Tagged “css”
Striking a Balance Between Native and Custom Select Elements (on CSS-Tricks)
We’re not going to try to replicate everything that the browser does by default with a native select element. We’re going to literally use a select element when any assistive tech is used. But when a mouse is being used, we’ll show the styled version and make it function as a select element.
Modern CSS Solutions
Modern CSS Solutions for Old CSS Problems
CSS Section Separator Generator (on wweb.dev)
A handy tool that generates the required HTML and CSS for various section separator effects (including diagonal lines, spikes, and waves) by cleverly manipulating backgrounds and generated content.
BEM Naming Cheat Sheet by 9elements
Here’s a handy resource providing BEM-based naming suggestions for some of the most common web components.
How to get started with web development (Go Make Things)
Here’s Chris Ferdinandi with a list of resources to help those who are new to web development get started. I’m keeping this one handy so I can share it with any friends who’re thinking of getting into this game.
How to create an accordion hover effect with box-shadows (Sarah L. Fossheim)
In this tutorial we'll use the box-shadow property to create a layered card component, and animate it on hover.
CSS Triggers
Check whether or not a CSS property is a good candidate for smooth animation based on whether updates to its value trigger expensive changes (to, for example, “element geometry”) causing layout updates and repaints.
4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover | CSS-Tricks
Let’s create a pure CSS effect that changes the color of a text link on hover – but slide that new color in instead of simply swapping colors.
The Contrast Triangle
Removing underlines from links in HTML text presents an accessibility challenge. In order for a design to be considered accessible, there is now a three-sided design contraint - or what I call "The Contrast Triangle". Your text, links and background colors must now all have sufficient contrast from each other. Links must have a contrast ratio of 3:1 from their surrounding text. By not using underlines, a design has to rely on contrast alone to achieve this.
BBC GEL Inclusive Components Technical Guide
The BBC Global Experience Language (GEL) Technical Guides are a series of framework-agnostic, code-centric recommendations and examples for building GEL design patterns in websites. They illustrate how to create websites that comply with all BBC guidelines and industry best practice, giving special emphasis to accessibility.
You Don't Need
A nice list of tips and tools on how to use simpler browser standards and APIs to avoid the added weight of unnecessary JavaScript and libraries.
Old CSS, new CSS (eev.ee)
I first got into web design/development in the late 90s, and only as I type this sentence do I realize how long ago that was. Here’s a history of CSS and web design, as I remember it.
A new technique for making responsive, JavaScript-free charts (DEV Community)
I wanted to see if it was possible to create SVG charts that would work without JS. Well, it is. I've also created an experimental Svelte component library called Pancake to make these techniques easier to use.
A Modern Typographic Scale (on 24 ways)
Here’s Rob Weychert advocating a combination of CSS custom properties, calc() and Sass to automate the construction of a flexible typographic scale in CSS.
Awesome Stock Resources
A collection of links for free stock photography, video and illustration websites
Layered, Smooth box-shadow generator (on brumm.af)
Inspired by Tobias Bjerrome’s blog post Smoother & sharper shadows with layered box-shadows
Subgrid for CSS Grid launches in Firefox 71
Subgrid for CSS Grid Layout has arrived in Firefox and it looks great. Here’s how I wrapped my head around the new concepts.
Using CSS Custom Properties to streamline animation
Thanks to a great tip from Lucas Hugdahl on Twitter, here’s how to use CSS custom properties (variables) in your transforms so you don't need to rewrite the whole transform rule in order to transition (animate) a single property.
You don’t need a media query for that: #1 Inline content separators
Create a more flexible component which allows the text to wrap based on the content rather than the viewport size.
Animating the underlining of multi-line text
Cassie Evans shows us how to combine background–size, a linear-gradient based background-image and a keyframe animation (all in HTML and CSS) for a lovely progressive underline effect on multi-line text.
Intrinsically Responsive CSS Grid with minmax and min
Evan Minto notes that flexible grids created with CSS Grid’s repeat, auto-fill, and minmax are only intrinsically responsive (responsive to their container rather than the viewport) up to a point, because when the container width is narrower than the minimum width specified in minmax the grid children overflow.
CSS pointer-events to the rescue
Sometimes, for reasons unknown, we find that clicking or tapping an element just isn’t working. Here’s a CSS-based approach that might help.
How to control SVG icon size and colour in context
A while back I read a great SVG icon tip from Andy Bell which I’d been meaning to try and finally did so today. Andy recommended that for icons with text labels we set the width and height of the icons to 1em since that will size them proportionately to the adjacent text and additionally lets us use font-size to make any further sizing tweaks.
Styling a Select Like It’s 2019 (Filament Group, Inc.)
Recently, we’d seen some articles suggest that things haven’t changed a great deal with select's styling limitations, but I decided to return to the problem and tinker with it myself to be sure. As it turns out, a reasonable set of styles can create a consistent and attractive select across new browsers, while remaining just fine in older ones too.
Image Color
A handy tool for identifying colours – provided in numerous different CSS-ready formats – and creating a complimentary colour palette from an image you upload or provide as a URL.
Grid by Example
Great resource from CSS Grid expert Rachel Andrew, with the Patterns and Examples sections which provide quick-start grid layouts being particularly handy.
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