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Explaining the Accessible Benefits of Using Semantic HTML Elements
6 November 2025 @ 3:57 pm
Why should you use a semantic <button> instead of a generic <div>? Accessibility, right? By how exactly does it help accessibility?
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The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: tan()
3 November 2025 @ 4:03 pm
Last time, we discussed that, sadly, according to the State of CSS 2025 survey, trigonometric functions are deemed the “Most Hated” CSS feature.
That shocked me. I may have even been a little offended, being a math nerd and …
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Getting Creative With Small Screens
29 October 2025 @ 4:22 pm
On mobile, people can lose their sense of context and can’t easily tell where a section begins or ends. Good small-screen design can help orient them using a variety of techniques.
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Pure CSS Tabs With Details, Grid, and Subgrid
27 October 2025 @ 2:33 pm
Can we use the <details> element as the foundation for a tabbed interface? Why yes, we can!
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CSS Animations That Leverage the Parent-Child Relationship
24 October 2025 @ 2:18 pm
When we change an element’s intrinsic sizing, its children are affected, too. This is something we can use to our advantage.
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An Introduction to JavaScript Expressions
22 October 2025 @ 7:08 pm
A thorough but approachable lesson on JavaScript expressions excerpted JavaScript For Everyone, a complete online course offered by our friends at Piccalilli.
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Building a Honeypot Field That Works
20 October 2025 @ 4:11 pm
Honeypots are fields that developers use to prevent spam submissions. They still work in 2025. But you got to set a couple of tricks in place so spambots can’t detect your honeypot field.
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Sequential linear() Animation With N Elements
15 October 2025 @ 1:39 pm
Let’s suppose you have N elements with the same animation that should animate sequentially. Modern CSS makes this easy and it works for any number of items!
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Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve
13 October 2025 @ 2:31 pm
What can CSS Masonry discussions teach us about the development of new CSS features? What is the CSSWG’s role? What influence do browsers have? What can learn from the way past features evolved?
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We Completely Missed width/height: stretch
10 October 2025 @ 2:03 pm
The TL;DR is that stretch does the same thing as declaring 100%, but ignores padding when looking at the available space.
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