Chris Coyier

There was quite a long period of time (say 2011-2024) where if you wanted to style scrollbars in CSS, your best bet was using the pseudo elements ::-webkit-scrollbar and friends (there were about 7 of them). That got you custom scrollbars in Safari and Chrome and offshoots. Firefox never supported those. They were never really […]

Ryan Mulligan digs into a Jhey Tompkins Pen and discovers a neat little trick involving two @keyframe animations. The first is a “trigger” animation that triggers when a certain element comes into view, and flips a –trigger custom property. Via a Style Query, that triggers the actual animation. Why bother? Scroll-driven animation durations are, well… […]

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Clever idea idea from Rauno Freiberg then explained by Brad Woods. To create a line drawn on scroll effect, we render a line down the page. Then, use a clip-path to show only part of it. As the user scrolls, we translate the clip-path down the page.

One of the Top Pens of 2023 was this Glowy Hover Effect by Ines. When I was taking a look at it, it finally clicked how it works. In a nutshell, there are two copies of the same HTML layered on top of one another. The top one has a fancy colors and such, but […]

I’ve expressed my love of the Light DOM recently. In Web Components land, there are plenty of reasons to stick with it, but admittedly, there is stuff you’re giving up by not using Shadow DOM. The biggest to me is the usage of slots which is a nice way to handle HTML abstraction. Why my […]

If you’re going to fade out some text, I’m gonna call it and say the best way, while also being the easiest, is using a mask. Kilian Valkhof covered this recently, rejecting the idea of an overlay gradient, and also offering the idea of using background-clip. But mask is the clear winner. Let’s get that […]

Here’s a little thought about the precarious relationship we live with on the web. As web developers, we have very little power over the platforms we build on. We’re given what we’re given, we use what we get. We can say what we want, but it may or may not have any influence; there are […]

I was reading a great post on Lene Saile’s blog and noticed a cool little design feature on her site that highlights a line of text once you scroll to it. Here’s a video so you can see what I mean: The highlighted line is done with a <mark> element in HTML, which feels right. […]

While I’m on a thread here, here’s another thing you’re definitely going to do in your web development career: validate some data. I just linked up some stuff about form validation, for instance. TypeScript can be a part of this process. There is some degree of data safety in your application by virtue of strictly […]