Tag: css

What You Need to Know About CSS Combinators

What you need to know about CSS combinators

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CSS combinators come in handy when you want to alter HTML you don’t have access to or pinpoint the section you want to style with high accuracy. In this tutorial, learn how to style your HTML with CSS combinators.

Chidume Nnamdi
May 26, 2020 ⋅ 3 min read

Tailwind CSS vs. Tachyons

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In this article, we’ll take a look at the strengths and weaknesses of two of the most popular utility-first CSS frameworks out there.

Anjolaoluwa Adebayo-Oyetoro
May 13, 2020 ⋅ 6 min read
Styling numbered lists with CSS counters

Styling numbered lists with CSS counters

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Ordered lists are a great way to make your app or website more consumable and appealing to the user’s eye. Learn how to use CSS counters to customize the way numbers look in your ordered lists.

Supun Kavinda
May 12, 2020 ⋅ 4 min read

Flexible layouts without media queries

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In this article, I will look at how we can create flexible layout components with CSS Grid and math functions to gain more control over the hypothetical instructions we inscribe into our components.

Dannie Vinther
Apr 16, 2020 ⋅ 8 min read
5 Reasons Why People Aren't Using New CSS Features

5 reasons why people aren’t using new CSS features

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Although new CSS features and properties are developed and released every year, web developers rarely learn them or use them in their projects. This is a problem because the CSS Working Group, which maintains and improves CSS specs, measures success by looking at a feature’s adoption rate.

Nathan Sebhastian
Apr 1, 2020 ⋅ 3 min read

How Hucssley utility classes can improve frontend development

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Huccsley is an exciting technology that could make waves in web development once it leaves beta and it will be exciting to see how it will help developers create great experiences using its wide suite of tools.

Austin Roy Omondi
Apr 1, 2020 ⋅ 6 min read

A beginner’s guide to programming for CSS with Sass

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In this article, we’ll take a look at ways you can write programmable logic in CSS.

Joe Casabona
Mar 19, 2020 ⋅ 5 min read
An image illustrating CSS scroll snap.

How to use CSS Scroll Snap

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This tutorial shows you how to save a ton of time when creating a scroll snap for your website by using CSS rather than JavaScript.

Nada Rifki
Mar 9, 2020 ⋅ 2 min read

When CSS doesn’t do anything

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You know the feeling when you’re trying to achieve some styling or layout with CSS and it just won’t work? Enter, Inactive CSS in Firefox.

Patrick Brosset
Mar 9, 2020 ⋅ 7 min read
Variable Fonts: Is the Performance Trade-Off Worth It?

Variable fonts: Is the performance trade-off worth it?

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Although variable font files are huge, they typically improve performance because they eliminate the need to use multiple font files.

Anna Monus
Mar 5, 2020 ⋅ 9 min read

CSS Grid or CSS frameworks?

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In this post, we will take a look at when you should use CSS Grid and when you should use CSS frameworks.

Kasra Khosravi
Mar 4, 2020 ⋅ 8 min read
How to create randomly generated backgrounds with the CSS Paint API

How to create randomly generated backgrounds with the CSS Paint API

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Learn how to create randomly generated backgrounds and other dynamic images using Houdini’s new CSS Paint API.

Supun Kavinda
Mar 3, 2020 ⋅ 5 min read