CSS-Tricks

The HTML5 progress Element

August 28, 2013

The following is a guest post by Pankaj Parashar. Pankaj wrote to me about some pretty cool styled progress elements he created. I asked if he’d be interested in fleshing out the idea into an article about styling them in general. Thankfully, he obliged with this great article about using them in HTML, styling them with CSS as best as you can cross-browser, and fallbacks.…

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The Move to bbPress

August 23, 2013

The Forums on CSS-Tricks started life as phpBB sometime in 2008. There is even an ancient video of how to apply a basic skin. Sometime in 2010 I moved them to Vanilla Forums in a response to heavy spam and the general unwieldy nature of phpBB. Now in 2013, the forums have been moved yet again, this time to bbPress.…

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Website Critique: epicawesome.co

August 22, 2013

Back when I did the Kickstarter for this site, one of the rewards I offered was a critique, public or private, of any website. The only taker was Gus Fune, who opted for the public critique of a site he worked on: epicawesome.co. Thank you Gus for allowing this to be a public learning opportunity! …

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The Use of jQuery in Tutorials

August 20, 2013

A question came up in a semi-recent ShopTalk episode about the use of jQuery in tutorials.

Lately I’ve begun to realize how muddled the line between jQuery and JavaScript has become when learning about the language. It’s hard to find a solid tutorial that doesn’t include jQuery instead of JavaScript. What’s your opinion on the overuse of the library?…

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Force Margin/Padding On Element Next To Floated Element →

Jeff Starr explains a classic CSS layout issue and suggests a fix. It's the overflow that does it by triggering what I believe is called a new block formatting context.

CSS Animate from/to “auto” →

I have no doubt CSS will allow this one day, but right now, you can't animate the width or height of an element from a fixed value to auto. This is particularly useful when the desire is to animate from hidden to visible like jQuery's slideDown(). Nikita Vasilyev shows how you can do it with a touch of JS, but still using CSS for the actual animation/transition.

The more difficult one is to auto: 1) measure width 2) set auto 3) measure again 4) set back to previous 5) force repaint 6) apply transition 7) change width to measured auto value 8) set to auto for real. #wipesbrow

And yeah there is the max-height/width technique, but I'm not a fan. It messes with the transition timings and requires magic numbers.

Tridiv →

A web app by Julian Garnier for building and manipulating 3D shape creations in CSS. The interface is genius. One panel shows you the creation from an angle so you can see the 3D-ness of it and spin it around. The other three panes show you the creation from different straight on angles so you can drag them around in the relevant directions.

Check out a demo if you aren't impressed yet.

In the Preview Mode there is a button where you can one-click move it over to CodePen. How 'bout that?

#128: Effeckt.css, Local Setup with Grunt, and Contributing on GitHub

Effeckt.css is an in-progress open source project that aims to provide performant, quality CSS transitions and animations for web designers. The idea is to provide as little UI and JavaScript as possible so that you can extract an effect to use on your own site, and customize it, easily.

In this screencast I introduce you to the project, show how you can get it running locally, and how to contribute to it on GitHub. There is a variety of tech involved. The project uses Node and npm for its dependancies. One of which is Grunt which handles the build process. Grunt essentially watches the project folder and runs all the right stuff when files change. For instance rebuilding the HTML files when templates change, and running Sass, Autoprefixer, and LiveReload when SCSS files change.

Then we make a real change to the project (on our fork of it) and submit a pull request up to the main project.

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