Issue #226

August 17, 2016

Shadow DOM V1: Self-Contained Web Components

Eric Bidelman gives an excellent introduction into Shadow DOM, one of the four Web Component standards (HTML Templates, Shadow DOM, Custom elements and HTML Imports).

Journey to Enjoyable, Maintainable Styling with React, ITCSS, and CSS-in-JS

Mikey Murphy shares an interesting approach to web application styling.

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Articles & Tutorials

How to Create a Simple Layout with CSS Grid Layouts

Abbey Fitzgerald explains the basics of CSS Grid Layouts.

Front-End Tip: Testing Component Accessibility with CSS

Mariano Miguel shows a very simple technique to bring inaccessible components to the surface before they make it into production.

Force Selection of Text Block

Did you know that there’s a CSS property that allows you to control how the text in an element is allowed to be selected? Chris Coyier introduces the user-select property.

31 Ways to Spend Less Time on Manual Cross–Browser Testing

Jim Newbery shares some strategies and tips for reducing the pain of manual browser testing.

Building Themes with CSS Color Features

Erik Jung experiments with a new way to apply color values in his CSS. Instead of setting explicit values for each color, he calculates the entire palette from a small set of base colors. Quite an interesting approach.