The results from this year's survey are fairly fresh off the presses. We took a little time to sit with them and jot down some things we noticed and found interesting.
State of CSS 2024 Results originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the
What are tooltips, exactly? There's two kinds and the one you use has implications on the user experience, as Zell illustrates in this explainer on best practices.
Tooltip Best Practices originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the
A whole bunch of years ago, we posted on this idea here on CSS-Tricks. We figured it was time to update that and do the subject justice.
Imagine a scenario where you need to split a layout in half. Content …
Left Half and Right Half Layout – Many Different Ways originally publish
You’d be forgiven for thinking coding up both a dark and a light mode at once is a lot of work. You have to remember @media queries based on prefers-color-scheme as well as extra complications that arise when letting visitors …
Come to the light-dark() Side originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is pa
Terence Eden on using text-wrap: balance for more than headings:
But the name is, I think, slightly misleading. It doesn’t only work on text. It will work on any content. For example – I have a row of icons at
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There’s a lot of math behind fluid typography. CSS does make the math a lot easier these days, but even if you’re comfortable with that, writing the full declaration can be verbose and tough to remember. I know I often …
Clamp it! VS Code extension originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the
The difference between Popovers (i.e., the popover attribute) and Dialogs (i.e., both the
I’m utterly behind in learning about scroll-driven animations apart from the “reading progress bar” experiments all over CodePen. Well, I’m not exactly “green” on the topic; we’ve published a handful of articles on it including this neat-o one by Lee …
I totally get the goal here: make CSS more modular and scalable in WordPress. Put all your global WordPress theme styles in a single file, including variations. JSON offers a nicely structured syntax that’s easily consumable by JavaScript, thereby allowing …
Mastering theme.json: You might not need CSS originally published on
Change can certainly be scary whenever a beloved, independent software library becomes a part of a larger organization. I’m feeling a bit more excitement than concern this time around, though.
If you haven’t heard, GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform) is teaming …