Articles Tagged sprites

I think of an SVG sprite as this:

<svg display="none">
  <symbol id="icon-one"> ... </symbol><symbol>
  </symbol><symbol id="icon-two"> ... </symbol><symbol>
  </symbol><symbol id="icon-three"> ... </symbol><symbol>
</symbol></svg>

I was long a fan of that approach for icon systems (<use></use>-ing them as needed), but I favor including the SVGs directly as needed these days. Still, sprites are fine, and fairly popular.

What if you have a sprite, and you wanna see what's in it?… Read article

HTTP/2 has been one of my areas of interest. In fact, I've written a few articles about it just in the last year. In one of those articles I made this unchecked assertion:

If the user is on HTTP/2: You'll serve more and smaller assets. You’ll avoid stuff like image sprites, inlined CSS, and scripts, and concatenated style sheets and scripts.

I wasn't the only one to say this, though, in all fairness to Rachel, she qualifies her assertion … Read article

a {
  background: url(sprite.png) no-repeat;
  display: block;
  height: 30px;
  width: 250px;
}

a:hover {
  background-position: 0 -30px;
}

The set height and width ensure only a portion of the sprite.png graphic is shown. The rollover shifts the position of the background image, revealing a different area of the graphic.

See the Pen KBjZwg by Geoff Graham (@geoffgraham) on CodePen.… Read article