CSS

The web platform has a heaping helping of more design capability built into it than any design software does.

Did you know you can do height: stretch now in CSS? Works for width too. Dave Rupert The other day [Dave] shared a link to the new stretch keyword in CSS – and I saw a lot of questions about how it’s different from 100% (or 100vh when doing full-screen layouts). So I made a quick […]

To horizontally center an element and limit it’s width, this is easily the most common approach: That could still touch the edges of a parent container though, so if need to enforce some spacing, we’d probably do that on a parent. There is no real problem with that, but we can smash it all into […]

The whole point of auto-fit and auto-fill is that you aren’t saying how many columns to use. But if you knew how many the browser chose, you can make nice design decisions.

This is like one of those weirdly difficult quizzes about CSS. If you’ve got a <p> element sitting there in a totally normal basic HTML layout, then this CSS: What color does the <p> render as? It’s blue. You might think it’s green, as the value blah is an invalid color. If the CSS had… […]

A row of logos that animate forever perfectly and don’t have any duplicated HTML or JavaScript at all is quite a trick. Thanks modern CSS!

Best bet: just always use them.

More nuanced take: there is a few situations where using the physical property is still releavant.

It’s a complicated look! There may or may not be blurring, light refracts in tricky ways, the highlights are quite bright, and you’ve got to be very careful about text contrast accessibility.

When an image isn’t “full width”, but you want that caption underneath to wrap at the end of the image.

A look at what happens when you add a whole list of transforms to an element, and how that interacts with `animation-composition`.