CSS is listening to us. No, not like that. Rather, CSS is accumulating more and more pseudo-classes to help us respond to JavaScript events so that we don’t have to do so with JavaScript itself. But while pseudo-classes track states, not events, they sure can feel like event listeners sometimes Read more…
The CSS translateZ() function adds depth to an element, drawing it closer or farther in space. In other words, it shifts an element along the Z-axis in a 3D space. .box:hover { transform: translateZ(100px); } .box.perspective:hover { transform: perspective(500px) translateZ(100px); } Either the perspective() function or perspective property is necessary for translateZ() to work. Read more…
The CSS translateY() function shifts an element vertically by the specified amount. Specifically, it shifts an element either up or down, depending on whether the value is positive or negative. .parent:hover .box { transform: translateY(50%); /* Shift down by half the element’s height */ } CodePen Embed Fallback Along with other transform Read more…
The CSS translateX() function shifts an element horizontally by the specified amount. Specifically, it displaces an element to the right or the left, depending on whether the value is positive or negative. .parent:hover .box { transform: translateX(50%); } CodePen Embed Fallback Along with other transform functions, it is used inside the transform property. It Read more…
The CSS translate() function shifts an element from its default position on a two-dimensional plane. This way, we can reposition an element horizontally, vertically, or both. .parent:hover .box { transform: translate(50px, 50%); } Hover over the box to see it move 50% of its width towards the left: CodePen Embed Fallback Along Read more…
Sometimes designers have silly ideas that eventually grow on you. That happened to me with this concept where I had to build columns of items moving in opposite directions when a user scrolls the page. CodePen Embed Fallback Note: This demo respects reduced motion settings, so you’ll need to enable Read more…
Chrome has shipped scroll-triggered animations, and is the first browser to do so. If you update to Chrome 146, you can view the demo below, where the background of a square fades in over the duration of 300ms, but only once the whole element is within the viewport. CodePen Embed Read more…
I need you all to promise me you’ll be cool about this. I‘m here to tell you about an upcoming web platform feature that has been a long time coming; a feature that not only fulfills a use case sorely overdue for a better solution, but does so by way Read more…
No secret that Adam’s all about props. Dude gave us Open Props a good while back for a slew of preconfigured variables for color, shadows, sizing, typography, among much much more. Now he’s back with Prop For That, a similar sorta idea, but mind-blowing in the sense that it creates Read more…
Mark Underhill: And now to the reason I wrote this post: including the word “navigation” in your <nav> labels. There’s no need. If we did, we’d hear something like “Navigation, Primary navigation”. Not the end of the world, but unnecessarily repetitive for screen reader users. One of those nuances to keep in Read more…
