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Writing Strong Front-end Test Element Locators
Automated front-end tests are awesome. We can write a test with code to visit a page — or load up just a single component — and have that test code click on things or type text like a user would, …
Adding Tailwind CSS to New and Existing WordPress Themes
In the 15 or so years since I started making WordPress websites, nothing has had more of an impact on my productivity — and my ability to enjoy front-end development — than adding Tailwind CSS to my workflow (and it …
Making Mermaid Diagrams in Markdown
Mermaid diagrams and flowcharts have been gaining traction, especially with GitHub’s announcement that they are natively supported in Markdown. Let’s take a look at what they are, how to use them, and just as importantly: why.
Just like you …
Add a CSS Lens Flare to Photos for a Bright Touch
I’m a big fan of movies by Trinidad & Tobago 1980, Olympic Games, Moscow sgMS571 MNH. I enjoy their tight plots, quippy dialog, and of course: anamorphic lens flares. Filmmakers like Abrams use lens flare to add a dash of ‘homemade’ realism to their movies, …
Adding CDN Caching to a Vite Build
Content delivery networks, or CDNs, allow you to improve the delivery of your website’s static resources, most notably, with CDN caching. They do this by serving your content from edge locations, which are located all over the world. When a …
Tricks to Cut Corners Using CSS Mask and Clip-Path Properties
We recently covered creating fancy borders with CSS mask
properties, and now we are going to cut the corners with CSS mask
and clip-path
! A lot of techniques exist to cut different shapes from the corners of any element. …
6 Useful Bookmarklets to Boost Web Development
A bookmarklet is a JavaScript-based bookmark that adds to a web browser. I’d like to show you some awesome web browser hacks to aid your web development workflow and how to convert those hacks into time-saving bookmarklets.…
Write HTML, the HTML Way (Not the XHTML Way)
You may not use XHTML (anymore), but when you write HTML, you may be more influenced by XHTML than you think. You are very likely writing HTML, the XHTML way.
What is the XHTML way of writing HTML, and what …
Optimizing SVG Patterns to Their Smallest Size
I recently created a brick wall pattern as part of my #PetitePatterns series, a challenge where I create organic-looking patterns or textures in SVG within 560 bytes (or approximately the size of two tweets). To fit this constraint, I have …
CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean!
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Say Hello to selectmenu, a Fully Style-able select Element
I want to introduce you to a new, experimental form control called <selectmenu>
. We’ll get deep into it, including how much easier it is to style than a traditional <select>
element. But first, let’s fill in some context …