I recently blogged about how images are hard and it ended up being a big ol’ checklist of things that you could/should think about and implement when placing images on websites. I think it’s encouraging to see frameworks — these …
The post Frameworks Helping Image Usage appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.
Frontity is a framework for creating de-coupled (or "headless") WordPress sites. In this article, we dive into the process of spinning up such a site, with a detailed overview of the building blocks provided by Frontity and its flagship theme, Mars.
The post Mars Theme: A Deep Look at Frontity’s Headless WordPress Theme appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.
https://css-tricks.com/mars-theme-a-deep-look-at-frontitys-headless-wordpress-theme/
A fun exercise from Terence Eden. You can send an HTML file over the wire including anything a website might need without requesting any other files. CSS and JavaScript are easy, because there are https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/08/you-dont-need-external-assets-in-an-html-file/
Here’s Atif Afzal on using a that is permanently on the page where tooltips are added/removed and how they perform vastly better than plopping those same tooltips right into the . It’s not really discussed, but the reason …
The post Don’t attach tooltips to document.body appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.
https://css-tricks.com/dont-attach-tooltips-to-document-body/
I love shapes, especially colorful ones! Shapes on websites are in the same category of helpfulness as background colors, images, banners, section separators, artwork, and many more: they can help us understand context and inform our actions through affordances. A …
The post The Story Behind TryShape, a Showcase for the CSS clip-path property appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.
https://css-tricks.com/the-story-behind-tryshape-a-showcase-for
Stefan Judis notes that there is a spec for custom media queries, but seemingly no momentum on it at the moment. That lack of movement is unfortunate, as it’s almost guaranteed front-end developers all over would start using it as …
The post Can we have custom media queries, please? appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.
https://www.stefanjudis.com/notes/can-we-have-custom-media-queries-please/
When requirements read “when visible” your brain should go straight to IntersectionObserver. That’s exactly what Zach is doing here to kick off an animation when it scrolls into view. Except this animation is an SVG SMIL animation: an …
The post Fire SVG animations (SMIL) when the SVG is visible appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.
(This is a sponsored post.) I did a sponsored video the other week explaining how to build a paid subscription newsletter using WordPress (we did it on WordPress.com but it could be hosted anywhere), MailPoet (a plugin to visually …
The post Building Your Own Subscription Newsletter appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.
https://css-tricks.com/building-your-own-subscription-newsletter/
Variable fonts make it easy to create a large set of font styles from a single font file. Unfortunately, the default rendering of the and elements in browsers today is not very compatible with the wide range of …
The post Firefox’s bolder Default is a Problem for Variable Fonts appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.
https://css-tricks.com/firefoxs-bolder-default-is-a-problem-for-variable-fonts/
There is a working draft spec for CSS scoping now, a newsworthy event for the W3C. Other than a weird period where https://css-tricks.com/early-days-for-css-scoping/