We’re still in suuuuuper early days with container queries. Too early for broad browser support, but Chromium already supports it, Safari started supporting it in version 16, and Firefox is presumably not far behind.
Most early days conversations … Early Days of Container Style Queries originally published…
Rendering External API Data in WordPress Blocks on the Front End
There’ve been some new tutorials popping here on CSS-Tricks for working with WordPress blocks. One of them is an introduction to WordPress block development and it’s a good place to learn what blocks are and to register them in WordPress … Rendering External API Data in…
Adding Fluid Typography Support to WordPress Block Themes
Fluid typography is a fancy way of “describing font properties, such as size or line height, that scale fluidly according to the size of the viewport”. It’s also known by other names, like responsive typography, flexible type, fluid type, … Adding Fluid Typography Support to WordPress…
How to Safely Share Your Email Address on a Website
Spammers are a huge deal nowadays. If you want to share your contact information without getting overwhelmed by spam email you need a solution. I run into this problem a few months ago. While I was researching how to solve … How to Safely Share Your…
Using Web Components With Next (or Any SSR Framework)
In my previous post we looked at Shoelace, which is a component library with a full suite of UX components that are beautiful, accessible, and — perhaps unexpectedly — built with Web Components. This means they can be used … Using Web Components With Next (or…
Introducing Shoelace, a Framework-Independent Component-Based UX Library
This is a post about Shoelace, a component library by Cory LaViska, but with a twist. It defines all your standard UX components: tabs, modals, accordions, auto-completes, and much, much more. They look beautiful out of the … Introducing Shoelace, a Framework-Independent Component-Based UX Library originally…
Getting Started With WordPress Block Development
Let’s acknowledge that developing for WordPress is weird right now. Whether you’re new to WordPress or have worked with it for eons, the introduction of “Full-Site Editing” (FSE) features, including the Block Editor (WordPress 5.0) and the Site Editor (WordPress … Getting Started With WordPress Block…
Why Whitespace Matters for Your Web Layout
In a time when we’re sounded by information, it is extremely important for designers to think about being clear with their layouts. We must remember to deliver a page that will get viewers’ attention, whether they’re purchasing something from an…
The post Why Whitespace Matters for Your…
GIFs Without the .gif: The Most Performant Image and Video Options Right Now
So you want an auto-playing looping video without sound? In popular vernacular this is the very meaning of the word GIF. The word has stuck around but the image format itself is ancient and obsolete. Twitter, for example, has … GIFs Without the .gif: The Most…
Named Element IDs Can Be Referenced as JavaScript Globals
Did you know that DOM elements with IDs are accessible in JavaScript as global variables? It’s one of those things that’s been around, like, forever but I’m really digging into it for the first time.
If this is the first … Named Element IDs Can Be Referenced…