Category CSS

CSS is the language for styling websites, including their colors, layouts, and typography. With CSS, you can propagate styles to your HTML components, ensuring a consistent design across all types of devices, browsers, and operating systems. We highly recommend Heydon Pickering’s introduction to two key CSS features on creating consistent designs with minimal effort, in addition to using Semantic CSS With Intelligent Selectors.

CSS Frameworks Or CSS Grid: What Should I Use For My Project?

by Rachel Andrew

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November 9, 2018 — Have you ever considered whether CSS Grid can actually replace the need for CSS frameworks or third-party component libraries? In doing so, Rachel Andrew discovered a range of reasons people use a ... Read More…

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Rachel Andrew wrote

The CSS Working Group At TPAC: What’s New In CSS?

October 26, 2018 — Last week, Rachel Andrew attended the CSS Working Group meeting at W3C TPAC, and rounds up some of the discussions in this post — including those things where you can help make a decision. Read More…

John Rhea wrote

Splicing HTML’s DNA With CSS Attribute Selectors

October 23, 2018 — Attribute selectors are magical. They can get you out of sticky problems, help you avoid adding classes and point out some problems in your code. In this article, John explains how to use attribute selectors the right way. Read More…

Rachel Andrew wrote

Use Cases For Flexbox

October 4, 2018 — In this final article of the series, we wrap up by taking a look at some of the common uses for Flexbox. What should we use Flexbox for, and what it is not so good at? Read More…

Shane Hudson wrote

Designing A Textbox, Unabridged

September 6, 2018 — Building websites is hard. Let’s explore the creation of a component from start to finish, in the context of an exaggerated reality where projects aren’t flawless. Read More…

Rachel Andrew wrote

Take A New Look At CSS Shapes

September 4, 2018 — In this article, we take a look at CSS Shapes and how to create non-rectangular shapes using images, gradients, and basic shapes. We also discover how the new tools in Firefox make editing shapes easier. Read More…

William Lim wrote

Scroll Bouncing On Your Websites

August 15, 2018 — This article describes the effect of scroll bouncing and how it works on different web browsers. It contains reviews of several different solutions that are suggested on the web that can be used to prevent scroll bouncing. The CSS property, overscroll-behavior, which was … Read More…

Oliver Williams wrote

The Holy Grail Of Reusable Components: Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, And NPM

July 16, 2018 — This article looks at augmenting HTML with components that have built-in functionality and styles. We’ll also learn how to make these custom elements reusable across projects using NPM. Read More…

Rachel Andrew wrote

Pattern Library First: An Approach For Managing CSS

July 9, 2018 — CSS can be hard to manage across a project, especially when you need to include media queries for various breakpoints and fallbacks for older browsers. In this article, we will take a look at using Fractal to manage components which use CSS Grid. Read More…

Rachel Andrew wrote

CSS Grid Level 2: Here Comes Subgrid

July 3, 2018 — CSS Grid Level 2 is already in the process of being specified, and the main feature of this level of the spec is to bring us subgrid. In this article, Rachel Andrew explains the new features. Read More…