How I Made an Icon System Out of CSS Custom Properties
SVG is the best format for icons on a website, there is no doubt about that. It allows you to have sharp icons no matter the screen pixel density, you can change the styles of the SVG on hover …
Perfect Tooltips With CSS Clipping and Masking
Clipping and masking have been around for a while now in CSS and even have pretty decent browser support. I recently worked on a project that needed to use a clipping technique for tooltips showing above links in text.…
How to Animate the Details Element Using WAAPI
Animating accordions in JavaScript has been one of the most asked animations on websites. Fun fact: jQuery’s slideDown() function was already available in the first version in 2006.
In this article, we will see how you can animate the native …
Playing With Particles Using the Web Animations API
When it comes to motion and animations, there is probably nothing I love more than particles. This is why every time I explore new technologies I always end up creating demos with as many particles as I can.
In this …
Simulating Mouse Movement
If you’ve ever had to display an interactive animation during a live talk or a class, then you may know that it’s not always easy to interact with your slides and while talking.
This happened to me when I needed …
The trick to viewport units on mobile
Viewport units have always been controversial and some of that is because of how mobile browsers have made things more complicated by having their own opinions about how to implement them.
Case in point: should the scrollbar be taken into …
Creating a Panning Effect for SVG
Earlier this month on the Animation at Work Slack, we had a discussion about finding a way to let users pan inside an SVG.…
