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Issue #230

September 13, 2016

Building Resizeable Components with Relative CSS Units

Building Resizeable Components with Relative CSS Units

Ahmad Shadeed explores a concept that lets you resize your components by using CSS relative units (%, em, or rem).

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The Math of CSS Locks

The Math of CSS Locks

A detailed description of the inner workings of CSS locks, a Responsive Web Design technique that lets you transition smoothly between two property values when the screen gets smaller or bigger.

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Articles & Tutorials

Current Color: The First CSS Variable

Glen Maddern talks about the currentColor, one of the most powerful yet underutilized features of CSS.

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Fun with CSS: NBA Edition

Chen Hui Jing explains how to recreate a demo Ethan Marcotte used to illustrate his point on progressive enhancement in his Laziness in the Time of Responsive Design talk.

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Captivatingly Colourful Campaigns: Our Guide to Using CSS Filters in Email

Jennifer Birks shows how can you use CSS Filters in your newsletters. Client support is, surprisingly, quite good.

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Fullscreen Background Video with mix-blend-mode Overlay Text

Dudley Storey demonstrates how easy it is to create a beautiful text-over-video effect using CSS mix-blend-mode.

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Interview with Harry Roberts Before Webexpo Prague: about Refactoring CSS and ITCSS

A nice interview with Harry Roberts on refactoring CSS and ITCSS, a methodology for organizing large CSS codebases.

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Tools

Tabular Input

Lightweight jQuery plugin for building a tabular input method.

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Multiple.js

An interesting experiment in sharing background across multiple elements using CSS.

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Inspiration

CSStargate

CSStargate

Nils Schönwald created a fully functional Stargate (and a DHD) with CSS (and a bit JS).

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