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 […]
We can pass the mouse position from JavaScript to CSS and use it to make unusual and playful effects.
Got an old “modal” design? Now might be the time to upgrade it to a
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.
When I first looked at the new color contract function in CSS, the words were reversed, so that’s notable. It’s contrast-color() now, and starting it’s life in Safari Technology Preview. Now it only takes one argument, a color, and you get back either black or white (rather than providing your own color choices). Once this […]
Rachel Andrew notes an excellent new feature of CSS that Chrome is dropping first: reading-flow and reading-order. There are CSS features that can move elements to places that make what the tabbing order (thus “reading order”) super different than what the visual order of the elements is. This can be an awkward jumpy-aroundy experience and […]
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.
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