CSS-Tricks 2d ago

Making Complex CSS Shapes Using shape()

Creating rectangles, circles, and rounded rectangles is the basic of CSS. Creating more complex CSS shapes such as triangles, hexagons, stars, hearts, etc. i...

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CSS-Tricks 3d ago

Front-End Fools: Top 10 April Fools’ UI Pranks of All Time

These are the historical pranks I consider the top 10 most noteworthy, rather than the “best.” You’ll see that some of them crossed the line and/or backfired...

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CSS-Tricks 3d ago

Sniffing Out the CSS Olfactive API

A deep sniff of the new CSS Olfactive API, a set of proposed features for immersive user experiences using smell. Sniffing Out the CSS Olfactive API original...

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CSS-Tricks 4d ago

What’s !important #8: Light/Dark Favicons, @mixin, object-view-box, and More

Short n’ sweet but ever so neat, this issue covers light/dark favicons, @mixin, anchor-interpolated morphing, object-view-box, new web features, and more. Wh...

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CSS-Tricks 5d ago

Form Automation Tips for Happier User and Clients

That gap between "the form works" and "the business works" is something we don't really tend to discuss much as front-enders. We focus a great deal on user e...

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CSS-Tricks Mar 26

Generative UI Notes

Looking at research and experiments that are designed to automatically generate user interfaces based on user preferences. Generative UI Notes originally pub...

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CSS-Tricks Mar 23

Experimenting With Scroll-Driven corner-shape Animations

The new CSS corner-shape() property is mathematical, so it’s easily animated. Author Daniel Schwarz pokes at animating the property for interesting UI effect...

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CSS-Tricks Mar 19

JavaScript for Everyone: Destructuring

Mat Marquis and Andy Bell have released JavaScript for Everyone, an online course offered exclusively at Piccalilli. This post is an excerpt from the course ...

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CSS-Tricks Mar 16

What’s !important #7: random(), Folded Corners, Anchored Container Queries, and More

For this issue we have random(), folded clip-path corners, anchored container queries, customizable select, scroll-triggered animations, and more. What’s !im...

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CSS-Tricks Mar 16

4 Reasons That Make Tailwind Great for Building Layouts

Tailwind is really great for making layouts and there are many reasons why. Zell Liew looks at four specific examples of common use cases. 4 Reasons That Mak...

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CSS-Tricks Mar 11

Abusing Customizable Selects

Let’s go over a few demos using the new customizable feature that may be wild, but also give us a great chance to learn new things in CSS. Abusing Customizab...

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CSS-Tricks Mar 9

The Value of z-index

How we look at the stacking order of our projects, how we choose z-index values, and more importantly, the implications of those choices. The Value of z-inde...

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