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Direct link to the article A Complete Guide to Flexbox
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A Complete Guide to Flexbox

Our comprehensive guide to CSS flexbox layout. This complete guide explains everything about flexbox, focusing on all the different possible properties for the parent element (the flex container) and the child elements (the flex items). It also includes history, demos, patterns, and a browser support chart.
Apr 8, 2013 (Updated on May 20, 2024)
Direct link to the article Media Queries for Standard Devices

Media Queries for Standard Devices

This page lists a ton of different devices and media queries that would specifically target that device. That's probably not generally a great practice, but it is helpful to know what the dimensions for all these devices are in a CSS context.
Oct 8, 2010 (Updated on Sep 30, 2022)
Direct link to the article A Complete Guide to the Table Element
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A Complete Guide to the Table Element

The <table> element in HTML is used for displaying tabular data. You can think of it as a way to describe and display data that would make sense in spreadsheet software. Essentially: columns and rows. In this article, we’re going …

Sep 19, 2013 (Updated on Nov 18, 2022)
Direct link to the article Centering in CSS: A Complete Guide
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Centering in CSS: A Complete Guide

Centering things in CSS is the poster child of CSS complaining. Why does it have to be so hard? They jeer. I think the issue isn’t that it’s difficult to do, but in that there so many different ways of …

Sep 2, 2014 (Updated on Aug 2, 2021)
Direct link to the article A Complete Guide to Dark Mode on the Web
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A Complete Guide to Dark Mode on the Web

“Dark mode” is defined as a color scheme that uses light-colored text and other UI elements on a dark-colored background. Dark mode, dark theme, black mode, night mode… they all refer to and mean the same thing: a mostly-dark interface rather than a mostly-light interface.
Jul 1, 2020 (Updated on Oct 24, 2021)
Direct link to the article A Complete Guide to SVG Fallbacks
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A Complete Guide to SVG Fallbacks

If you're using SVG and are worried about unsupported environments, this is the guide for you. There is no single solution, since how you use SVG dictates the fallback.
May 4, 2015 (Updated on Dec 28, 2020)
Direct link to the article A Complete Guide to CSS Cascade Layers
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A Complete Guide to CSS Cascade Layers

This is your complete guide to CSS cascade layers, a CSS feature that allows us to define explicit contained layers of specificity, so that we have full control over which styles take priority in a project without relying on specificity …

Feb 21, 2022 (Updated on Jun 3, 2024)
Direct link to the article A Complete Guide to Data Attributes
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A Complete Guide to Data Attributes

Everything you ever wanted to know about data attributes in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Feb 17, 2020 (Updated on Jun 13, 2024)
Direct link to the article A Nerd’s Guide to Color on the Web
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A Nerd’s Guide to Color on the Web

There are a lot of ways to work with color on the web. I think it’s helpful to understand the mechanics behind what you’re using, and color is no exception. Let’s delve into some of the technical details of color …

Sep 12, 2016 (Updated on Sep 20, 2022)
Direct link to the article A Complete Guide to CSS Functions
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A Complete Guide to CSS Functions

Like any other programming language, CSS has functions. They can be inserted where you’d place a value, or in some cases, accompanying another value declaration.
May 4, 2020 (Updated on Oct 15, 2021)
Direct link to the article A Complete Guide to Custom Properties
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A Complete Guide to Custom Properties

Everything important and useful to know about CSS Custom Properties. Like that they are often referred to as "CSS Variables" but that's not their real name.
Apr 27, 2021 (Updated on May 23, 2024)
Direct link to the article A Complete Guide to Links and Buttons
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A Complete Guide to Links and Buttons

Our complete guide to links, buttons, and button-like inputs in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Feb 14, 2020 (Updated on Feb 22, 2022)
Direct link to the article A Complete Guide to CSS Gradients

A Complete Guide to CSS Gradients

Like how you can use the background-color property in CSS to declare a solid color background, you can use the background-image property not only to declare image files as backgrounds but gradients as well. Using CSS gradients is better for control and performance than using an actual image (of a gradient) file.
Nov 16, 2020 (Updated on Oct 25, 2022)
Direct link to the article A Guide to the Responsive Images Syntax in HTML
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A Guide to the Responsive Images Syntax in HTML

This guide is about the HTML syntax for responsive images (and a little bit of CSS for good measure). We'll go over srcset and , plus a whole bunch of things to consider to help you get the best performance and design control from your images.
May 26, 2020 (Updated on Aug 25, 2022)
Direct link to the article A Guide to Console Commands
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A Guide to Console Commands

The developer’s debugging console has been available in one form or another in web browsers for many years. Starting out as a means for errors to be reported to the developer, its capabilities have increased in many ways; such as …

Feb 20, 2020 (Updated on Jun 17, 2020)
Direct link to the article CSS Length Units
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CSS Length Units

A comprehensive guide covering nine types of lengths that CSS uses to size elements in terms of dimensions, space, time, and even sound.
Jun 3, 2024 (Updated on Jun 18, 2024)
Direct link to the article A Complete Guide to CSS Media Queries
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A Complete Guide to CSS Media Queries

Media queries can modify the appearance (and even behavior) of a website or app based on a matched set of conditions about the user's device, browser or system settings.
Oct 2, 2020 (Updated on May 1, 2024)
Direct link to the article A Complete Guide to calc() in CSS
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A Complete Guide to calc() in CSS

CSS has a special calc() function for doing basic math. In this guide, let’s cover just about everything there is to know about this very useful function. …

Mar 17, 2020 (Updated on Nov 21, 2021)
Direct link to the article CSS Container Queries
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CSS Container Queries

The main idea of CSS Container Queries is to register an element as a “container” and apply styles to other elements when the container element meets certain conditions.
Jun 10, 2024 (Updated on Jun 14, 2024)
Direct link to the article Learn jQuery from Scratch

Learn jQuery from Scratch

This series will take you from zero to being confident in writing and working with jQuery and JavaScript.…

Aug 22, 2013 (Updated on Jan 18, 2019)
Direct link to the article SVG Properties and CSS

SVG Properties and CSS

SVG has its own set of elements, attributes and properties to the extent that inline SVG code can get long and complex. By leveraging CSS and some of the forthcoming features of the SVG 2 specification, we can reduce that code for cleaner markup.
May 13, 2019 (Updated on Dec 19, 2022)
Direct link to the article A Complete Guide to CSS Grid
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A Complete Guide to CSS Grid

Our comprehensive guide to CSS grid, focusing on all the settings both for the grid parent container and the grid child elements.
May 12, 2021 (Updated on Feb 9, 2023)

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