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The CSS contain property gives you a way to explain your layout to the browser, so performance optimizations can be made. However, it does come with some side effects in terms of your layout.
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I’ve written nine articles in the 15 years of 24 ways, and all but one of those articles had something to do with CSS. In this last year of the project, I thought I would take a look back at those CSS articles.
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Chris Coyier asked me and a bunch of other web folk, “What about building websites has you interested this year?” This was my answer to that question.
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In this article, Rachel Andrew looks at some common layout patterns that we can’t yet do on the web and the CSS Specifications that might let us achieve them in the future.
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In this article, I explain how the W3C works and shares her “Web Story” to explain why the Web Standards process is so vitally important for everyone to have an open web platform where they can share their stories and build awesome things for the web together.
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By naming lines when setting up our CSS Grid layouts, we can tap into some interesting and useful features of Grid — features that become even more powerful when we introduce subgrids.
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In this article, I explore the situations in which you might encounter overflow in your web designs and explains how CSS has evolved to create better ways to manage and design around unknown amounts of content.
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An understanding of CSS Writing Modes is useful if you want to work with vertical scripts, or change writing mode for creative reasons. However, they also underpin our new layout methods, and those ideas are increasingly being applied across all of CSS.
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Margins in CSS seem simple enough at first glance. Applied to an element it forms a space around the element, pushing other elements away. However, there is more to a margin than you might think.
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There is more to styling lists in CSS than you might think. In this article, I start by looking at lists in CSS, and move onto some interesting features defined in the CSS Lists specification — markers and counters.
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There is a wide variety of choices when it comes to creating a PDF from a web application. In this article, I take a look at the tools that are available and shares her recommendations to help you find the tool that works best for you.
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Continuing a series on the display property in CSS, this time Rachel Andrew takes a look at what happens when you use grid as a value of display, with added information about how subgrid changes that behavior.
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Continuing a series on the display property in CSS, this time I take a look at the values which control box generation, for those times when you don’t want to generate a box at all.
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We talk a lot about Flexbox and CSS Grid Layout, but these layout methods are essentially values of the CSS display property, a workhorse of a property that doesn’t get a lot of attention.
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There are a few ways to align elements in CSS. In this article, I explain what they are with some tips to help you remember which to use and why.
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What problems will the new aspect ratio unit solve? A look at the design of a new CSS feature.
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What is fragmentation, why might you want to use it, and what is the current state of browser support?
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It can be frustrating when you want to use a feature and discover that it is not supported or behaves differently across browsers. In this article, I explain how CSS is evolving to make it easier to deal with them.
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The Multi-column Layout spec is often overlooked as we use Grid and Flexbox. In this article I explain why it is different to other layout methods, and shows some useful patterns and sites which showcase it well.
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You don’t need to commit in memorizing every CSS Property and Value, as there are good places to look them up. There are some fundamental things, however, which will make CSS much easier for you to use. This article aims to guide you along your path of learning CSS.
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In this article my aim is to give you the basic details you need to grab quick information about any CSS property detailed in the CSS specs.
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A roundup of Advent Calendar sites of interest to web designers and developers. From accessibility to UX, coding challenges to Perl, there really is something for everyone this December.
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Have you ever considered whether CSS Grid can actually replace the need for CSS frameworks or third-party component libraries? In doing so, I discovered a range of reasons people use a third-party framework and the positive and negative things about doing so.
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I attended the CSS Working Group meeting at W3C TPAC, and round up some of the discussions in this post — including those things where you can help make a decision.
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In this final article of the series, we wrap up by taking a look at some of the common uses for Flexbox. What should we use Flexbox for, and what it is not so good at?
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I write about my involvement with the CSS Working Group, and why I feel it is important that web developers understand what is being worked on in CSS, and have a way to offer feedback.
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In the last two articles, we have looked at what happens when we create a flex container, and also taken a look at alignment. This time we explore the often confusing issue of sizing in Flexbox. How does Flexbox decide how big things should be?
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In this article, we take a look at CSS Shapes and how to create non-rectangular shapes using images, gradients, and basic shapes. We also discover how the new tools in Firefox make editing shapes easier.
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In this article, we take a look at the alignment properties in Flexbox while discovering some basic rules to help remember how alignment on both the main and cross axis works.
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In this article, the beginning of a series on Flexbox, we will take a detailed look at what actually happens when you add display: flex to your stylesheet.
