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Andy Bell joins me to talk through his CSS methodology he calls CUBE CSS. That’s Composition, Utility, Block, and Exception.…

One of the whole points of the Shadow DOM is that it provides encapsulation. No styles out, no styles in. But there are ways “through” the Shadow DOM, and one of them that is pretty cool and useful is using …

This is the last video in our little series on using Notion. We’ve covered how Notion is great for working on web development teams. But another thing that makes Notion great is that it’s useful for yourself too. …

Snook published an article titled “Overlapping Header with CSS Grid” where he looks at a header design pattern that I feel transcends trends and has been popular forever. The idea is that the header is oversized and the …

This is the second video in 3-video series on using Notion. In Part 1 we covered a lot of ground on what Notion is how it’s great for any team, and web development teams in particular.

In this video, …

I’m a big fan of Notion, particularly for keeping teams in sync. I work on teams of developers, and I find it works particularly well for that. If I had to sum it up really quickly, I’d tell Notion …

Masking in CSS is one way to hide parts of the element and show others. Another is clip-path, but let’s not focus on that today. “Masks are images; Clips are paths” is one way to think about the difference…

The fact that lists render their markers outside their own box (by default) is slightly weird. Any hidden overflow or overhanging off the edge of the browser will hide them. Moving them inside the box feels better and safer, but …

It’s a bonafide phenomenon!

I’m talking about the idea of image hosting services that allow you to manipulate the URL to the image in order to transform it. In other words, if you need multiple copies of an …

SFC as in “Single File Component” which is something that Vue offers and Vue people seem to love. I’ve written very little Vue in my days, but I’m a fan! We recently started supporting Vue SFC’s on CodePen, so this …

I had a dumb little issue the other day where a nested list didn’t quite have the right spacing. I was only adding margin-bottom on the list elements and the lists themselves, but that meant there was no space between …

Fair warning: I’m no expert on this stuff, I’m just playing around with video on the web and addressing some issues I have when showing off video clips in blog posts.

I have an iOS simulator up in this video, …

Using CSS grid to make a grid, is, well, the whole point. But what if you want all those grid items to maintain an aspect ratio, like a 1:1 square? It’s possible, but it involves a little trickery. In this …

I wanted to make sure you understand exactly what Percy can do for you, hence the title. When you commit a change to your websites Git repo, like in a Pull Request workflow most of us live in, Percy will …

This is the basics of how I work locally with a WordPress site, and then getting it to production.

Flywheel is a sponsor of CSS-Tricks, and I’m glad they are because they make great products. Flywheel is at the heart …

Matt Perry from Framer and I take a look at the React animation library Framer Motion.

First, we take a look at how simple the API is. You control everything very declaratively through props on elements in your JSX. …

(This is a sponsored video I worked on between us at CSS-Tricks and Webflow. I think Webflow is a fascinating product for building websites that is, in my opinion, in a category all to itself at the moment. It …

There is a feature of Chrome DevTools that lets you:

1. See the code of any given resource the current web page is using (like CSS and JavaScript).
2. “Pretty Print” it (format it for readability)
3. Save it to disk
4. Use that

And by “we’re”, I mean us, front-end developers ;)

Here’s the website that goes with this talk.

This is a talk I put together where I postulate that, over time, the breadth of what front-end developers are able to do …

I find that 98% of all my SVG usage comes from pre-created SVG files or vector art in some design software that I ultimately export as SVG. Not super often am I hand-manipulating the coordinates of things in the SVG …