A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 1)

In this article, you’ll learn how to make a full-on star rating component out of nothing but a single input element and vanilla CSS.

A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 1) originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get…

Using & Styling the Details Element

Now that we’re 5+ years into
, we know more about it than ever before. I thought I’d round that information up so it’s in one place I can reference in the future without having to search the site — and other sites — to find…

Applying the Web Dev Mindset to Dealing With Life Challenges

The grain of truth was that even if you love your job, it can’t love you back. Yet what I’m hooked on isn’t one job, but the power of code and language.

Applying the Web Dev Mindset to Dealing With Life Challenges originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is…

Toe Dipping Into View Transitions

The View Transitions API is more a set of features than it is about any one particular thing. And it gets complex fast. But in this post, we’ll cover a couple ways to dip your toes into the waters without having to dive in head-first.

Toe Dipping…

The What If Machine: Bringing the “Iffy” Future of CSS into the Present

My thesis for today’s article offers further reassurance that inline conditionals are probably not the harbinger of the end of civilization: I reckon we can achieve the same functionality right now with style queries, which are gaining pretty good browser support.

The What If Machine: Bringing the…

Handwriting an SVG Heart, With Our Hearts

A while back on CSS-Tricks, we shared several ways to draw hearts, and the response was dreamy. Now, to show my love, I wanted to do something personal, something crafty, something with a mild amount of effort.

Handwriting an SVG Heart, With Our Hearts originally published on…

Scroll Driven Animations Notebook

Adam’s such a mad scientist with CSS. He’s been putting together a series of “notebooks” that make it easy for him to demo code. He’s got one for gradient text, one for a comparison slider, another for accordions…

Scroll Driven Animations Notebook originally published on CSS-Tricks, which…

Typecasting and Viewport Transitions in CSS With tan(atan2())

We’ve been able to get the length of the viewport in CSS since… checks notes… 2013! Surprisingly, that was more than a decade ago. Getting the viewport width is as easy these days as easy as writing 100vw, but …

Typecasting and Viewport Transitions in CSS With tan(atan2()) originally published on…

Organizing Design System Component Patterns With CSS Cascade Layers

I enjoy organizing code and find cascade layers a fantastic way to organize code explicitly as the cascade looks at it. The neat part is, that as much as it helps with “top-level” organization, cascade layers can be nested, which allows us to author more precise…