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I’m a fan of just chucking SVG icons right into the HTML where you need them: This has lots of benefits, like instant loading with no additional requests, and is 100% styleable, including all the internal parts (i.e. multicolor icons). But, putting your SVG icons in CSS can be advantageous too. This converter is handy. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Layout recalculations, or “reflows”, happen when we change a layout-related property, such as an element’s width, height, or margin. Reflows can happen accidentally or on purpose.   For instance, you might want to have a feature that switches from a grid view to a list view.  In that case, triggering a reflow is essential for […]

HTML has a color input that is pretty decent: That’s it. Support across the board. However, browsers can and do have different approaches to what happens when the input is used. Ultimately: the user activates the input, may choose a color using the provided UI, and the color becomes the inputs value. It’s not my […]