Cool Tools
Chris Brandrick at Frontend Focus asked me to share five tools, libraries or packages that I love.
Chris Brandrick at Frontend Focus asked me to share five tools, libraries or packages that I love.
If you want to get up to speed on what’s new in CSS layout, this is a good place to start.
As web applications grow larger, they inevitably fall prey to complexity, despite our best intentions.
What I’m realizing as I continue to play around with :has() is that in practice, we can select any element in the DOM relative to another.
In case you missed it, container queries landed in all stable browsers this week.
Logical properties typically refer to the inline or block axis, which are different depending on the direction or writing mode.
A little while ago, Ana Tudor created an impressive collection of halftone patterns using only CSS.
It was interesting to hear about the challenges of measuring the carbon emissions of a website.
I was just preparing a demo and it suddenly occurred to me that cascade layers would be a perfect solution to a problem I was having.
Something I like about logical properties is the ability to set margins or padding on just a single axis on an element, while leaving the other alone.
Pinterest’s grid design is a commonly-cited example whenever the masonry conversation comes up.
This month saw Safari drop a new release that includes support for a tonne of new stuff.
I came across this website, Gridless Design recently, and it immediately struck a chord.
We developers can no longer rely on viewport size as the factor that determines the styles we serve up to our website users.
Just after Christmas I made a fun little Codepen demo recreating realistic-looking paper snowflakes in CSS, inspired by our homemade decorations!
Here’s something I find myself needing to do again and again in CSS: completely covering one element with another.
If you’re familiar with CSS, you probably know all about the box-shadow property.
Card-based UIs are commonly-used web design patterns, and it’s not unusual to build a UI that requires a hover effect to be applied to an entire card.
This past week has brought a few announcements from browser vendors of some exciting things that might have a big impact on CSS layout.