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CSS Beginner

The Pseudo-Elements Everyone Forgets: ::marker and ::selection

List bullets and text-highlight colors are both fully styleable with dedicated pseudo-elements - no list-style: none rebuilds, no browser defaults clashing with your brand.

Aug 15, 2024 2 min 4,224 Read →

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CSS Beginner

Your Animations Might Be Making People Sick

Vestibular disorders make parallax and zoom animations physically unpleasant for a lot of people. Respecting the reduced-motion setting takes ten lines and is table stakes for professional work.

Aug 6, 2024 2 min 1,487 Read →

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CSS Advanced

Animating CSS Gradients (Yes, Really) with @property

Gradients famously cannot be transitioned - until you teach the browser that your custom property is a color or angle. @property makes CSS variables animatable with types.

Jul 27, 2024 2 min 2,193 Read →

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CSS Advanced

content-visibility: The Rendering Shortcut Nobody Uses

One CSS property tells the browser to skip layout and paint for off-screen sections entirely. On long pages it can cut initial rendering work dramatically - no virtualization library needed.

Jul 20, 2024 2 min 3,663 Read →

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CSS Intermediate

position: sticky Isn't Broken - Your Overflow Is

Sticky elements that refuse to stick are almost always trapped by an ancestor with overflow set, or a parent that is exactly as tall as they are. Here is the debugging checklist.

Jul 14, 2024 2 min 760 Read →

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CSS Intermediate

Fluid Typography with One Line of clamp()

Stop writing a font-size media query for every breakpoint. clamp() scales type smoothly with the viewport between a floor and a ceiling you control.

Jul 5, 2024 2 min 4,456 Read →

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CSS Intermediate

CSS Counters: Auto-Number Anything Without Touching HTML

Numbered steps, section headings like "2.3", even line numbers - CSS counts elements natively, updates automatically when content is reordered, and needs zero markup changes.

Jul 1, 2024 2 min 3,706 Read →

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CSS Beginner

:focus-visible Ends the outline: none Wars

Designers hate focus rings on click, keyboard users need them to navigate at all. :focus-visible gives each group what they want - and browsers already use it by default.

Jun 27, 2024 2 min 3,723 Read →

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CSS Beginner

Anchor Links Hiding Under Your Fixed Header? scroll-margin-top

Every site with a sticky header has the same bug: jump to #section and the heading lands underneath the header. The fix is one CSS property almost nobody knows.

Jun 22, 2024 2 min 784 Read →

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CSS Beginner

The Two-Word Fix for Ugly Headline Wrapping

A headline that wraps leaving one lonely word on the second line looks broken. text-wrap: balance makes the browser distribute the words evenly, and text-wrap: pretty fixes paragraphs.

Jun 14, 2024 2 min 807 Read →

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CSS Intermediate

CSS-Only Carousels with scroll-snap

A swipeable, momentum-friendly, accessible carousel needs no JavaScript at all. scroll-snap turns a plain overflow container into one, and it feels native because it is.

Jun 10, 2024 2 min 4,555 Read →

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CSS Beginner

Theme Every Checkbox and Radio with One CSS Line

Custom checkbox hacks - hidden inputs, pseudo-element ticks, sprite images - solved a problem that accent-color now handles in a single declaration.

Jun 5, 2024 2 min 3,820 Read →