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Getting Started With WordPress Block DevelopmentLet’s acknowledge that developing for WordPress is weird right now. Whether you’re new to WordPress or have worked with it for eons, the...
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GIFs Without the .gif: The Most Performant Image and Video Options Right NowSo you want an auto-playing looping video without sound? In popular vernacular this is the very meaning of the word GIF . The word has stuck...
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Named Element IDs Can Be Referenced as JavaScript GlobalsDid you know that DOM elements with IDs are accessible in JavaScript as global variables? It’s one of those things that’s been around, like,...
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How to Create Wavy Shapes & Patterns in CSSThe wave is probably one of the most difficult shapes to make in CSS. We always try to approximate it with properties like border-radius and...
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How To Customize WordPress Block Theme Cover Templates with Dynamic Post Feature ImagesIf we browse the WordPress theme directory , a majority of themes showcase cover images. It is a feature in popular demand. The cover page trend...
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The Web is Good NowThe video of Chris Coyier’s talk at CascadiaJS 2022 is now available. It’s his first in-person talk in more than two years, so...
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How I Made an Icon System Out of CSS Custom PropertiesSVG is the best format for icons on a website, there is no doubt about that . It allows you to have sharp icons no matter the screen pixel...
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CSS Rules vs. CSS RulesetsThe latest spec : A style rule is a qualified rule that associates a selector list with a list of property...
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CSS Checkerboard Background… But With Rounded Corners and Hover StylesOn one hand, creating simple checkered backgrounds with CSS is easy. On the other hand, though, unless we are one of the CSS-gradient-ninjas, we...
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Making a Real-Time Clock With a Conic Gradient FaceGradients have been a part of the CSS spectrum for quite some time now. We see a lot of radial and linear gradients in a lot of projects, but...
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More Details on `details`A lot of chatter around the ol’ <details> and <summary> elements lately! I saw Lea Verou recently tweet an observation...
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When is it OK to Disable Text Selection?Using CSS, it’s possible to prevent users from selecting text within an element using user-select: none . Now, it’s understandable why doing so...
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WebKit Features in Safari 16.0Whew boy, Safari 16 is officially out in the wild and it packs in a bunch of features, some new and exciting (Subgrid! Container Queries! Font...
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The Basics of RemixYou’ve probably heard a lot of hype around one of the newest kids on the framework block, Remix. It may be surprising that it got its start back...
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Building Interactive Figma WidgetsFigma has always encouraged collaboration between developers and designers. It strives on an endless treasury of community-made plugins....
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How I Made a Pure CSS Puzzle GameI recently discovered the joy of creating CSS-only games. It’s always fascinating how HTML and CSS are capable of handling the logic of an entire...
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What’s New With Forms in 2022?Browsers are constantly adding new HTML, JavaScript and CSS features. Here are some useful additions to working with forms that you might have...
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Overlapping Bar ChartsAs the name suggests, overlapping charts visualize two different sets of data in a single diagram. The idea is that the overlapping bars allow us...
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Hacking CSS Animation State and Playback TimeCSS-only Wolfenstein is a little project that I made a few weeks ago. It was an experiment with CSS 3D transformations and animations....
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Flutter For Front-End Web DevelopersI started as a front-end web developer and then became a Flutter developer. I think there were some concepts that helped me adopt Flutter...
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Behind the CSScenes, September 2022Those of you who have been reading CSS-Tricks for a while may remember that we used to publish a little thing we called CSS-Tricks Chronicles ....
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A Brief Introduction to JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOverA screen reader is an important accessibility tool for people with no or limited vision. People who are blind or those with low vision can use a...
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iShadeed’s Container Queries LabAhmad Shadeed got an early jump on container queries and has a growing collection of examples based on everyday patterns. And,...
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Interpolating Numeric CSS VariablesWe can make variables in CSS pretty easily: :root { --scale: 1; } And we can declare them on any element: .thing {...
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Using Grid Named Areas to Visualize (and Reference) Your LayoutWhenever we build simple or complex layouts using CSS Grid, we’re usually positioning items with line numbers. Grid layouts contain grid...
