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Direct link to the article How to Make CSS Slanted Containers
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How to Make CSS Slanted Containers

I was updating my portfolio and wanted to use the forward slash (/) as a visual element for the site’s main layout. I hadn’t attempted to create a slanted container in CSS before, but it seemed like it …

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Dave Seidman on Feb 9, 2022
Direct link to the article Re-Creating the Porky Pig Animation from Looney Tunes in CSS
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Re-Creating the Porky Pig Animation from Looney Tunes in CSS

You know, Porky Pig coming out of those red rings announcing the end of a Looney Tunes cartoon. We’ll get there, but first we need to cover some CSS concepts.…

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Kilian Valkhof on Jan 26, 2021 (Updated on Feb 4, 2021)
Direct link to the article CSS Individual Transform Properties in Safari Technology Preview
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CSS Individual Transform Properties in Safari Technology Preview

The WebKit blog details how to use individual CSS Transform properties in the latest version of Safari Technology Preview. This brings the browser in line with the CSS Transforms Module Level 2 spec, which breaks out the translate(), …

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Geoff Graham on Dec 30, 2020 (Updated on Dec 31, 2020)
Direct link to the article How CSS Perspective Works
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How CSS Perspective Works

As someone who loves creating CSS animations, one of the more powerful tools I use is perspective. While the perspective property is not capable of 3D effects all by itself (since basic shapes can’t have depth), you can use …

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Amit Sheen on Sep 9, 2020 (Updated on Sep 10, 2020)
Direct link to the article The Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS
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The Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS

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This was always my favorite thing in Mad magazine. One page (the inside of the back cover, I think) was covered in a zany illustration. You folded that page in thirds, covering up the middle-third of that image, and a …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jun 25, 2020 (Updated on Jun 29, 2020)
Direct link to the article Turning a Fixed-Size Object into a Responsive Element
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Turning a Fixed-Size Object into a Responsive Element

I was in a situation recently where I wanted to show an iPhone on a website. I wanted users to be able to interact with an application demo on this “mock” phone, so it had to be rendered in CSS, …

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Philip Kiely on May 11, 2020
Direct link to the article Create Diagonal Layouts Like it’s 2020
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Create Diagonal Layouts Like it’s 2020

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Nils Binder covers the ways:

1. Use an SVG in the form of a triangle. This technique is nicely described by Erik Kennedy on CSS-Tricks.

2. Hide part of your section using clip-path. Read Diagonal Containers in

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Apr 9, 2020 (Updated on Apr 27, 2020)
Direct link to the article How to Re-Create a Nifty Netflix Animation in CSS
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How to Re-Create a Nifty Netflix Animation in CSS

The design for Netflix’s browse page has remained pretty similar for a few years now. One mainstay component is the preview slider that allows users to scroll through content and hover on items to see a preview.

One unique characteristic …

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Chris Geelhoed on Apr 7, 2020
Direct link to the article How They Fit Together: Transform, Translate, Rotate, Scale, and Offset
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How They Fit Together: Transform, Translate, Rotate, Scale, and Offset

Firefox 72 was first out of the gate with “independent transforms.” That is, instead of having to combine transforms together, like:

.el {
  transform: translate(10px, 10px) scale(0.95) rotate(10deg);
}

…we can do:

.el {
  rotate: 10deg;
  scale: 0.95;
  translate: 10px 
…
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Chris Coyier on Mar 30, 2020
Direct link to the article Weaving a Line Through Text in CSS
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Weaving a Line Through Text in CSS

Earlier this year, I came across this demo by Florin Pop, which makes a line go either over or under the letters of a single line heading. I thought this was a cool idea, but there were a few little …

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Ana Tudor on Feb 26, 2020
Direct link to the article Various Methods for Expanding a Box While Preserving the Border Radius
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Various Methods for Expanding a Box While Preserving the Border Radius

I’ve recently noticed an interesting change on CodePen: on hovering the pens on the homepage, there’s a rectangle with rounded corners expanding in the back.…

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Ana Tudor on Sep 6, 2019 (Updated on Sep 9, 2019)
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