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Direct link to the article What does 100% mean in CSS?
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What does 100% mean in CSS?

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When using percentage values in CSS like this…

.element {
  margin-top: 40%;
}

…what does that % value mean here? What is it a percentage of? There’ve been so many times when I’ll be using percentages and something weird happens. …

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Aug 7, 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 `lh` and `rlh` units
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`lh` and `rlh` units

There’s some new units I was totally unaware of from the Level 4 spec for CSS values! The lh unit is “equal to the computed value of line-height” and rlh is the same only of the root element …

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Chris Coyier on May 5, 2020
Direct link to the article Designing An Aspect Ratio Unit For CSS
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Designing An Aspect Ratio Unit For CSS

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Rachel Andrew says that the CSS Working Group designed an aspect ratio unit at a recent meeting. The idea is to find an elegant solution to those times when we want the height of an element to be calculated in …

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Shared by Geoff Graham on Mar 13, 2019
Direct link to the article Gradians and Turns: the quiet heroes of CSS angles
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Gradians and Turns: the quiet heroes of CSS angles

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I love coming across little overlooked CSS gems, like the gradien (grad) and turn (turn) units that Ken Bellows uncovers in his post explaining them. I don’t know, maybe y’all are already aware of them, but …

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Shared by Geoff Graham on Feb 6, 2019
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The Lengths of CSS

There are quite a few properties in CSS that take a length as a value. The box model properties are the obvious ones: width, height, margin, padding, border. But plenty of others as well: the …

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Chris Coyier on Jan 18, 2020
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