Are you aware how ARIA reside areas work? Or do you typically wrestle to middle textual content vertically? Or wish to get began with scroll-driven animations however do not know the way?
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In uncommon instances like AB testing, you would possibly wish to delay rendering to keep away from format shifts. However how do you do that with out blocking the HTML parser?
I can solely consider a not-so-great opacity: 0 hack, however fortunately, there is a new property on the horizon — blocking: render.
✱ however provided that you recognize what you are doing.
I nonetheless have not made it to play with scroll-driven animations (Chromium-only), however after I do, I am going to positively begin by watching Bramus’ new, free course.
And this is Bramus once more: CSS specificity and the cascade are highly effective but additionally complicated.
Three widespread however mistaken specificity ideas are:
- Specificity is a decimal rating.
- Utilizing the
typeattribute provides Specificity. - Utilizing
!vitalprovides Specificity.
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Refresh your CSS understanding
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When you surprise how ARIA reside areas work and the way it’s best to use them to make your web site’s updates extra accessible, Patrick examined display screen reader / browser mixtures and shares suggestions.
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Patching globals would possibly seem to be an affordable strategy so as to add performance to the platform, however normally it fights again rapidly. It puzzles me that JS ecosystem heavyweights Subsequent.js, React and Bun thought it was a good suggestion. This publish explains what to do as a substitute. 💯
I am not normally a fan of those “centering issues in CSS exhausting” jokes, however final week, I desperately tried to align an icon subsequent to a customized font. And what ought to I say? I gave up…
Niki got here alongside simply in time with some font magic in order that I can sort out issues once more subsequent week.
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From the limitless MDN data archive…
Here is a enjoyable one: you in all probability know that whenever you scale a component through CSS, it would not have an effect on its format dimension.
Typically, I discover this complicated, however if you wish to scale the precise dimension, zoom does this. And the CSS property is nearly to enter the baseline.
Chrome helps it since model 1 (#wat?), Safari joined the social gathering with model 3 (#wat^2)? and now, in 2024, Mozilla determined to prioritize zoom with Firefox 126. 😅
Let me know if you recognize why this “old fashioned” property was thought-about now. I am tremendous curious!
I attempted to pair !vital with customized properties some time in the past and bumped into a giant shock. If the code above surprises you, this publish is for you.
It is nonetheless in progress, however Firefox, because the lacking engine, began engaged on transition-behavior. What’s it good for?
You in all probability know the issue of setting opacity: 0 and show: none in the identical go, making a easy transition unattainable. transition-behavior permits you to transition opacity and flip over show as soon as opacity is about to 0. Magic!
Transition the display property
When you’re working with SVGs and are annoyed that design instruments aren’t exhibiting you code (no less than I have never found these options), SVGViewer helps you to tweak and preview SVGs with code. That is golden! 👇
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[AI tools] are helpful in the identical means that it would sometimes be helpful to delegate some duties to an inexperienced and typically sloppy intern.
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