“Smart” Layouts With Container Queries

Modern CSS keeps giving us a lot of new, easier ways to solve old problems, but often the new features we’re getting don’t only solve old problems, they open up new possibilities as well.
Container queries are one of those …

“Smart” Layouts With Container Queries originally published…

font-size Limbo

You might recall that Alvaro suggests bumping up font-size to 1.25rem from the default user agent size of 16px. Sebastian Laube pokes at that:

I wouldn’t adopt Alvaro’s suggestion without further ado, as I would waste so much space

font-size Limbo originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is…

HTML Attribute to Allow/Disallow Handwriting Input

A new explainer for a new HTML attribute to handle handwritten inputs. Like this:
<input type=”text” handwriting=”true” … <input type=”text” handwriting=”false” … <textarea handwriting=”” … <!– evaluates to “true” –<div contenteditable handwriting=”true”…</div<!– maybe? —
The primary use …

HTML Attribute to Allow/Disallow Handwriting Input originally published on CSS-Tricks, which…

Everybody’s Free (To Write Websites)

Sara Joy’s adaptation of the song “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” (YouTube) originally by Baz Luhrman with lyrics pulled directly from Mary Schmich‘s classic essay, “Wear Sunscreen”. Anyone who has graduated high school since 1999 doesn’t even have …

Everybody’s Free (To Write Websites) originally published on…

CSS Chronicles XLII

Remember these? Chris would write a post now and then to chronicle things happening around the ol’ CSS-Tricks site. It’s only been 969 days since the last one, give or take. Just think: back then we were poking at …

CSS Chronicles XLII originally published on CSS-Tricks,…

Christian Heilmann: Let’s make a simpler, more accessible web

Christian Heilmann gave this talk at Typo3 Developer Days. I’m linking it up because it strikes an already stricken nerve in me. The increasing complexity of web development has an inverse relationship with the decreasing number of entry points …

Christian Heilmann: Let’s make a simpler, more…

CSS Olympic Rings

It was a few years ago during the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo 2020 that I made a demo of animated 3D Olympic rings. I like it, it looks great, and I love the effect of the rings crossing each other.…

CSS Olympic Rings originally published on CSS-Tricks,…

(Hyper) Links About (Hyper) Links

Heydon on the virtues of hyperlinking hypertext in an anchor element:

Sometimes, the <a> is referred to as a hyperlink, or simply a link. But it is not one of these and people who say it is one are

(Hyper) Links About (Hyper) Links originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is…

CSS Functions and Mixins Module Notes

Most days, I’m writing vanilla CSS. Thanks to CSS variables and nesting, I have fewer reasons to reach for Sass or any other preprocessor. The times I reach for Sass tend to be when I need a @mixin to loop …

CSS Functions and Mixins Module Notes…