Issue #253

February 22, 2017

Deep Dive CSS: Font Metrics, Line-height and Vertical-align

Vincent De Oliveira explores line-height and vertical-align properties, as well as the font metrics, explains how text is rendered on screen, and how to control it with CSS.

Erik Kennedy shows a few ways of creating non-rectangular headers.

Pobuca

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Articles & Tutorials

CSS and Progressive Enhancement

Michael Scharnagl explores why CSS can fail, why fallbacks are important and how to progressively enhance CSS.

Nuances of CSS Transitionend Events

Rob Tarr explains that the transitionend event is firing once for each property that is being animated.

How to Build an Off-Canvas Navigation With CSS Grid

Ian Yates demonstrates how to build an off-canvas navigation using CSS Grid.

Writing a Great README

Daniel Bader goes over the key elements every README for an open-source project should contain.

Frontend Design

Brad Frost explains why he thinks that people who are skilled at frontend design are in a great position to help bridge the divide between the design and development worlds.