Stefan Judis covered this recently, and like Stefan, I first heard of the safe keyword in CSS from Rachel Andrews at an AEA conference years ago. It’s used in addition to other alignment keywords in layout like this for example: The extra value safe here is essentially saying “don’t let the alignment force a situation […]
Why should you spend the time making your web apps accessible? Not only are there legal and business reasons, but the biggest reason is it’s a civil right – we want *everyone* to be able to access our websites and web apps! “An inaccessible website can exclude people just as much as steps at an entrance to a physical location.” ~ADA.gov […]
If you find yourself removing a border from an element that has a border and are tempted to use border: 0 , border: none, or outline: none, I’d urge you to stop for a moment and reconsider. It’s like the old G.K. Chesterton saying about fences: Do not remove a fence until you know why […]
A Frontend Masters personal account is $390/year. It’s an investment. It can be an investment in yourself if you’re looking for work, but if you’re already working, it can be an investment from that company that is good for everyone. A smart company with teams of developers should take advantage of buying a team account, […]
I admit I went pretty far in my web development career without understanding that Streamed HTML is a thing. And while I’m admitting things, I’m still not 100% sure when it’s an ideal solution and how best to take advantage of it. But knowing is half the battle sometimes, so let me get into some […]
We left off in a decent place, but there was some missing functionality that we wanted all along. Editing To-Dos The interaction we decided on for editing is to double-click the todo. This will turn the to-do, in place, into an editable input. Then you hit enter (e.g. submit) or leave the input (e.g. blur) […]
Safari 17.4 dropped an interesting an unexpected feature, a native UI toggle switch control! It’s so new it’s not even in the HTML spec yet. While that might be a blocker for your project, you can use it today as a progressive enhancement on top of the standard checkbox input.
Dropdowns, menus, tooltips, comboboxes, toasts — the popover attribute will make building a large variety of UI components easier. The popover attribute can be used on any HTML element, so you have the flexibility to choose whichever element is most appropriate semantically for each particular use case. Unlike a dialog, a popover is always non-modal […]
You want a quick web performance win at work that’s sure to get you a promotion? Want it to only take five minutes? Then I got you. Capo.js is a tool to get your <head> in order. It’s based on some research by Harry Roberts that shows how something seemingly insignificant as the elements in […]
Creating unusual shapes is always a fun exercise and a good way to practice your CSS skills. One might argue that SVG is better for this job, but nowadays we have a lot of new CSS tricks that allow us to create shapes with a clean and optimized code. Through this two-article series, we will […]
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