Another year, another CSS day. I am not joking or exaggerating to say that this conference has and always will be one of my highlights of the year. Welcoming, top speakers accompanied with just totally geeking out with other CSS people around food and drinks. This was CSS day 2023 - a short summary.
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Recently, I’ve created a presentation named “so, you’re still not using custom properties?” In this article, I want to highlight a part of that presentation. Custom properties have been available to us for quite some time now. And creating a smart button design system is just one of the many things where they can shine.
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A lot of developers use Chrome as their main browser and I’m one of them. There are a few tricks in Chrome DevTools that don’t seem to get enough attention. So for this article, I wanted to highlight some of the features that I love and actually use in DevTools, that some of you might not know about.
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If it pops, it belongs in HTML and CSS! Lately, I had a lot of fun playing around with this upcoming feature. The first version is being developed and it’s starting to look pretty good. It’s time to handle our basic popovers without the explicit need of JavaScript.
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Animating elements while a user scrolls the page is a popular practice on the web. With animation-timeline and the scroll() function available in Chrome Canary, we get a nice preview on how these scrolling animations in pure CSS will work. The perfect time to create some demos and play around with it.
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The :has() pseudo class is really a powerhouse. There are so many cool and amazing demos being released everyday showing how it can solve everyday problems and how it can replace actions we did in JS for years. In this short article: Some extra things I look forward to when playing around with it.
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Design should never be a trade-off when it comes to creating an accessible web. There are many features coming to the web that will make creating contrast a lot easier. But even though CSS functions such as color-contrast() are only available in Safari behind a flag, we can already do a lot to create contrast in an easy way by using custom properties.
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Unless you have no affinity with CSS at all, you should have noticed that new CSS features are skyrocketing like never before. How can we use these new playthings today? I wrote a miniseries about this on the iO tech_hub.
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The CSS :has() pseudo class is rolling out in many browsers with Chrome and Safari already fully supporting it. It’s often referred to it as “the parent selector” — as in, we can select style a parent element from a child selector — but there is so much more that :has() can help us solve. One of those things is re-inventing the clickable card pattern many of us love to use from time to time.
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The :has() relational pseudo class has landed in Chrome and Safari and even though it gets less hype than for instance container queries, I believe this little pseudo class contains a lot of improvements to the way we write CSS today.
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