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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Let’s hang! An intro to CSS Anchor Positioning with basic examples
The CSS anchoring API is something that I’ve been following for at least a year now, and I’m happy to see that the first level is fully specced. Even though there are still some shortcomings that I’ll cover in this article as well, the available things look pretty solid and will help us a lot in creating some complex layout structures. Besides that, they are very much needed for the future of the HTML Popover API and stylable selects.
Read moreabout Let’s hang! An intro to CSS Anchor Positioning with basic examplesModern CSS Layouts: You Might Not Need A Framework For That
It’s easy to get lost in a sea of CSS frameworks and libraries, each promising easier styling and smoother layouts. But amidst this abundance, the modern CSS features we have today offer simpler and more flexible approaches without the added dependencies or abstractions. In this article, I demonstrate four CSS utility classes (plus a bonus) using techniques that allow them to be used practically anywhere you need a particular layout — be it Grid or Flexbox — with configurable options.
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