may have already seen a bunch of tutorials on how to style the range input. While this is another article on that topic, it's not about how to get any specific visual result. Instead, it dives into browser inconsistencies, detailing what each does to display that slider on the screen. Understanding this is important because it helps us have a clear idea about whether we can make our slider look and behave consistently across browsers and which styles are … Read article

Sometimes the first bit of HTML we write in a new document is an element that wraps everything else on the page. The term wrapper is common for that. We give it a class, and that class is responsible for encapsulating all visual elements on the page.

I've always struggled to with the best way to implement it. I found a related thread on StackOverflow that has more than 250,000 views, so obviously I'm not the only one wondering! I'll … Read article