🏠 They say an average person lives in 11 homes in their lifetime. What’s your number? (I’m currently at 8🤪) — CanadianPam (@PamelaApostolo1) May 1, 2021 Hmmmmm! I’m not even sure what house I lived in when I was born. … The post Number of Homes appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter. https://css-tricks.com/number-of-homes/
A bona fide CSS trick from Kirupa Chinnathambi here. To match a colored shadow with the colors in the background-image of an element, you inherit the background in a pseudo-element, kick it behind the original, then blur and filter it. …
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https://www.kirupa.com/html5/creating_colorful_smart_shadows.htm
I was just chatting with Eric Meyer the other day and I remembered an Eric Meyer story from my formative years. I wrote a blog post about CSS specificity, and Eric took the time to point out the misleading nature …
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In June of 2006, web developers and designers from around the world came to London for the second annual @media conference. The first had been a huge success, and @media 2006 had even more promise. Its speaker lineup was pulled …
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I hope people think of SVG as a vector format that is good for drawing things. There is plenty more to know, but here’s one more: SVG is good for composition. You draw things at very specific coordinates …
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I’m willing to bet you know WebPageTest. It is the premier tool in the toolbox of web performance people. Maybe you didn’t know that WebPageTest was a side project of one fella, Patrick Meenan, for most of its lifetime, …
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Yay, it’s here! Safari 14.1 reportedly adds support for the gap property in flexbox layouts. We’ve had grid-gap support for some time, but true to its name, it’s limited to grid layouts. Now we can use gap in either type …
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Jim Nielsen quoting Eric Bailey:
He references an example on Twitter where someone noted you can use the element to “create a native HTML accordion,” to which someone responded: “this works without Bootstrap? 🤯” What’s the problem here? From
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Jenny B Kowalski has been posting a-letter-a-day on Instagram exploring multi-axis variable/responsive letterforms. They are very clever in that one of the axes controls an uppercase-to-lowercase conversion, literally morphing the shape of the letters from an uppercase version to a …
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Labels are a feature that have existed since the creation of JavaScript. They aren’t new! I don’t think all that many people know about them and I’d even argue they are a bit confusing. But, as we’ll see, labels can …
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