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Article December 2, 2019

Having a Little Fun With Custom Focus Styles

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Every front-end developer has dealt or will deal with this scenario: your boss, client or designer thinks the outline applied by browsers on focused elements does not match the UI, and asks you to remove it. Or you might even be looking to remove it yourself.

So you do a little research and find out that this is strongly discouraged, because the focus outline is there for a reason: it provides visual feedback for keyboard navigation (using the Tab … Read article “Having a Little Fun With Custom Focus Styles”

Link July 13, 2018

The div that looks different in every browser

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Chris Coyier

It’s not that Martijn Cuppens used User Agent sniffing, CSS hacks, or anything like that to make this quirk div. This is just a plain ol’ <div></div> using the outline property a la:

div {
  outline: inset 100px green;
  outline-offset: -125px;
}

It looks different in different browsers because browsers literally render something differently in this strange situation.

I happened upon Reddit user spidermonk33’s comment in which they animated the offset to understand it a bit more. I took … Read article “The div that looks different in every browser”

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Almanac May 6, 2017

outline-offset

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Louis Lazaris

The outline-offset property in CSS offsets a defined outline from an element’s border edge by a specified amount. An outline, which is different from a border, does not take up any space on the page (like an absolutely positioned element) so the outline can be offset in any amount and it will not affect the position or layout of surrounding elements.… Read article “outline-offset”

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Article March 2, 2017

Text Stroke: Stuck In The Middle With You

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Chris Coyier

There is a non-standard way to stroke HTML text (SVG has a standard way). It’s not particularly new. There are -webkit- and -moz- prefixes for it. Jen Simmons recently posted about it, with an example:

span {
     -moz-text-fill-color: #fde;
  -webkit-text-fill-color: #fde;
     -moz-text-stroke-color: #666;
  -webkit-text-stroke-color: #666;
     -moz-text-stroke-width: 2px;  
  -webkit-text-stroke-width: 2px;
}

And she’s right:

This CSS isn’t fully-baked or fully-supported. But it’s good enough to be used today, especially since it’s simply offering a visual enhancement. It’s not mission critical

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Article September 12, 2010

Adding Stroke to Web Text

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Chris Coyier

Fonts on the web are essentially vector-based graphics. That’s why you can display them at 12px or 120px and they remain crisp and relatively sharp-edged. Vector means that their shape is determined by points and mathematics to describe the shape, rather than actual pixel data. Because they are vector, it would make sense if we could do things that other vector programs (e.g. Adobe Illustrator) can do with vector text, like draw a stroke around the individual characters. Well, we … Read article “Adding Stroke to Web Text”

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