CSS Tricks

Martijn Cuppens (the same fella with the very weird div!) has some more irresistible CSS trickery. Three of the examples are about making a child element trigger an event on a parent element (almost like the magic that is :focus-within). Here's how I reasoned it out to myself: You know how if you display: hidden; an element, even if you display: block; a child, it doesn't matter — it's hidden because its parent is hidden. The same is not true for visibility: hidden;. Children will be hidden because visibility inherits, but if you visibility: visible; them, they become visible again. That's what is happening here with pointer-events. If you pointer-events: none; on a parent and then pointer-events: auto; on a child, you're re-enabling pointer events. Then a :hover on a parent will be trigge...

Several years ago, there was a big push by designers to increase the font-size of websites and I feel like we’re living in another era of accessibility improvements where a fresh batch of designers are pushing for even larger text sizing today. Take this post by Christian Miller, for example, where he writes: The majority of websites are still anywhere in the range of 15–18px. We’re starting to see some sites adopt larger body text at around 20px or even greater on smaller desktop displays, but not enough in my opinion. Christian attributes this to all sorts of different things, but I particularly like this bit: Unfortunately, it’s a common mistake to purposefully design a website in a way to avoid scrolling. To the detriment of design, body text size is reduced to either reduce scrollin...

This is a wondrous little project by Wenting Zhang that showcases a series of variable fonts and lets you manipulate their settings to see the results. It’s interesting that there’s so many tools like this that have been released over the past couple of months, such as v-fonts, Axis-Praxis and Wakamai Fondue just to name a few. Direct Link to Article — PermalinkThe post Font Playground appeared first on CSS-Tricks. Source: CSS-tricks.com

I tend to think of variable fonts as a font format in which a single font file is capable of displaying type at near-infinite variations of things like boldness, width, and slantyness. In my experience, that's a common use case. Just check out many of the interactive demos over at Axis-Praxis: or Make sure to go play around at v-fonts.com as well for loads of variable font demonstrations. But things like boldness, width, and slantyness and just a few of the attributes that a type designer might want to make controllable. There are no rules that say you have to make boldness a controllable attribute. Literally, anything is possible, and people have been experimenting with that quite a bit. If you're interested in variable fonts, we have a whole guide with all the best articles we've publis...

There's this popular analogy of Vue that goes like this: Vue is what you get when React and Angular come together and make a baby. I've always shared this feeling. With Vue’s small learning curve, it's no wonder so many people love it. Since Vue tries to give the developer power over components and their implementation as much as it possibly can, this sentiment has led to today's topic. The term renderless components refers to components that don’t render anything. In this article, we'll cover how Vue handles the rendering of a component. We'll also see how we can use the render() function to build renderless components. You may want to know a little about Vue to get the most out of this article. If you are a newbie Sarah Drasner's got your back. The official documentation is also a very ...

In this wacky and satirical post, Heydon Pickering describes a wild new technology called Cascading Style Sheets that solves a lot of the problems you might bump into when styling things with JavaScript: A good sign that a technology is not fit for purpose is how much we have to rely on workarounds and best practices to get by. Another sign is just how much code we have to write in order to get simple things done. When it comes to styling, JavaScript is that technology. CSS solves JavaScript’s styling problems, and elegantly. The question is: are you willing to embrace the change, or are you married to an inferior methodology? Yes, this is a funny post but the topic of CSS-in-JS is hot and quite active. We recently shared a video of Bruce Lawson's excellent talk on the subject and publis...