Articles Tagged direction

You know those times you get a horizontal scrollbar when accidentally placing an element off the right edge of the browser window? It might be a menu that slides in or the like. Sometimes we to overflow-x: hidden; on the body to fix that, but that can sometimes wreck stuff like position: sticky;.

Well, you know how if you place an element off the left edge of a browser window, it doesn’t do that? That’s “data loss” and just … Read article “A “new direction” in the struggle against rightward scrolling”

We shared a little trick not long ago about using the writing-mode property to set a title vertically. While a useful trick, it’s the tip of the iceberg on this property. Jen Simmons digs in and explains what’s really going on.

There is a certain way elements flow on websites. Without doing anything special, block elements push downward from top to bottom. Inline elements go from left to right. In writing-mode, that would be expressed by (the default) horizontal-tb (horizontal … Read article “CSS Writing Modes”