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New Sep 17, 2024
Clever Polypane Debugging Features I’m Loving
I’m working on a refresh of my personal website, what I’m calling the HD remaster. Well, I wouldn’t call it a “full” redesign. I’m just cleaning things up, and Pol...
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New Sep 16, 2024
Multiple Anchors
Only Chris, right? You’ll want to view this in a Chromium browser: CodePen Embed Fallback This is exactly the sort of thing I love, not for its practicality (cuz it ain’t), bu...
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New Sep 16, 2024
Smashing Hour With Lynn Fisher
I’m a big Lynn Fisher fan. You probably are, too, if you’re reading this. Or maybe you’re reading her name for the first time, in which case you’re in for a tr...
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New Sep 13, 2024
Two CSS Properties for Trimming Text Box Whitespace
The text-box-trim and text-box-edge properties in CSS enable developers to trim specifiable amounts of the whitespace that appear above the first formatted line of text and below the la...
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New Sep 12, 2024
What’s Old is New
I collect a bunch of links in a bookmarks folder. These are things I fully intend to read, and I do — eventually. It’s a good thing bookmarks are digital, otherwise, I’d need a bigger co...
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New Sep 11, 2024
Two Ways to Create Custom Translated Messaging for HTML Forms
HTML forms come with built-in ways to validate form inputs and other controls against predefined rules such as making an input required, setting min and max constraints on range sliders, or es...
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New Sep 10, 2024
Quick Hit #18
PSA: Today’s the day that Google’s performance tools officially stops supporting the First Input Delay (FID) metric that was replaced by Interaction to Next Paint (INP).… Quick Hit...
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New Sep 10, 2024
Anchor Positioning Quirks
I am thrilled to say, that from this week onwards, the CSS-tricks Almanac has an entry for each property, function, and at-rule related to the new Anchor Positioning API! For the last month, I have t...
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New Sep 10, 2024
Sanding UI
Jim hit a snag while working on a form. Placing labels next to inputs is trivial with flexbox, sure, but what happened in Jim’s case was a bit of dead-clicking between the labels and radio butt...
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New Sep 9, 2024
Time Travelling CSS With :target
Checkbox and radio button hacks are the (in)famous trick for creating games using just CSS. But it turns out that other elements based on user input can be hacked and...
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New Sep 9, 2024
Sticky Headers And Full-Height Elements: A Tricky Combination
Quite a fun article I worked on with Philip Braunen. Do you know that little bit of elasticity you get when scrolling beyond the viewport when browsing the web on a mobile device? iPhone calls...
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New Sep 9, 2024
Quick Hit #17
“Wrapping the <labelaround the <inputis fine, and is sufficient for conformance on its own, however adding explicit association with for and id is still necessary in practice.”...
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New Sep 5, 2024
Quick Hit #16
“Never, ever hire for JavaScript framework skills. Instead, interview and hire only for fundamentals like web standards, accessibility, modern CSS, semantic HTML, and Web Components.” — Al...
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New Sep 5, 2024
Quick Hit #15
Almost missed that the WP Twenty Twenty-Five theme was approved a couple weeks ago.… Quick Hit #15 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should...
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New Sep 3, 2024
Quick Hit #14
Inclusive Design 24 is in 8 short days — and it’s FREE, no sign-up required!… Quick Hit #14 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should ge...