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Upping Your Type Game

The ultimate primer on web type for web developers by Jessica Hische. Direct Link to Article — Permalink jQuery Conference Portland 2013 has a limited number of regular tickets still available. Two...

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Just One of Those Weird Things About CSS: Background on

So you want to make the background of your website red eh? You'll probably put this in your CSS: body { background: red; } Done! Check out this Pen! You're going about your business and then all...

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This Website Brought To You By…

I always wanted to write something on all the technologies that a website relies on in order to have been created and work. My attempts have so far failed because it spirals out of control so...

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Logic in Media Queries

Just in case you have brain farts about this constantly like I do. If That's what media queries are: logical if statements. "If" these things are true about the browser, use the CSS inside. And The...

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CSS-Tricks Chronicle XIII

I'll be speaking at the upcoming Front End Design Conference in Florida. If you have tickets, see you there! If not, sorry, this one is sold out. I recently spoke at TXJS, and they recorded the...

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Prepros

Is an open-source app modeled after CodeKit. Prepros runs on Windows where CodeKit is Mac only. From people who have tried it, it seems good. Direct Link to Article — Permalink jQuery Conference...

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Chrome’s requestAutocomple te()

Auto-filling forms is nice because it saves time and is less prone to user error. Even better is not even needing to see a form in the first place. Direct Link to Article — Permalink jQuery...

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Replace the Image in an with CSS

The following is a guest post by Marcel Shields. Marcel in a difficult place where he needed to change the image on a page but didn't have access to the HTML. Rare, but I'm sure we've all be in...

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Slider with Sliding Backgrounds

Among the many super nice design features of the Yahoo! Weather app for iOS is the transition between city screens. The background image doesn't just move away as the screen moves from one screen...

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Photo Swivel

The following is a guest post by Alex Young (@the_alexyoung). Alex has created a simple technique to "rotate" the subject of a photo simply by hiding and showing multiple stacked photographs taken...

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Media Query Change Detection in JavaScript Through CSS Animations

The following is a guest post by Alessandro Vendruscolo. Media queries are relevant to both CSS and JS. The need and desire to manage those in one place is real. There have been some clever ways to...

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Naming Media Queries

It would be pretty cool if we could do this someday in CSS. The best idea for it that I've come across is to define it in a tag in the . That way (perhaps) CSS could use it and JS could use it....

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Line Clampin’

You want X lines of text. Anything after that, gracefully cut off. That's "line clamping" and it is a perfectly legit desire. When you can count on text being a certain number of lines, you can...

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CSS Zen Garden

It's back. Direct Link to Article — Permalink jQuery Conference Portland 2013 has a limited number of regular tickets still available. Two days. Two tracks. Fresh speakers. Jun 13-14. $50 off for...

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How to mark up subtitles

Now that is gone, use a inside the main header, or group them with and use a for the subtitle. Direct Link to Article — Permalink How to mark up subtitles is a post from CSS-Tricks

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Making accessible icon buttons

Comprehensive research by Nicholas C. Zakas on the correct markup to make a graphic-only button accessible. Direct Link to Article — Permalink Making accessible icon buttons is a post from CSS-Tricks

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3D Inset Parallax Effect

The following is a guest post by Joshua Bader. Joshua noticed that certain 3D effects on the web could benefit from adjusting perspective as the web page is scrolled. I'll let him explain. People...

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Make Client Side Data Available Server Side

That would be pretty useful, right? Right now it's very common to User Agent "sniff" when you want to make a server-side decision about what to give the client. But UA sniffing has always sucked...

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WebP with Fallback

WebP images will save a quarter to a third of the file size over PNG or JPG. Not all browsers are going to support it, but Bruce Lawson shares a way we can use it in such a progressive enhancement...

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The CSS-Tricks License

Sometimes people ask me if they can use the stuff they find here. So I thought I'd create a license I can refer them to. Direct Link to Article — Permalink The CSS-Tricks License is a post from...

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CSS3 Overflow

Not the most glamorous property is it? But it just might turn out to be. Things like paginated overflow and overflowing into fragments, each of which is selectable and style-able. Could be pretty...

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Magic Numbers in CSS

Despite the super fun sounding name, magic numbers are a bad thing. It is an old school programming term for "unnamed numerical constant". As in, just some number plunked into the code that is...

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WP Migrate DB Pro

I think the most common tech question we get on ShopTalk show is how to keep a WordPress database in sync between live and local. This (paid) plugin can do it right from one admin screen to another...

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Preventing the Performance Hit from Custom Fonts

The issue is 1) custom fonts are awesome and we want to use them 2) custom fonts slow down our pages by being large additional resources. Dealing with this has been in the air recently so I thought...

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Line-On-Sides Headers

Forums user McAsh wondered how they might code up a design in which there was a large header and a smaller subheader beneath it which featured double horizontal lines jutting out after the text to...

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List of Pseudo-Elements to Style Form Controls

Like the little handle on range inputs. You can style that, but it's different in all the major browsers. It's either ::-ms-thumb, ::moz-range-thumb, or ::-webkit-slider-thumb. Obviously an area...

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Transitional Interfaces, Coded

Pasquale D’Silva’s article Transitional Interfaces has really been making the rounds. It's a quick read that drives home a great point. Transitions and animations can be more than eye candy. They...

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csscss

A CSS redundancy analyzer that analyzes redundancy. Gives you output like: {.contact .content .primary} and {article, #comments} share 5 rules If you have multiple selectors sharing five or more...

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Can You “Over Organize” JavaScript?

There's no question that on sites with lots of JavaScript, you need a strict organizational pattern to keep everything making sense and the code approachable. I've mentioned in the past I like...

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Upping Your Type Game

Just One of Those Weird Things About CSS: Background on

This Website Brought To You By…

Logic in Media Queries

CSS-Tricks Chronicle XIII

Prepros

Chrome’s requestAutocomple te()

Replace the Image in an with CSS

Slider with Sliding Backgrounds

Photo Swivel

Media Query Change Detection in JavaScript Through CSS Animations

Naming Media Queries

Line Clampin’

CSS Zen Garden

How to mark up subtitles

Making accessible icon buttons

3D Inset Parallax Effect

Make Client Side Data Available Server Side

WebP with Fallback

The CSS-Tricks License

CSS3 Overflow

Magic Numbers in CSS

WP Migrate DB Pro

Preventing the Performance Hit from Custom Fonts

Line-On-Sides Headers

List of Pseudo-Elements to Style Form Controls

Transitional Interfaces, Coded

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Can You “Over Organize” JavaScript?

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