Quick Hit #13

Happy birthday, Chris Coyier — and thank you for CSS-Tricks as well as everything you do at CodePen, ShopTalk, Boost, and even your personal blog! Quick Hit #13 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Quick Hit #12

Giant kudos to Scott Jehl on releasing his new Web Components De-Mystified online course! Eight full hours of training from one of the best in the business. Quick Hit #12 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Callbacks on Web Components?

A gem from Chris Ferdinandi that details how to use custom events to hook into Web Components. More importantly, Chris dutifully explains why custom events are a better fit than, say, callback functions. With a typical JavaScript library, you pass callbacks in as part of the instantiate process. […] Because Read more…

Quick Hit #11

Hey look at that, the State of CSS Survey for 2024 is open and taking submissions. Quick Hit #11 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Elastic Overflow Scrolling

A client asked if we could mimic the “rubber band” scrolling behavior on many mobile devices. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. It’s a behavior that already exists and happens automatically in most browsers. In iOS Safari, for example, you’re allowed to scroll beyond the top or bottom Read more…

RTL Styling 101

A couple of weeks ago I was super excited about publishing my first CSS-Tricks post: “Letter Spacing is Broken. Forget about that though, what’s important is the post’s topic: letter spacing is broken and doesn’t work as the CSS Specification says it should. In a nutshell, instead of spacing the Read more…