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[Robin]: Let’s start this week off with something odd and fun. I stumbled upon this interesting form pattern by Hakim El Hattab:

This is neat because I’ve never thought that a focus state could …

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[Robin]: One of the criticisms thrown at writing Atomic CSS is that it generates a ton of classes that your users don’t need. Let’s say you want to add some padding to …

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[Robin]: Everything on the web is a rectangle. No matter what element you choose or what CSS you write, under the hood you’re always filling up the page with squares and rectangles of various …

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[Robin]: I stumbled upon this nifty VS Code plugin called TabOut this week that lets you hit the tab key and jump between quotes in a line of code. It’s a brilliant plugin because …

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[Robin]: This week I’ve been thinking about page transitions on the web and this post from Chris earlier this year:

We can technically build page transitions now, even without single-page-app architecture, but what

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[Robin]: Let’s say you need some margin and padding utility classes. In Tailwind, for example, you’d write some HTML like this:

<div class="pt-6">...</div>

This sets the padding-top CSS property to 6 in …

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[Robin]: Lately in the newsletter, we’ve written about neat things we’ll be able to do with CSS in the future. CSS nesting! Container queries! Query units! New pseudo-elements! All this is very exciting but …

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Nesting CSS classes is pretty handy. If you’re familiar with preprocessing languages like Sass and Less then you’re probably used to nesting like this:

.card {
  .card-text {
    font-size: 1em;
  }
  &.card-large {
    

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Chris here, filling in for Robin, our usually weekly correspondent. And speaking of Robin, you should subscribe to his blog, as it’s a great personal blog, which he’s moving to Astro and writing …

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[Robin]: Have you ever heard of CSS query units? They aren’t a thing in CSS just yet, but let me set the stage to explain exactly how they would be useful. I only stumbled …

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I have a terrible confession to make. Send me to jail and lock away the key because, despite how much I rant about variable fonts, I’ve never really used them. I’ve read tutorials and …

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[Robin]: I’ve been in my fair share of meetings over the years; those that were unfocused and a bit rambling, those that were unclear about why they even needed to be meetings in the …

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[Robin]: When it comes to web development I feel like images have been in a state of constant flux over the past few years. What’s the best way to add an image to a …

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[Robin]: Max Böck asks when should we use @container or @media queries?

While I think container queries will eventually replace most “low level” responsive logic, there are still a lot of good usecases

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[Robin]: Exciting news! This week Astro was formally introduced — it’s a static site builder that is, well, pretty gosh darn exciting:

In Astro, you compose your website using UI components from your favorite

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For some reason this week I’ve been returning to the very basics of HTML and CSS, going over a lot of blog posts that remind me that there’s still some gaps I have in …

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[Robin]: Earlier this week I stumbled upon a problem where the only solution I could think of was a hypothetical one: an :nth-letter selector in CSS. It would work something like this:

.element:nth-letter(2) {
  

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[Robin]: Stefánia Péter made a neat website called CSS Hell. It tells us what to avoid when writing CSS and I like this note about specificity:

Developers often write overly specific selectors

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[Robin]: First up this week, Una Kravets wrote about how marvelous the future will be with container queries:

Container queries will be the single biggest change in web styling since CSS3, altering our

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[Robin]: This week I’ve been thinking about this post from the team at gov.uk where they write about how they made a button to show and hide the password of an input. They …