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.

Use Cases For Flexbox

by Rachel Andrew

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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?

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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…

Inna Belaya wrote

BEM For Beginners: Why You Need BEM

June 18, 2018 — CSS styles isolation is the most frequent start point of the BEM usage. But this is the least that BEM can give you. BEM brings a system approach in your project and keeps it from the mess. Read More…

Kunal Sarkar wrote

Making Avengers ID Card In HTML And CSS

June 4, 2018 — In this tutorial, we will build a sci-fi ID card for Avengers. You will learn Flexbox, Nested Flexbox, CSS animations, and a ton of other CSS techniques while building this interesting project. Read More…

Rachel Andrew wrote

Getting Started With CSS Layout

May 25, 2018 — Whether you’re fairly new to CSS or an experienced developer from elsewhere in the stack who wants to make sure your understanding of layout today is up to date, this guide covers everything you need to know about CSS Layout today. Read More…