The CSS :has() pseudo class is rolling out in many browsers with Chrome and Safari already fully supporting it. It’s often referred to it as “the parent selector” — as in, we can select style a parent element from a …
We’ve looked at spinners. We’ve looked at dots. Now we’re going to tackle another common pattern for loaders: bars. And we’re going to do the same thing in this third article of the series as we have the others …
Calendars, shopping carts, galleries, file explorers, and online libraries are some situations where selectable items are shown in grids (i.e. square lattices). You know, even those security checks that ask you to select all images with crosswalks or whatever.…
Making CSS-only loaders is one of my favorite tasks. It’s always satisfying to look at those infinite animations. And, of course, there are lots of techniques and approaches to make them — no need to look further than CodePen to …
A bonafide CSS trick if there ever was one! @ShadowShahriar created a CodePen demo that uses pseudo-elements to place commas between list items that are displayed inline, and the result is a natural-looking complete sentence with proper punctuation.…
When you change the font-weight of a font, the text will typically cause a bit of a layout shift. That’s because bold text is often larger and takes up more space. Sometimes that doesn’t matter, like a vertical stack of …
To use the Web Animations API (e.g. el.animate()) you need a reference to a DOM element to target. So, how do you use it on pseudo-elements, which don’t really offer a direct reference? Dan Wilson covers a (newish?) part …
Here’s a container with some child elements:
<div class="container">
<div>item</div>
<div>item</div>
<div>item</div>
</div>If I do:
.container::before {
content: "x"
}I’m essentially doing:
<div class="container">
[[[ ::before psuedo-element here ]]]
<div>item</div>
<div>item</div>
<div>item</div>
</div>Which will behave just like …
There is a content property in CSS that’s made to use in tandem with the ::before and ::after pseudo elements. It injects content into the element.
Here’s an example:
<div
data-done="✅"
class="email">
[email protected]
</div>.email::before {
content: attr(data-done) " Email: Perhaps you know this one: if any part of a selector is invalid, it invalidates the whole selector. For example:
div, span::butt {
background: red;
}Even though div is a perfectly valid selector, span:butt is not, thus the entire …
