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Can I :has()
4.6.2021
I just joked that we’re basically getting everything we want in CSS super fast (mostly referring to container queries, my gosh, can you imagine they are actually coming?). Now we might actually get parent selectors?! As in .parent:has(.child) { …
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Collective #663
27.5.2021
25 Years of CSS * CSS Container Queries For Designers * Incremental Static Regeneration * Unveiling Material You
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Can We Create a “Resize Hack” With Container Queries?
20.5.2021
If you follow new developments in CSS, you’ve likely heard of the impending arrival of container queries. We’re going to look at the basics here, but if you’d like another look, check out Una’s “Next Gen CSS: @container” article. …
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Collective #661
13.5.2021
A Primer On CSS Container Queries * PINTR * SimpleLogin * Psychology of Design * Tiny Wins
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Next Gen CSS: @container
11.5.2021
Chrome is experimenting with @container, a property within the CSS Working Group Containment Level 3 spec being championed by Miriam Suzanne of Oddbird, and a group of engineers across the web platform. @container brings us the ability to …
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Collective #660
6.5.2021
Container Queries Explainer & Proposal * Mantine * Fluid Typography * Fower
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Say Hello to CSS Container Queries
20.4.2021
Container queries are finally here! Now available behind a flag in the latest version of Chrome Canary, you can go ahead and experiment to your heart’s content. Oh, and if you’re not familiar with container queries then check out …
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Collective #657
15.4.2021
Natto * Glob Editor * Frontend Toolkit * Say Hello To CSS Container Queries
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Gaps? Gasp!
6.4.2021
At first, there were flexboxes (the children of a display: flex container). If you wanted them to be visually separate, you had to use content justification (i.e. justify-content: space-between), margin trickery, or sometimes, both. Then along came grids (a …
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Yes, People Are Writing Horny Fanfic About the Suez Canal and the Ever Given
26.3.2021
You know the story by now: A massive container ship has been stuck in the Suez Canal since Tuesday, successfully blocking one of the busiest shipping routes on the planet. Ships have been forced to travel around the Cape of Good Hope like it’s the 1700s, global trade has been disrupted, there...
Better Line Breaks for Long URLs
16.3.2021
CSS-Tricks has covered how to break text that overflows its container before, but not much as much as you might think. Back in 2012, Chris penned “Handling Long Words and URLs (Forcing Breaks, Hyphenation, Ellipsis, etc)” and it is still …
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CSS Switch-Case Conditions
17.2.2021
CSS is yet to have a switch rule or conditional if, aside from the specific nature of @media queries and some deep trickery with CSS custom properties. Let’s have a look at why it would be useful if we …
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(Jay Freestone’s) Front-end predictions for 2021
8.2.2021
React framework maturity, early container queries, WASM adoption, and monoliths. I’ll take all four, please. Not feeling like a particularly front-end-y? Jay says:
Interestingly, the biggest developments in the front-end are unlikely to be traditionally front-end concerns. Back...
What if you could cut your hosting costs by 80%? Webiny Serverless CMS makes it possible.
21.1.2021
Are you hosting one or more websites and are using a headless CMS? Are you hosting your CMS on a virtual machine or a container, or using a SaaS solution? If so, then you’re paying for the uptime, regardless if …
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Genesis Mining Is Converting Excess Bitcoin Datacenter Heat Into Greenhouse Power in Sweden
20.12.2020
One of the largest bitcoin mining operations in the world, Genesis Mining, has been working on an experiment with Systemair, Lulea Technical University, Research Institute of Sweden, and the local Boden municipality. The teams in Sweden are developing a system that converts excess heat from...
Minimal Takes on Faking Container Queries
2.12.2020
It’s sounding more and more likely that we’re actually going to get real container queries. Google is prototyping a syntax idea from David Baron and refined by Miriam Suzanne. Apparently, there has already been some prototyping done for a switch() syntax which is like container queries...
What’s Missing from CSS?
21.11.2020
The survey results from the State of CSS aren’t out yet, but they made this landing page that randomly shows you what one person wrote to answer that question. Just clicking the reload button a bunch, I get the sense that the top answers are:
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The Raven Technique: One Step Closer to Container Queries
10.11.2020
For the millionth time: We need container queries in CSS! And guess what, it looks like we’re heading in that direction.
When building components for a website, you don’t always know how that component will be used. Maybe it will be render as wide as the browser window is. Maybe two of them...
A Gentle Introduction to Using a Docker Container as a Dev Environment
24.9.2020
Sarcasm disclaimer: This article is mostly sarcasm. I do not think that I actually speak for Dylan Thomas and I would never encourage you to foist a light theme on people who don’t want it. No matter how wrong they may be.
When Dylan Thomas penned the words, “Do not go gentle into that good...
Using max() for an inner-element max-width
7.9.2020
I go into all this in The “Inside” Problem. The gist: you want an edge-to-edge container, but the content inside to have a limited width. I think there is absolutely no problem using a nested element inside, but it’s also fun to look at the possibilities of making that work on...