:nth-child Between Two Fixed Indexes

I needed to select some elements between two fixed indexes the other day — like literally the second through fifth elements. Ironically, I have a whole post on “Useful :nth-child Recipes” but this wasn’t one of them. The answer, it …

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System *Things

I think we’re all largely aware of named colors in CSS: color: OldLace; background: rebeccapurple; I guess you’d just call those “named colors” in CSS. Those aren’t the only kind of named colors there are though. Some of them …

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Working around the viewport-based fluid typography bug in Safari

Sara digs into a bug I happened to have mentioned back in 2012 where fluid type didn’t resize when the browser window resized. Back then, it affected Chrome 20 and Safari 6, but the bug still persists today in Safari …

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https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/safari-fluid-typography-bug-fix/

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Scaling Organizations Should Consider Building a Website Backed by a CRM Platform

To make some terminology clear here:

CMS = Content Management System CRM = Customer Relationship Management

Both are essentially database-backed systems for managing data. HubSpot is both, and much more. Where a CMS might be very focused on content and …

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Positioning Overlay Content with CSS Grid

Not news to any web developer in 2021: CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for creating complex, distinct two-dimensional modern web layouts. Recently, I have been experimenting with CSS Grid and alignment properties to create component layouts that …

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https://css-tricks.com/positioning-overlay-content-with-css-grid/

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Custom Property Brain Twisters

I am part of that 82% that got the answer to Lea Verou's quiz wrong. Stephen Shaw posted a similar quiz as well and it's a fun exercise sharpen your CSS chops.

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https://css-tricks.com/custom-property-brain-twisters/

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How to Cancel Pending API Requests to Show Correct Data

I recently had to create a widget in React that fetches data from multiple API endpoints. As the user clicks around, new data is fetched and marshalled into the UI. But it caused some problems. One problem quickly became evident: …

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Chapter 9: Community

In April of 2009, Yahoo! shut down GeoCities. Practically overnight, the once beloved service had its signup page replaced with a vague message announcing its closure.

We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up

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TablesNG — Improvements to table rendering in Chromium

When I blogged “Making Tables With Sticky Header and Footers Got a Bit Easier” recently, I mentioned that the “stickiness” improvement was just one of the features that got better for s in Chrome as part of the TablesNG upgrade…

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https://www.bram.us/2021/06/21/tablesng-improvements-to-table-rendering-in-chromium/

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Using Performant Next-Gen Images in CSS with image-set

The CSS image-set() function has been supported in Chromium-based browsers since 2012 and in Safari since version 6. Support recently landed in Firefox 88. Let’s dive in and see what we can and can’t do today with image-set().…

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https://css-tricks.com/using-performant-next-gen-images-in-css-with-image-set/

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