The new CSS sibling-index() (and -count()) functions are perfect for staggered timing affects. This goes a little step further staggering both before and after a selected element.
Most folks use one of the big browsers that we’ve all heard of. But there are more and more niche browsers built upon those big open source engines that differentiate themselves in interesting ways.
Sometimes pretty simple HTML elements have a lot of things to consider and take care of, from interactivity, styling, accessibility, and more.
Do you need it? Not really, custom properties are probably a better bet. But it still has a bit of utility and it’s fun to think about.
Now that we’re starting to be able to apply types (like `number`) to values of attributes we pull of HTML elements in CSS, doing interesting things with
Using hard color stops with `repeating-conic-gradient()` and the double-stop syntax, we can pretty easily create a burst background. Then get fancier.
These buttons animate from a square to an arrow, and we look at three different ways to do it, each with their own upsides.
You might as well really understand height and Josh Comeau has your back here. It’s really quite different than width and perhaps less intuitive. Plus when grid and flexbox get involved, things change.
We’ve been trying to make the point around here that the new shape() in CSS is awesome. It’s the powerful <path> in SVG ported to CSS so it can use actual units. It’s probably how path() should have ported to begin with, but c’est la vie.
I’ll make the point in this demo. Resize those containers and see how the clip-path responds (path() cannot be fluid, shape() can).
Are SVG <path>s 1-to-1 convertible to shape(), though? Apparently they are! (!!). Two people have already built converters and from what I’ve tested they work great.
A very interesting aspect of the AI smashing its way into every software product known to man, is how it’s integrated. What does it look like? What does it do? Are we allowed to control it? UX patterns are evolving around this. In coding tools, I’ve felt the bar being turned up on “anticipate what I’m doing and offer help”. Personally I’ve gone from, hey that’s nice thanks to woah woah woah, chill out, you’re getting in my way.
I’m sure this will be fascinating to watch for a long time to come. For example, “Subtle Mode” in Zed gets AI more “out of your face” and if you want to see a suggestion, you press a button. I love that idea. But I also understand Kojo Osei’s point here: there should be no AI button.
I just complained that color inputs couldn’t deal in P3 colors. Looks like Safari is the first-mover on supporting that, as well as alpha:
<input
type="color"
value="oklab(59% 0.1 0.1 / 0.5)"
colorspace="display-p3"
alpha
>Code language: HTML, XML (xml)I was able to make a quick demo and see it on iOS:
Under the Sliders tab, it’s still just R G & B, but it seems to me you can produce colors still in the P3 space. And if you’ve set the color space, it gives you a P3 hex code there (which I didn’t even know was a thing honestly). The actual value that you get is like: color(display-p3 0.921957 0.31855 0.969179). Which I guess is fine? Just don’t expect to get out a color in the same format you put in.
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