25 posts tagged with "css"
Drop-Shadow: The Underrated CSS Filter
If you’re familiar with CSS, you probably know all about the box-shadow property. But did you know there is a CSS filter, drop-shadow, that…
Irregular-shaped Links with Subgrid
Card-based UIs are commonly-used web design patterns, and it’s not unusual to build a UI that requires a hover (or focus) effect to be…
CSS-only Slide-up Caption Hover Effect
Have you ever needed to build a UI where a caption needs to slide over an image on hover, revealing more content? This is something I’ve…
All the CSS Colours
I recently made a demo where I needed to list all the CSS named colours as options in a select input. I didn’t want to write them all out by…
Video: 90 Seconds on CSS Custom Properties
Last year I spoke at Future Sync conference, and this year the organisers asked me if I could provide a short recorded introduction to a CSS…
Different Approaches to Responsive CSS Motion Path
When it comes to using CSS Motion Path, it always bugs me that the path itself is doesn’t scale. The path size, as created, is essentially a…
Building an Interactive Timetable
This week the UK joined many other parts of the world in imposing a lockdown to battle the coronavirus (AKA Covid-19), and so we find…
Positioning Text Along a Path with CSS
I’ve been playing around with CSS Motion Path a lot over the past couple of months, and having a lot of fun creating demos, some of which…
Do We Need CSS4?
Jen Simmons raised an interesting proposal for the CSS Working Group this week: Let’s Define CSS 4 It’s come up quite a few times recently…
Quick and Easy Dark Mode with CSS Custom Properties
Adding “dark mode” support to a website or app is becoming increasingly popular among developers, many of whom favour this setting…
Fun with CSS Motion Path
Animating an element along a path is something we as developers would normally reach for a big old JS library (like GSAP) for. But with the…
7 Uses for CSS Custom Properties
Custom properties (also known as CSS variables) allow us to store property values for re-use in our stylesheets. If you’re relatively new to…
Beautiful Scrolling Experiences – Without Libraries
Published on 24WaysRe-creating the ‘His Dark Materials’ Logo in CSS
I love the new BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy of novels. There’s also some pretty nice graphic design to…
A Layout Trick for Building a Contact List
I recently needed to build a design for a contact list that looks like this: It consists of an email address and telephone number (with the…
A Modern Front End Workflow
Part 3: Building Our Sass Architecture
In the previous two articles we went through configuring a project starter repository using NPM scripts and Parcel. I tend to employ more or…
State of the Art CSS
An article on new and upcoming CSS features for Web Designer magazine.Variable Font Animation with CSS and Splitting JS
A little while ago I made an animated variable font demo on Codepen. In this article I’ll explain what variable fonts are, how they can be…
Heatwave: An Animated CSS Sun Illustration
We’re right in the middle of a heatwave here in the UK, and things have been a little quiet on this blog while I’ve been very busy with…
How to Enable Experimental Web Platform Features in Chrome and Firefox
Want to experiment with the latest bleeding-edge web technologies? One way is to download a nightly (or developer) version of the browser…
Pixel Pioneers 2019 Roundup
Last week I attended Pixel Pioneers, an annual conference in my local city of Bristol. It has fast become a firm date in my calendar, and…
How to Create Better Themes with CSS Variables
Published on LogRocketA Year of Utility Classes
Last year at Mud we adopted a utility-first approach to CSS (also known as atomic CSS). Specifically we decided to use TailwindCSS, a…
Reversing an Easing Curve
Published on CSS TricksInto the Matrix with SVG Filters
In this article we’ll explore how to use SVG filters for advanced colour manipulation on images. Blend modes and beyond If you’re writing…