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Direct link to the article 264: Inline CSS Custom Properties and Handy Dandy Tools

264: Inline CSS Custom Properties and Handy Dandy Tools

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[Robin]: Let’s say you need some margin and padding utility classes. In Tailwind, for example, you’d write some HTML like this:

<div class="pt-6"...</div

This sets the padding-top CSS property to 6 in the scale. 1 is less …

Aug 16, 2021
Direct link to the article 263: Accessibility Round Up

263: Accessibility Round Up

[Robin]: Lately in the newsletter, we’ve written about neat things we’ll be able to do with CSS in the future. CSS nesting! Container queries! Query units! New pseudo-elements! All this is very exciting but I think we need to slow …

Aug 9, 2021
Direct link to the article 262: CSS Nesting, Safari Drama, and the CSS Paint API

262: CSS Nesting, Safari Drama, and the CSS Paint API

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Nesting CSS classes is pretty handy. If you’re familiar with preprocessing languages like Sass and Less then you’re probably used to nesting like this:

.card {
  .card-text {
    font-size: 1em;
  }
  &.card-large {
    padding: 2em;
  }
  body.home & .card-title 
…
Aug 2, 2021
Direct link to the article 261: Money, Conformance, Anchoring, & Engines

261: Money, Conformance, Anchoring, & Engines

Chris here, filling in for Robin, our usually weekly correspondent. And speaking of Robin, you should subscribe to his blog, as it’s a great personal blog, which he’s moving to Astro and writing about that as just one worthy …

Jul 26, 2021
Direct link to the article 260: The Maybe Future Magic of CSS Query Units

260: The Maybe Future Magic of CSS Query Units

[Robin]: Have you ever heard of CSS query units? They aren’t a thing in CSS just yet, but let me set the stage to explain exactly how they would be useful. I only stumbled across the idea because I bumped …

Jul 19, 2021
Direct link to the article 259: How to use variable fonts

259: How to use variable fonts

I have a terrible confession to make. Send me to jail and lock away the key because, despite how much I rant about variable fonts, I’ve never really used them. I’ve read tutorials and demos and I love seeing what’s …

Jul 12, 2021
Direct link to the article 258: Good Meetings, System Colors, and Upcoming CSS Pseudo Elements

258: Good Meetings, System Colors, and Upcoming CSS Pseudo Elements

[Robin]: I’ve been in my fair share of meetings over the years; those that were unfocused and a bit rambling, those that were unclear about why they even needed to be meetings in the first place, or heck meetings that …

Jul 5, 2021
Direct link to the article 257: The One About Images

257: The One About Images

[Robin]: When it comes to web development I feel like images have been in a state of constant flux over the past few years. What’s the best way to add an image to a website? Well, that question is much …

Jun 28, 2021
Direct link to the article 256: When to use @container queries

256: When to use @container queries

[Robin]: Max Böck asks when should we use @container or @media queries?

While I think container queries will eventually replace most “low level” responsive logic, there are still a lot of good usecases for trusty media queries.

A combination

…
Jun 21, 2021
Direct link to the article 255: Thoughts on Astro

255: Thoughts on Astro

[Robin]: Exciting news! This week Astro was formally introduced — it’s a static site builder that is, well, pretty gosh darn exciting:

In Astro, you compose your website using UI components from your favorite JavaScript web framework (React, Svelte, Vue,

…
Jun 14, 2021
Direct link to the article 254: Back to Basics, Focus Styles, Morphing Text, and Build vs Buy

254: Back to Basics, Focus Styles, Morphing Text, and Build vs Buy

For some reason this week I’ve been returning to the very basics of HTML and CSS, going over a lot of blog posts that remind me that there’s still some gaps I have in my knowledge when it comes to …

Jun 7, 2021
Direct link to the article 253: 25 years of CSS, CSS font descriptors, and :nth-letter woes

253: 25 years of CSS, CSS font descriptors, and :nth-letter woes

[Robin]: Earlier this week I stumbled upon a problem where the only solution I could think of was a hypothetical one: an :nth-letter selector in CSS. It would work something like this:

.element:nth-letter(2) {
  color: red;
}

Similar to :nth-child…

May 31, 2021 (Updated on Jun 1, 2021)
Direct link to the article 252: Nightmare CSS

252: Nightmare CSS

[Robin]: Stefánia Péter made a neat website called CSS Hell. It tells us what to avoid when writing CSS and I like this note about specificity:

Developers often write overly specific selectors just to be 10000% sure their

…
May 24, 2021
Direct link to the article 251: Container Queries are the Future

251: Container Queries are the Future

[Robin]: First up this week, Una Kravets wrote about how marvelous the future will be with container queries:

Container queries will be the single biggest change in web styling since CSS3, altering our perspective of what “responsive design” means.

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May 17, 2021
Direct link to the article 250: Form Frustrations, CSS Performance, and color-contrast()

250: Form Frustrations, CSS Performance, and color-contrast()

[Robin]: This week I’ve been thinking about this post from the team at gov.uk where they write about how they made a button to show and hide the password of an input. They do that by toggling between the …

May 10, 2021 (Updated on May 11, 2021)
Direct link to the article 249: Decoding async, tree rings, and flexbox gap

249: Decoding async, tree rings, and flexbox gap

[Robin]: I thought I knew everything when it comes to responsive images, but this article by Addy Osmani sure proved me wrong. He writes about how images impact performance and how that ties into Google’s Core Web Vitals but goes …

May 3, 2021 (Updated on May 4, 2021)
Direct link to the article 248: Unlearning CSS

248: Unlearning CSS

[Robin]: Imagine you could jump into the future — let’s say ten years — and watch how you write CSS. What would that look like? How much of the language do you expect will change over that period of time? …

Apr 26, 2021
Direct link to the article 247: Container Queries and Career Laddering

247: Container Queries and Career Laddering

[Robin]: It’s been a long and winding road, but container queries are starting to arrive. They just landed in Chrome Canary. I first spotted this news on Andy Bell’s blog a few weeks ago when he made a great …

Apr 19, 2021
Direct link to the article 246: Communication is Key

246: Communication is Key

[Robin]: My favorite website at the moment is Volume, “a publishing platform for high-quality illustrated books.” It’s a place where you can kickstart book-related projects but what gets made at the end are these enormous and beautiful bits of …

Apr 12, 2021 (Updated on Apr 16, 2021)
Direct link to the article 245: Welcome to the Jam

245: Welcome to the Jam

The Space Jam website has been a time capsule. You’d head to spacejam.com suddenly be teleported back to 1996; a time before CSS, a time when using <table> elements to make grids and layouts on a page was cool, …

Apr 5, 2021
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