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Resizing with CSS

In case you missed it, container queries landed in all stable browsers this week.

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Logical Border Radius

Logical properties typically refer to the inline or block axis, which are different depending on the direction or writing mode.

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CSS Halftone Patterns

A little while ago, Ana Tudor created an impressive collection of halftone patterns using only CSS.

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Web Sustainability and the Ethical Dilemma

It was interesting to hear about the challenges of measuring the carbon emissions of a website.

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A Handy Use For Cascade Layers

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.

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Logical Properties for Useful Shorthands

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.

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Masonry? In CSS?!

Pinterest’s grid design is a commonly-cited example whenever the masonry conversation comes up.

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Exciting Times for Browsers (and CSS)

This month saw Safari drop a new release that includes support for a tonne of new stuff.

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Aspect Ratio is Great

A little thing about why aspect-ratio sparks joy.

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Is it Time to Ditch the Design Grid?

I came across this website, Gridless Design recently, and it immediately struck a chord.

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Detecting Hover-Capable Devices

We developers can no longer rely on viewport size as the factor that determines the styles we serve up to our website users.

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Paper Snowflakes: Combining Clipping and Masking in CSS

Just after Christmas I made a fun little Codepen demo recreating realistic-looking paper snowflakes in CSS, inspired by our homemade decorations!

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A Utility Class for Covering Elements

Here’s something I find myself needing to do again and again in CSS: completely covering one element with another.

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Drop-Shadow: The Underrated CSS Filter

If you’re familiar with CSS, you probably know all about the box-shadow property.

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Irregular-shaped Links with Subgrid

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.

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Exciting Things on the Horizon For CSS Layout

This past week has brought a few announcements from browser vendors of some exciting things that might have a big impact on CSS layout.

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Different Approaches to Responsive CSS Motion Path

When it comes to using CSS Motion Path, it always bugs me that the path itself is doesn't scale.

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Positioning Text Along a Path with CSS

I've been playing around with CSS Motion Path a lot over the past couple of months, and having a lot of fun creating demos.

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Optimising SVGs for the Web

Optimising SVGs (scalable vector graphics) for web projects has the dual benefits of reducing the file size and making them easier to work with.

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7 Uses for CSS Custom Properties

Custom properties (also known as CSS variables) allow us to store property values for re-use in our stylesheets.