CSS

Danila Fedorin’s article about unique UX features in blogs is fun. Here’s some extra thoughts, resources, and opinions.

Having a named block of styles to apply in CSS can be useful, and newfangled Style Queries are pretty close to that. We look at one use case here, how Sass did mixins better, and hope for a native solution.

CSS allows setting different overflow behaviors for x and y directions. It doesn’t actually work with the `hidden` value, but it does with `clip`!

CSS has linear, radial, and conic gradients, that can all do interesting and complex things… but not quite this, at least not on their own: That’s what we’ve been calling a Mesh Gradient. There are all sorts of ways to pull it off, like using multiple backgrounds with radial gradients placed at different locations, or […]

Philip Walton for Google responded to our question We’ve Got Container Queries Now, But Are We Actually Using Them? There are a variety of reasons why usage of them seems to be low, but certainly developers worried about browser support is still a factor. The biggest quoted concern is Safari 15, which is entirely reasonable. […]

The navigation in this game works with the arrow keys, which is made possible with scroll driven animations, faked collision detection, and maintaining state with CSS custom properties.

The website has the most control, since that’s what applies the CSS. But browsers also have a Dark/Light/System setting, and that can fall through to the OS/Device.

I’m such a :has() selector fanboy in CSS. We’ve covered it many times. But Bruce Lawson goes as far as to call it “The God Selector” because: [It] is omnipotent because it doesn’t require any structural relationship between the thing being checked and the thing being styled. In other words, you can select any element […]

This article explores creating a typographic effect that “reveals” text in an interesting animated way.

Especially on mobile, the slide-out drawer UI/UX seems like a perfect fit for a popover, and works fine on desktop too.