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Recently, a client asked me to create a bulging text effect. These are exactly the kinds of creative challenges I live for. I explored several directions, JavaScript solutions, SVG filters, but then I remembered the concept of 3D layered text. With a bit of cleverness and some advanced CSS, I Read more…
Filing this in the “Missed First Time Around” category. It popped up in the Firefox 139 release notes and I was, like, ooo neat. Then I saw it’s been in Chrome since at least 2022. And as I wrote this, it landed in Safari Technology Preview 125. So there you Read more…
I love “re-learning” things I thought I knew. HTML is full of those opportunities (case in point, like today) since it’s where you typically start learning about web development. And in those early days, you don’t know what you don’t know. So, thanks Jim Nielsen for giving me a reason Read more…
My brain can’t help but try to make connections between seemingly disparate ideas. And that’s what happened yesterday when I read: Hidde’s “Can components conform to WCAG?” Joas’s “Automating Design Systems” Zell’s “We Might Need Something Between Root and Relative CSS Units for “Base Elements” What we have is: A Read more…
CSS provides us with root and relative values. Root values are like rem and rlh — they’re tied to the values written in the :root selector (the most common one would be the html element). Relative values are like em, lh, ch and various others — they’re tied to the Read more…
Block quotes and pull quotes are useful for punctuating solid blocks of running text. They’re also two of the best typographic elements for acting as visual landmarks to catch someone’s eye. There are no rules about how long a quote should be, how big it should look, or even how Read more…
If you landed on this article, chances are you might have a front-end interview coming up, perhaps one with a focus on CSS, or you are in the market to start preparing for CSS-related interviews altogether. Depending on the exact role you are interviewing for, it’s unlikely that you will Read more…
For a period in the 2010s, parallax was a guaranteed way to make your website “cool”. Indeed, Chris Coyier was writing about it as far back as 2008. For those unfamiliar with the concept, parallax is a pattern in which different elements of a webpage move at varying speeds as Read more…
After four years, the demos in my “Headless Form Submission with the WordPress REST API” article finally stopped working. The article includes CodePen embeds that demonstrate how to use the REST API endpoints of popular WordPress form plugins to capture and display validation errors and submission feedback when building a Read more…
Do we invent or discover CSS tricks? Michelangelo described his sculpting process as chiseling away superfluous material to reveal the sculpture hidden inside the marble, and Stephen King says his ideas are pre-existing things he locates and uncovers “like fossils in the ground.” Paragraph one is early for me to Read more…
