I’ve used border-image regularly. Yet, it remains one of the most underused CSS tools, and I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why. Is it possible that people steer clear of border-image because its syntax is awkward and unintuitive? Perhaps it’s because most explanations don’t solve the type of creative implementation problems that most people need to solve. Most likely, it’s both.
Revisiting CSS border-image originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
I’ve seen a handful of recent posts talking about the utility of the :is() relational pseudo-selector. No need to delve into the details other than to say it can help make compound selectors a lot more readable.
:is(section, article, aside, …
Quick Reminder That :is() and :where() Are Basically the Same With One Key Difference originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Going from the most basic ways to style lists directly in HTML to advanced customization techniques that are even capable of making things that aren't lists look like lists.
Styling Counters in CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Scott Jehl released a course called Web Components Demystified. This is my full set of notes from Scott's course. You'll still want to take the course on your own, and I encourage you to because Scott is an excellent teacher who makes all of this stuff extremely accessible, even to noobs like me.
Web Components Demystified originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
With Astro, we can generate most of our site during our build, but have a small bit of server-side code that can handle search functionality using something like Fuse.js. In this demo, we’ll use Fuse to search through a set of personal “bookmarks” that are generated at build time, but return back proper results from a server call.
Powering Search With Astro Actions and Fuse.js originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
The videos from Smashing Magazine's recent event on accessibility were just posted the other day. I was invited to host the panel discussion with the speakers, including a couple of personal heroes of mine, Stéphanie Walter and Sarah Fossheim. But I was just as stoked to meet Kardo Ayoub who shared his deeply personal story as a designer with a major visual impairment.
Smashing Meets Accessibility originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
In this second article of a two-part series, Temani Afif demonstrates an alternative approach to creating the star rating component from the first article using experimental scroll-driven animations rather than using the border-image property.
A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 2) originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
This easily qualifies as a "gotcha" in CSS and is a good reminder that the cascade doesn't know everything all at the same time. If a custom property is invalid, the cascade won't ignore it, and it gets evaluated, which invalidates the declaration.
Maybe don’t use custom properties in shorthand properties originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Preethi demonstrates how to make a user interface to group selected items using CSS Grid using two different methods: the auto-fill keyword for stable layouts and the span keyword for flexible arrangements.
Grouping Selection List Items Together With CSS Grid originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Arguments?! Return values?! What's crazier, you can use functions right now in Chrome Canary! So, after reading and playing around, here are my key insights on what you need to know about CSS Functions.
Functions in CSS?! originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
In this article, you'll learn how to make a full-on star rating component out of nothing but a single input element and vanilla CSS.
A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 1) originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Now that we're 5+ years into the details element, we know more about it than ever before. I thought I'd round that information up so it's in one place I can reference in the future without having to search the site — and other sites — to find it.
Using & Styling the Details Element originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
The grain of truth was that even if you love your job, it can’t love you back. Yet what I’m hooked on isn’t one job, but the power of code and language.
Applying the Web Dev Mindset to Dealing With Life Challenges originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
The View Transitions API is more a set of features than it is about any one particular thing. And it gets complex fast. But in this post, we’ll cover a couple ways to dip your toes into the waters without having to dive in head-first.
Toe Dipping Into View Transitions originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
I know, super niche, but it could be any loop, really. The challenge is having multiple tooltips on the same page that make use of the Popover API for toggling goodness and CSS Anchor Positioning for attaching a tooltip to its respective anchor element.
Working With Multiple CSS Anchors and Popovers Inside the WordPress Loop originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.