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The Power of :has() in CSS
Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes
Passkeys: What the Heck and Why?
Animating CSS Grid (How To + Examples)
More Real-World Uses for :has()
Different Ways to Write CSS in React
:has is an unforgiving selector
6 Common SVG Fails (and How to Fix Them)
Ease-y Breezy: A Primer on Easing Functions
AR, VR, and a Model for 3D in HTML
Faking Min Width on a Table Column
The Power of :has() in CSS
Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post we are going to explore the use of :has() in your next web project. :has() is relatively newish but has gained popularity in the front end community by delivering control …
Chris DeMars
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Some Cross-Browser DevTools Features You Might Not Know
I spend a lot of time in DevTools, and I’m sure you do too. Sometimes I even bounce between them, especially when I’m debugging cross-browser issues. DevTools is a lot like browsers themselves — not all of the features in …
Making Calendars With Accessibility and Internationalization in Mind
Doing a quick search here on CSS-Tricks shows just how many different ways there are to approach calendars. Some show how CSS Grid can create the layout efficiently. Some attempt to bring actual data into the mix. Some …
5 Mistakes I Made When Starting My First React Project
You know what it’s like to pick up a new language or framework. Sometimes there’s great documentation to help you find your way through it. But even the best documentation doesn’t cover absolutely everything. And when you work with something …
Creating a Clock with the New CSS sin() and cos() Trigonometry Functions
CSS trigonometry functions are here! Well, they are if you’re using the latest versions of Firefox and Safari, that is. Having this sort of mathematical power in CSS opens up a whole bunch of possibilities. In this tutorial, I thought …
Managing Fonts in WordPress Block Themes
Fonts are a defining characteristic of the design of any site. That includes WordPress themes, where it’s common for theme developers to integrate a service like Google Fonts into the WordPress Customizer settings for a “classic” PHP-based theme. That hasn’t …
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Everything You Need to Know About the Gap After the List Marker
I was reading “Creative List Styling” on Google’s web.dev blog and noticed something odd in one of the code examples in the ::marker section of the article. The built-in list markers are bullets, ordinal numbers, and letters. The ::marker pseudo-element …
Šime Vidas
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Managing User Focus with :focus-visible
This is going to be the 2nd post in a small series we are doing on form accessibility. If you missed the first post, check out Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes. In this post we are going to look …
Chris DeMars
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Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes
Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post, I am going to take you through creating a simple contact form using semantic HTML and an awesome CSS pseudo class known as :focus-within. The :focus-within class allows for …
Chris DeMars
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Passkeys: What the Heck and Why?
These things called passkeys sure are making the rounds these days. They were a main attraction at W3C TPAC 2022, gained support in Safari 16, are finding their way into macOS and iOS, and are slated to …
Neal Fennimore
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How the Style Engine Generates Classes
The WordPress Style Engine generates the CSS for a block theme. Why would you want to know how an invisible process like that works? Well, just like writing CSS, you will want to ensure your code is organized and structured so that your styles properly use the CSS Cascade.
Ganesh Dahal
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An Approach to Lazy Loading Custom Elements
We’re fans of Custom Elements around here. Their design makes them particularly amenable to lazy loading, which can be a boon for performance.
Inspired by a colleague’s experiments, I recently set about writing a simple auto-loader: Whenever a custom …
