Making CSS-only loaders is one of my favorite tasks. It’s always satisfying to look at those infinite animations. And, of course, there are lots of techniques and approaches to make them — no need to look further than CodePen to … Single Element Loaders: The…
Am I on the IndieWeb yet?
Can’t smash the Like button hard enough for what Miriam Suzanne has to say on the challenging technical hurdles of implementing Webmentions: The first round required several online services along with HTML & JS changes to my static site, just to verify my … Am I on the…
Let’s Make a QR Code Generator With a Serverless Function!
QR codes are funny, right? We love them, then hate them, then love them again. Anyways, they’ve lately been popping up again and it got me thinking about how they’re made. There are like a gazillion QR code generators out … Let’s Make a QR…
Building Interoperable Web Components That Even Work With React
Those of us who’ve been web developers more than a few years have probably written code using more than one JavaScript framework. With all the choices out there — React, Svelte, Vue, Angular, Solid — it’s all but inevitable. One … Building Interoperable Web Components…
Please Give Me Some Space
There’s all kinds of ways to do that. Some more advisable and better-suited for certain situations than others, of course.
We could do it directly in HTML:
<pWe go from one line…<br<brdown a couple more.</p
But that’s … Please Give Me Some Space originally published on CSS-Tricks. You…
How to Create Block Theme Patterns in WordPress 6.0
Block patterns, also frequently referred to as sections, were introduced in WordPress 5.5 to allow users to build and share predefined block layouts in the pattern directory. The directory is the home of a wide range of … How to Create Block Theme Patterns in…
SPAs, Shared Element Transitions, and Re-Evaluating Technology
Nolan Lawson sparked some discussion when he described a noticeable shift away from single-page applications (SPAs): Hip new frameworks like Astro, Qwik, and Elder.js are touting their MPA [multi-page application] with “0kB JavaScript by default.” … SPAs, Shared Element Transitions, and Re-Evaluating Technology originally published…
Just How Long Should Alt Text Be?
I teach a class over at the local college here in Long Beach and a majority of the content is hosted on the Canvas LMS so students can access it online. And, naturally, I want the content to be as … Just How Long Should…
Cool CSS Hover Effects That Use Background Clipping, Masks, and 3D
We’ve walked through a series of posts now about interesting approaches to CSS hover effects. We started with a bunch of examples that use CSS background properties, then moved on to the text-shadow property where we technically didn’t use … Cool CSS Hover Effects That…
A Perfect Table of Contents With HTML + CSS
Earlier this year, I self-published an ebook called Understanding JavaScript Promises (free for download). Even though I didn’t have any intention of turning it into a print book, enough people reached out inquiring about a print version that … A Perfect Table of Contents With…