My daughter had a little phase of being into Word Searches. I found it to be a cool dad moment when I was like “I’ll make you a tool to make them!”. That’s what she was into. She liked doing them OK, but she really liked the idea of making them. So my tool starts…
If I had to whittle down my favorite thing about CSS-Tricks to one thing — and like Tom Petty hits, there’s a lot of ’em — it’s that we take moments like this to hit Pause and simply write like humans. We’re a super technical site that gets into super technical web dev jargon and…
We get all excited when we get new CSS features. Well, I do anyway. It’s amazing, because sometimes it unlocks something we’ve literally never been able to do before. It’s wonderful when an artist finishes a new painting, and something to be celebrated. But this is more akin to a new color dropping, making possible…
The text-decoration-inset CSS property solves a problem that we’ve had since the beginning of the web, which is that text decorations such as underlines extend beyond the first and last characters (to the edges of the content box, to be specific), resulting in vertical misalignment. CodePen Embed Fallback I say it’s a problem “we’ve” had…
This is an appreciation post for the Cloud Four Blog. It’s one of those must-subscribes. I find myself adding almost every post they put out to my archive of posts to dig into. So since I’m overflowing with them a bit, and there is a hot-off-the-presses one, I figured I’d share that and a bunch…
Introduction Apps are more complex than ever. You have more tools, APIs, and managed services than you can count, but all that convenience brings new challenges. Microservices sprawl, dependency chains, and flaky CI pipelines can turn simple updates into landmines. How do you scale without everything breaking? How do you stay compliant without drowning in…
Welcome to the first ever What’s !important, a roundup of the best CSS and web development news from the last two weeks. If you’re pressed for time (who isn’t?) or you just can’t stand missing out on anything CSS-related, this is the place to recap: the best CSS/web dev articles from around the web, interesting announcements…
Ever feel like you’re doing the same boring computer tasks over and over? Clicking through folders to hunt for a file. Manually skimming massive logs for one error message. Running the same backup script by hand every Friday. What if you could get that time back? The secret isn’t working harder—it’s working smarter, and it’s…
It’s interesting to me to think about during a lot of the web’s evolution, there were many different browser engines (more than there are now) and they mostly just agreed-on-paper to do the same stuff. We focus on how different things could be cross-browser back then, which is true, but mostly it all worked pretty…
The CSS animation-timeline property accepts a view() function which, in turn, returns a timeline of how much of an element is visible in the part of a scroll container that’s viewable (formally known as a scrollport). In other words, rather than letting an animation run a linear progression based on how much time has elapsed,…