Dynamic properties provide opportunities for new creative ideas, but also the potential to add complexity to CSS. To get the most out of them, we might need a strategy for how we write and structure CSS with custom properties.
Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Python, Bootstrap, Java and XML.
The var() CSS function can be used to insert the value of a custom property (sometimes called a "CSS variable") instead of any part of a value of another property.
Custom properties (sometimes referred to as CSS variables or cascading variables) are entities defined by CSS authors that contain specific values to be reused throughout a document. They are set using custom property notation (e.g., --main-color: black;) and are accessed using the var() function (e.g., color: var(--main-color);).
10 Code Snippets for Creating Masonry Grid Layouts
Tumblr and Pinterest popularized the masonry grid. It is a common layout style for variable sized images, and it’s a great way to get images to fit nicely into a...
Create Horizontal Masonry layouts with CSS Grid Layout
A tutorial to create a left-to-right masonry layout using CSS Grid Layout properties. Practical and dynamic use case involves a tiny bit of JavaScript.
There are various ways to hide content in web interfaces, but are you aware of the different effects they have on the accessibility of that content? While so...
PreludeI built the first version of Slimvoice on Angular 1 with a Node.js backend and MongoDB in 2014 (those were all the rage back then). In 2015 I decided to completely revamp the UI and redesigned and rebuilt it in React. In hindsight, all of that was crap. With the new version I wanted to prove that it ...
Last year, Rachel Andrew wrote “[Take A New Look At CSS Shapes](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/09/css-shapes/)” where she reintroduced readers to the basics of using CSS Shapes. In this new tutorial, Andy Clarke expands on the topic of “[Art Direction for the Web](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/printed-books/art-direction-for-the-web/)” with CSS Shapes to create exciting and inspired new design ideas.
Painting an unstyled page, and then repainting it once styles are parsed would be bad user experience. For this reason, CSS is render blocking, unless the browser knows the CSS is not currently needed. The browser can paint the page once it has downloaded the CSS and built the CSS object model. Browsers follow a specific rendering path: paint only occurs after layout, which occurs after the render tree is created, with requires both the DOM and the CSSOM trees. To optimize the CSSOM construction, remove unnecessary styles, minify, compress and cache it, and split CSS not required at page lo...
