We look at designing callout UI elements using CSS, incorporating leader lines and text boxes. It details setting up the HTML structure, utilizing CSS properties like offset-path and borders.
Blobs! Gooey weird shapes you can fill with any background and even animate.
Google Translate doesn’t change the `dir` of a site when translating from LTR to RTL… but you could.
A container query can contain viewport units, meaning you can compare the window vs the element and make choices.
Use the `arc` command within the `shape()` function we can draw a line that follows a circle from one point to the next, controlling the direction.
Don’t underestimate `shape()` — it’s the CSS version of SVG
Container units (e.g. cqi) are only able to reference the closest container. But if you register a custom property and set that higher up, you can get your hands on other containers units.
There was a lot of interest in our Why Can’t HTML Alone Do Includes? article. I’d like to point you to my ShopTalk Show conversation where we really get into things more with Jake Archibald.
Fun idea from the team at Immich:
Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew.
Stuff like:
Fetch requests in Cloudflare Workers use http by default, even if you explicitly specify https, which can often cause redirect loops.
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.
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