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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 isn’t close). When I began working with Tailwind, there was an up-to-date, first-party repository on […]
Greg Sullivan on Apr 20, 2022
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Greg Sullivan on Apr 20, 2022
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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 …
Paul Esch-Laurent on Apr 18, 2022
Add a CSS Lens Flare to Photos for a Bright Touch
I’m a big fan of movies by J.J. Abrams. 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, …
Shimin Zhang on Apr 12, 2022
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 …
Adam Rackis on Apr 4, 2022
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. …
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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.…
Daniel Schwarz on Mar 28, 2022
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.
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Jens Oliver Meiert on Mar 21, 2022
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 …
Bence Szabo on Mar 18, 2022
CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean!
Hey hey!
I’ve got a big announcement to make here. (Where’s my gong? I feel like this really needs a good gong hit.)
CSS-Tricks, this very website you’re looking at, has been acquired by DigitalOcean!
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Chris Coyier on Mar 15, 2022
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 …
Patrick Bresset on Mar 3, 2022