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Direct link to the article How to Safely Share Your Email Address on a Website
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How to Safely Share Your Email Address on a Website

Spammers are a huge deal nowadays. If you want to share your contact information without getting overwhelmed by spam email you need a solution. I run into this problem a few months ago. While I was researching how to solve …

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Lorenzo Bonannella on Oct 6, 2022
Direct link to the article Cool Hover Effects That Use Background Properties
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Cool Hover Effects That Use Background Properties

A while ago, Geoff wrote an article about a cool hover effect. The effect relies on a combination of CSS pseudo-elements, transforms, and transitions. A lot of comments have shown that the same effect can be done using background …

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Temani Afif on Apr 27, 2022 (Updated on May 26, 2022)
Direct link to the article 6 Creative Ideas for CSS Link Hover Effects
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6 Creative Ideas for CSS Link Hover Effects

Creating CSS link hover effects can add a bit of flair to an otherwise bland webpage. If you’ve ever found yourself stumped trying to make a slick hover effect, then I have six CSS effects for you to take and …

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Harshil Patel on Feb 15, 2022 (Updated on Sep 22, 2022)
Direct link to the article Why are hyperlinks blue?
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Why are hyperlinks blue?

Last year, Elise Blanchard did some great historical research and discovered that blue hyperlinks replaced black hyperlinks in 1993. They’ve been blue for so long now that the general advice I always hear is to keep them that way. There …

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Chris Coyier on Feb 14, 2022
Direct link to the article Adam Argyle’s Sick Mouse-Out CSS Hover Effect
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Adam Argyle’s Sick Mouse-Out CSS Hover Effect

I was killing some time browsing my CodePen feed for some eye candy and didn’t need to go past the first page before spotting a neat CSS hover effect by Adam Argyle.…

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Geoff Graham on Jan 7, 2022
Direct link to the article CSS Underlines Are Too Thin and Too Low in Chrome
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CSS Underlines Are Too Thin and Too Low in Chrome

I’ve encountered two bugs in Chrome while testing the new CSS text-decoration-thickness and text-underline-offset properties, and I want to share them with you here in this article.…

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Šime Vidas on Jan 4, 2022 (Updated on Jan 9, 2022)
Direct link to the article Buttons vs. Links
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Buttons vs. Links

There are thousands of articles out there about buttons and links on the web; the differences and how to use them properly. Hey, I don’t mind. I wrote my own as well¹.

It’s such a common mistake on …

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Chris Coyier on Nov 1, 2021
Direct link to the article On Browser-Specific URL Schemes
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On Browser-Specific URL Schemes

We’ve covered URL schemes:

A URL Scheme is like “http://…” or “ftp://…”. Those seem like a very low-level concept that you don’t have much control over, but actually, you do!

I’d call it non-trivial, but developers can register new …

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Chris Coyier on Oct 26, 2021
Direct link to the article Application-Specific Links
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Application-Specific Links

You know like https:? That’s a URL Scheme. You’re probably familiar with the concept, thanks to others that come up in front-end development, like mailto:. You can actually make your own, which is pretty cool. There …

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Chris Coyier on Aug 31, 2021
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Does that make your eye twitch a little bit? Like… it’s a typo. It should be target="_blank" with an underscore to start the value. As in…

<a target="_blank" href="https://codepen.io"Open CodePen in a New Tab
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Welp, that’s correct syntax!…

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Chris Coyier on Jun 9, 2021
Direct link to the article Create a Tag Cloud with some Simple CSS and even Simpler JavaScript
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Create a Tag Cloud with some Simple CSS and even Simpler JavaScript

I’ve always liked tag clouds. I like the UX of seeing what tags are most popular on a website by seeing the relative font size of the tags, popular tags being bigger. They seem to have fallen out of fashion, …

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Mark Conroy on Dec 28, 2020
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