Scrolling

It maintains space for where a scrollbar would be, whether there actually is one or not. But do you always want that?

CSS has a feature called scroll snapping. A lot of the demos and examples, rightfully so, focus around things that benefit highly from it. For instance, an image slider, carousel, or grid of things that just beg to be aligned after scrolling. But you don’t have to be in such a strict and rigid situation […]

I just wrote about the <dialog> element, with some basic usage and things to watch for. It’s a great addition to the web platform. Here’s another interesting thing we can do, connecting it to another one of my favorite new things on the web platform: :has(). (You can see I’ve been pretty into it lately.) […]

The page scrollbar in web browsers serves a useful function: The vertical position of the scrollbar thumb tells the user where they are in the page (their scroll position), while the size (height) of the scrollbar thumb tells them roughly how long the page is. Because scrollbars are useful, they should be clearly visible. On […]

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 […]

Clever idea idea from Rauno Freiberg then explained by Brad Woods. To create a line drawn on scroll effect, we render a line down the page. Then, use a clip-path to show only part of it. As the user scrolls, we translate the clip-path down the page.