Happy New Year ya’ll! While we’re all thinking about taking the opportunity to do various resets on our lives, I’ll take the opportunity to mention CSS resets. As a CSS nerd, I love looking at people’s different takes on what a modern CSS reset could or should be, like I did recently. But that doesn’t […]
Rachel Andrew, blowing my mind a bit: The align-content property from the Box Alignment spec does the job, however browsers require that you make the parent element either a flex or a grid layout. While the property was specified to work in block layout, no browser had implemented it, until now. align-content in block layout So now […]
Do you have a project where every time you open up that project’s root folder in VS Code, you need to run something like npm run dev to get started working? It’s likely that spins up the compiler and server and such needed to see and work on the site. Myself, I’ve got lots of […]
The concept of event delegation in JavaScript boils down to this: rather than attach event handlers directly to the element triggering the event, attach it to an element higher up in the DOM. The event should bubble up there anyway, and you can test the event’s trigger element to ensure you’re responding to the event […]
A good point by Mayank: The multiple attribute on <select> should pretty much never be used. It’s like the polar opposite of single <select>, where instead of universal familiarity, it has universal unfamiliarity. Perhaps its only saving grace is that I have yet to encounter this attribute in any codebase. HTML: The Bad Parts
We just looked at how :has() in CSS makes quantity queries so easy, so this post by Terence Eden caught my eye, showing some trickery where you can style an entire page based on when it was published. That is, if there is something like a <time> or <meta> tag that has this information on […]
Ahmad Shadeed: Today I learned about the media scripting feature. It’s about detecting JS support via a CSS media query. Soon, we won’t need the .no-js or .js classes once this is widely available. Currently supported in Chrome 120, Firefox 119, Safari 17. Tweet
VS Code has code folding already, of course. Almost any logical bit of code is foldable. A CSS ruleset, a JavaScript function, a nested bit of JSON, any HTML element with children, etc. But if you want to make a custom section of code foldable, you can wrap in special code comments like this:
What is a quantity query? It’s a bit of CSS that allows you to style an element (and its descendants) based on how many children the element has. Example of a Quantity Query Situation Imagine a homepage currently showing 20 articles, more than you normally show. Maybe it’s a slow news day, and the lead […]
We typically think of border-radius in CSS as a way to round off corners making rectangles softer looking. Perhaps you know that you can control the four corners individually, or round them so much the element turns into a circle or oval. But border-radius can actually accept a pretty complex set of values, with multiple […]
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