Articles Tagged CSS

I strongly believe that the documentation should be kept as close to the code as possible. Based on my experience, that's the only option that works well in the long term. External documents, notes, and wikis all eventually get outdated, forgotten, and lost.

Documentation is a topic that always bugs me. Working on poorly documented codebase is a ticking bomb. It makes the onboarding process a tedious experience. Another way to think of bad documentation is that it helps foster … Read article

In the front-end community, there is a lot of attention related to documenting JavaScript. That's not so much the case with CSS. Often times I feel like lost when I join a project with minimal or no CSS documentation.

Even though CSS is relatively easy to write, it can be quite hard to maintain. The specificity, the global scope of everything, and the lack of guidance can easily lead to inconsistency, code duplication, and over-complication.

I've long been curious … Read article

Updated on January 12, 2017: Proper support checks are now part of the article body. Added information about the block value. Minor tweaks and copy edits. Enjoy!

If you're a regular reader here at CSS-Tricks, chances are good you know a bit about web fonts. You may even know a few useful tricks to control how fonts load, but have you used the CSS font-display property?

The font-display property in CSS is available in Chrome, and emerging in Firefox … Read article

Say you want an animation to run for 1 second, but then delay for 4 seconds before running again. Seems like that would be easy. Turns out it's not-so-straightforward, but doable. You need to fake it.… Read article

It was way back in 2008 that Chris shared his "Ah-ha!" moment when working with CSS. You know, that metaphorical lightbulb that ignites when you go from not knowing what the heck CSS is to suddenly having a baseline for understanding how it works.… Read article

Have you ever worried that you're approaching CSS all wrong? That you're missing out on some new approach that makes everything easier and better? That you wish you were more confident about the state of your CSS?

I'm sure we can all empathize with Anna's sentiment here:… Read article

If you need to position a background-image in CSS 20px from the left and 10px from the top, that's easy. You can do background-position: 20px 10px;. But what if you wanted to position it 20px from the right and 10px from the bottom?

Let's also assume we don't know the exact width and height of the element, which is likely, because fluid layouts and dynamic content. If we did, we could just do a little scratchpad math and … Read article

I'm a big fan of resetting box-sizing to border-box, so much that we have a special day of the year around here. But there is a little adjustment to setting it that seems like a pretty good idea.… Read article

You've probably seen this pattern going around. It's an input that appears as if it has placeholder text in it, but when you click/tap into that input, that text moves out of the way and allows you to type there. It's rather clever, I think. Brad Frost has a really good post on it, detailing the pros and cons and such.

Many of the demos I've seen involve JavaScript. The other day I was checking out at Nest.com, saw … Read article

It's February 1st today, which I've decided to declare International box-sizing Awareness Day. In honor of, you guessed it, the most humble and undersung, yet awesome and useful CSS property: box-sizing.… Read article