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Say Hello to selectmenu, a Fully Style-able select Element
I want to introduce you to a new, experimental form control called <selectmenu>. We’ll get deep into it, including how much easier it is to style than a traditional <select> element. But first, let’s fill in some context …
Build Membership Businesses with Memberful
What would your business be like if you sold memberships? It might be more than fun to think about, in fact, it might just be transformative. With membership, would you include little add-ons or perks for your biggest fans? Or …
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7 Fresh Links on Performance For March 2022
I have a handful of good links to articles about performance that are burning a hole in my bookmarks folder, and wanna drop them here to share.…
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How to Make a “Raise the Curtains” Effect in CSS
“Raise the curtains” is what I call an effect where the background goes from dark to light on scroll, and the content on top also goes from light to dark while in a sticky position.…
CSS Custom Highlight API: The Future of Highlighting Text Ranges on the Web
Styling ranges of text in software is a very useful thing to be able to do. Thankfully, we have the CSS Custom Highlight API to look forward to because it represents the future of styling text ranges on the web.…
Ahmad Shadeed: Use Cases For CSS fit-content
Ahmad Shadeed covers the CSS fit-content sizing keyword. It’s useful! It just doesn’t come up super often. I find myself using min-content a lot more, like when setting up the height of a grid-template-row.
The fit-content keyword is actually …
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IE Down, Edge Up… Global Browser Usage Stats Are for Cocktail Parties and Conference Slides
I enjoy articles like Hartley Charlton’s TOYOTA 4RUNNER Toyota Exhaust RH 3.0L valve and pipe 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 It’s juicy! We know these massive players in the browser market care very much about their market share, so when …
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Web Component Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements are Easier Than You Think
We’ve discussed a lot about the internals of using CSS in this ongoing series on web components, but there are a few special pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes that, like good friends, willingly smell your possibly halitotic breath before you go …
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Trailing Slashes on URLs: Contentious or Settled?
A fun deep dive from Zach. Do you have an opinion on which you should use?
1) https://website.com/foo/
2) https://websites.com/fooThe first option has a “trailing slash.” The second does not.
I’ve always preferred this thinking: you use a trailing …
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When to Avoid the text-decoration Shorthand Property
In my recent article about CSS underline bugs in Chrome, I discussed text-decoration-thickness and text-underline-offset, two relatively new and widely-supported CSS properties that give us more control over the styling of underlines.
Let me demonstrate the usefulness of …
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Manuel Matuzovic’s CSS Specificity Demo
If you’re looking for a primer on CSS specificity, we’ve got that. And if you’re trying to get ahead of the game, you should be aware of CSS Cascade Layers as well.…
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