CategoryCSS

June 8, 2022 — Defining a color palette and theme can be a lot of work, especially when considering contextual colors for elements’ various states. While CSS color-mix() only blends two colors together, this little function may be the key to maximizing your colors without maximum effort. Read more…

May 26, 2022 — Developing accessible products can be challenging, especially when some of the requirements are beyond the scope of development. It’s one thing to enforce alt text for images and labels for form fields, but another to define an accessible color palette. From working with design handoffs to supporting custom themes in a design system, the CSS color-contrast() function can become a cornerstone for developers in enforcing sufficiently contrasting and accessible UIs. Read more…

May 23, 2022 — CSS is constantly evolving, and some cool and useful properties either go completely unnoticed or are not talked about as much as others for some reason or another. In this article, we’ll cover a fraction of those CSS properties and selectors. Read more…

May 3, 2022 — Developers often reach for UI frameworks like Bootstrap or Material UI, hoping that they’ll save a bunch of time and quickly build a professional-looking app. Unfortunately, things rarely work out this way. In this article, Josh Comeau is going to make his case for why you probably don’t need these tools. He’ll also share some of his go-to strategies for building professional-looking applications without a design background. Read more…

March 28, 2022 — In this article, we’ll talk about how to adapt our sites to the different scenarios of a device pointer: whether it has a pointer or not, or how accurate it is. To adapt our site to those devices’ needs we’ll talk about how to properly use media queries hover, pointer, any-hover and any-pointer. Read more…

March 21, 2022 — CSS Custom Properties can be used for far more than just color, and their values update in realtime, both via display mode updates and JavaScript logic. This is powerful stuff. Eric explains how modern CSS is a powerful piece of assistive technology that can thread into it to create flexible, maintainable and adaptive digital experiences. Read more…

March 16, 2022 — This fresh new design trend has been picking up steam with the rising popularity of colorful inflated 3D graphics in web illustrations and with the latest Virtual Reality projects like “Horizon Worlds”. Let’s see if there is room for Claymorphism on the UI, and how we can create this effect with CSS. Read more…

March 3, 2022 — Dual-screen devices have been on the market for nearly three years. In that time new web platform technologies have been built with developer feedback to enable layout on the web that adapts to these devices. These web platform capabilities integrate with existing concepts, such as the viewport and media queries, so that developers and designers can spend more time ideating about how to leverage two displays to create enhanced experiences rather than learning a new set of code to build them. Read more…

March 1, 2022 — 2022 is shaping up to be a pretty great year for CSS, with a plethora of new features on the horizon. Some are already starting to land in browsers, others are likely to gain widespread browser support in 2022, while for one or two the process may be a little longer. In this article we’ll take a look at a few of them. Read more…

February 22, 2022 — How do text typing and editing work on the web? Although this process might seem straightforward, there is a lot of technical nuance behind its apparent simplicity. In this article, Ilya Medvedev will explain the challenges his company faced and the solutions they used to create a text widget in their application. He’ll also dive into how they implemented it and what they learned along the way — and how typing on the web works in general. Read more…