My favorite kind of blog post is when someone takes a subject that I’ve spent all of five minutes considering and then says—no!—this is an enormous topic worthy of a dissertation. Look at all the things you can do with this tiny CSS property! I was reminded of this when I spotted this post by […]
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Native JavaScript Routing?
Computer Science Unleashed, Chapter 1: Connections
Shadow Roots and Inheritance
There is a helluva gotcha with styling a <details>
element, as documented here by Kitty Guiraudel. It’s obscure enough that you might never run into it, but if you do, I could see it being very confusing (it would confuse …
Minding the “gap”
You might already know about the CSS gap
property. It isn’t exactly new, but it did gain an important new ability last year: it now works in Flexbox in addition to CSS Grid. That, and the fact that I …
Static Site Generators vs. CMS-powered Websites: How to Keep Marketers and Devs Happy
Many developers love working with static site generators like Gatsby and Hugo. These powerful yet flexible systems help create beautiful websites using familiar tools like Markdown and React. Nearly every popular modern programming language has at least one actively …
2021 Scroll Survey Report
Here’s a common thought and question: how do browsers prioritize what they work on? We get little glimpses of it sometimes. We’re told to “star issues” in bug trackers to signal interest. We’re told to get involved in GitHub threads …
kbar
It’s not every day that a new pattern emerges across the web, but I think cmd
+ k
is here to stay. It’s a keyboard shortcut that usually pops open a search UI and it lets you toggle settings on …
An Intro to JavaScript Proxy
Have you ever been in a situation where you wish you could have some control over the values in an object or array? Maybe you wanted to prevent certain types of data or even validate the data before storing it …
On the `dl`
Blogging about HTML elements¹? *chefs kiss*
Here’s Ben Myers on the (aptly described) “underrated” Definition List (<dl>
) element in HTML:
…You might have also seen lists of name–value pairs to describe lodging amenities, or to list
Building a Form in PHP Using DOMDocument
Jamstack Conf 2021
What? Jamstack Conf! It’s the best! Learn what’s happening and what’s next for this hot ecosystem.
When? October 6–7, 2021
Where? Virtual / online.
How much? It’s free! There are workshops as well though, at $100 a seat.
Who? You! …
overscroll-behavior
The overscroll-behavior
CSS property controls whether an element will use “scroll chaining” or not. You have likely experienced this behavior before and perhaps took it for granted that scrolling works like this on the web! If you are inside of …
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