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Direct link to the article 284: New Year, New Color, Newsletter

284: New Year, New Color, Newsletter

[Robin]: Happy new year, folks! Chris wrote his annual thank you and end of year wrap-up which breaks down everything that’s happened on CSS-Tricks this year. I love starting the year reading these things, digging into the analytics, and …

Jan 3, 2022
Direct link to the article 283: Happy Holidays!

283: Happy Holidays!

[Robin]: Happy holidays, folks! This will be the last newsletter from us this year and so we just want to say thanks for reading. We covered so many topics in this newsletter over the last twelve months that I’m not …

Dec 27, 2021
Direct link to the article 282: We shouldn’t treat accessibility like the cool new thing of the week

282: We shouldn’t treat accessibility like the cool new thing of the week

[Robin]: There’s a bit of drama in the accessibility world at the moment that’s worth taking a look at. It all hinges around a working draft of the WCAG 3. Here’s the gist: the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are …

Dec 20, 2021 (Updated on Dec 29, 2021)
Direct link to the article 281: Tabs and Spicy Drama

281: Tabs and Spicy Drama

[Robin]: If you want to make a tab component today then you have to either

  1. Make your own custom tabs — which is a faff because making them is not easy at all or,
  2. Just npm install something popular.

Although, …

Dec 13, 2021
Direct link to the article 280: One Thing

280: One Thing

Chris here filling in for Robin, your normal CSS-Tricks newsletter correspondent. And now I shall pepper you with interesting things I have in my piggy bank of links.


🙋 What is one thing people can do to make their website…
Dec 6, 2021
Direct link to the article 279: Houdini Is Not as Scary as You Think

279: Houdini Is Not as Scary as You Think

[Robin]: Here’s the deal: I’m scared of Houdini. Not the illusionist famed for jumping off waterfalls and burying himself alive, but the newish set of APIs available in CSS. That’s why I so thoroughly enjoyed this piece by George Francis …

Nov 29, 2021
Direct link to the article 278: Variable Fonts and accent-color

278: Variable Fonts and accent-color

[Robin]: Not so long ago, David Jonathan Ross (whose newsletter you should subscribe to because he sends out a free font with each edition) wrote about how variable fonts are still, oddly enough, seen as an experimental font format …

Nov 22, 2021
Direct link to the article 277: Animating Height

277: Animating Height

[Robin]: 🤔 Is it :before or ::before? I always get a little confused when writing a pseudo-element like this…

.element:before { }
.element::before { }

Spoilers: it’s ::before. Sorry to start this newsletter off with so much drama. …

Nov 15, 2021
Direct link to the article 276: Future-Friendly Layouts and Design System Vitals

276: Future-Friendly Layouts and Design System Vitals

[Robin]: I have a terrible confession to make: I still think in media queries. When I’m working on a design that requires changing the layout, I always turn to media queries to help me out. This isn’t a problem, and …

Nov 8, 2021
Direct link to the article 275: Dialog Drama, Photoshop for the Web, and CSS Scroll Shadows

275: Dialog Drama, Photoshop for the Web, and CSS Scroll Shadows

[Robin]: Chris just made The Greatest CSS Tricks Vol. I available via PDF and EPUB and wrote about the process. He walks through a few snags he hit along the way when programmatically creating the eBook version:

All this book-writing

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Nov 1, 2021 (Updated on Feb 13, 2022)
Direct link to the article 274: Landmarks, VoiceOver, and CSS Resets

274: Landmarks, VoiceOver, and CSS Resets

[Robin]: Last week we talked a bit about weird browsers and why I’m so gosh-darned excited for them. Well, this week I’ve been thinking a bit about weird tools for making websites like utopia.app:

In its simplest form, you

…
Oct 25, 2021
Direct link to the article 273: Weird Browsers

273: Weird Browsers

[Robin]: “Perhaps for what we’re losing in browser engine diversity, we’ll gain in browser UI/UX diversity” Chris quipped the other day in a post all about Bonsai. It’s an interesting little browser that’s pretty different from the browsers that …

Oct 18, 2021
Direct link to the article 272: Jams

272: Jams

[Robin]: Jamstack Conf 2021 wrapped earlier this week and I’m slowly catching up on the videos from the event. There’s lots of good stuff in there, so make sure to bookmark that for later, but here are some quick …

Oct 11, 2021
Direct link to the article 271: Who, what, why, @when

271: Who, what, why, @when

[Robin]: Here’s my photo of the week: a picture from a 2015 blog post by Paul Irish of the Wikipedia team walking through an enormous printed version of their performance timeline:

As bananas as this might seem at first, …

Oct 4, 2021
Direct link to the article 270: Where’s your head at?

270: Where’s your head at?

[Robin]: Harry Roberts has been doing a ton of interesting work when it comes to the <head element and—no! stop yawning!—there’s good reason for that; it’s the place where all performance problems begin. Or, as Harry says in “Get Your …

Sep 27, 2021
Direct link to the article 269: The Color Blue, Neat Design Patterns, and Problems with Scrolling on the Web

269: The Color Blue, Neat Design Patterns, and Problems with Scrolling on the Web

[Robin]: Let’s start this week off with something odd and fun. I stumbled upon this interesting form pattern by Hakim El Hattab:

This is neat because I’ve never thought that a focus state could have flair and a personality—I’ve always …

Sep 20, 2021
Direct link to the article 268: Just in Time CSS, the EyeDropper API, and the problem with iOS

268: Just in Time CSS, the EyeDropper API, and the problem with iOS

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[Robin]: One of the criticisms thrown at writing Atomic CSS is that it generates a ton of classes that your users don’t need. Let’s say you want to add some padding to the top of an element, like …

Sep 13, 2021
Direct link to the article 267: Everything is a Rectangle

267: Everything is a Rectangle

[Robin]: Everything on the web is a rectangle. No matter what element you choose or what CSS you write, under the hood you’re always filling up the page with squares and rectangles of various shapes and sizes. You can make …

Sep 6, 2021
Direct link to the article 266: That Classic Place for WebDev Advice, TikTok

266: That Classic Place for WebDev Advice, TikTok

[Robin]: I stumbled upon this nifty VS Code plugin called TabOut this week that lets you hit the tab key and jump between quotes in a line of code. It’s a brilliant plugin because I think it does precisely what …

Aug 30, 2021
Direct link to the article 265: The Shared Element Transitions API and Origin Trials

265: The Shared Element Transitions API and Origin Trials

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[Robin]: This week I’ve been thinking about page transitions on the web and this post from Chris earlier this year:

We can technically build page transitions now, even without single-page-app architecture, but what I want are purpose-built APIs that

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Aug 23, 2021
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