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Guide to Advanced CSS Selectors - Part Two
Continuing from part one, this episode will focus on the advanced CSS selectors categorized as pseudo classes and pseudo...
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Guide to Advanced CSS Selectors - Part One
Whether you choose to completely write your own CSS, or use a framework, or be required to build within a design system;...
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The 3 CSS Methods for Adding Element Borders
When it comes to CSS, sometimes a `border` is not really a `border`. In this episode, we'll cover the differences...
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Pure CSS Shapes 3 Ways
Modern CSS; and modern browser support; provides us three excellent methods to create pure, basic CSS shapes. In this...
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Custom CSS Styles for Form Inputs and Textareas
We're going to create custom form input and textarea styles that have a near-identical appearance across the top...
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Custom Select Styles with Pure CSS
Modern CSS gives us a range of properties to achieve custom select styles that have a near-identical initial appearance...
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Pure CSS Custom Checkbox Style
We'll create custom, cross-browser, theme-able, scalable checkboxes in pure CSS with the following: ; `currentColor` for...
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Pure CSS Custom Styled Radio Buttons
Using a combination of the following properties, we can create custom, cross-browser, theme-able, scalable radio buttons...
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Announcing Style Stage: A Community CSS Showcase
Dear CSS community: I invite you to participate in a new project where you have the opportunity to challenge both your...
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3 Popular Website Heroes Created With CSS Grid Layout
This episode explores creating website heroes; aka "headers"; with one of my favorite ways to use CSS grid layout: by...
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3 CSS Grid Techniques to Make You a Grid Convert
CSS grid layout can feel daunting. In fact, I avoided it for several years and was a diehard flexbox fan. Then I found...
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Expanded Use of `box-shadow` and `border-radius`
This episode will explore expanded usage of `box-shadow` and `border-radius` and conclude with a landing page demo using...
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Container Query Solutions with CSS Grid and Flexbox
True container queries are a much asked for CSS feature that would be a complement to media queries but be placed on...
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Generating `font-size` CSS Rules and Creating a Fluid Type Scale
Let's take the mystery out of sizing type. Typography is both foundational to any stylesheet and the quickest way to...
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Resource: The Complete Guide to Centering in CSS
How could I write a series called "Modern CSS Solutions to old CSS problems" without covering the classic question: ...
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Icon Button CSS Styling Guide
This guide will build on the previous episode "CSS Button Styling Guide" to explore the use case of icon buttons. We'll...
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CSS Button Styling Guide
This guide will explore the ins and outs of styling an accessible, extensible button appearance for both link and button...
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Solutions to Replace the 12-Column Grid
Let's create simplified responsive grid systems using both CSS grid and flexbox and ditch the bulk of 12-column grid...
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CSS-Only Accessible Dropdown Navigation Menu
This technique explores using: Animation with CSS `transition` and `transform`; Using the `:focus-within` pseudo-class;...
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Animated Image Gallery Captions with Bonus Ken Burns Effect
This technique explores using: `object-fit` for responsive image scaling; A CSS Grid "hack" for upgrading from position...
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Totally Custom List Styles
This tutorial will show how to use CSS grid layout for easy custom list styling in addition to: Data attributes as the...
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Pure CSS Smooth-Scroll "Back to Top"
"Back to top" links may not be in use often these days, but there are two modern CSS features that the technique...
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CSS-Only Full-Width Responsive Images 2 Ways
In the not to distant past when jQuery was King of the Mountain and CSS3 was still worth being designated as such, the...
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Equal Height Elements: Flexbox vs. Grid
Once upon a time (approximately 7 years ago), I wrote a jQuery plugin to calculate equal height columns. It ensured that...
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Keep the Footer at the Bottom: Flexbox vs. Grid
For many years, I constantly referred to this article. If you mostly deal with SPA development, you may be confused...