Issue #531

November 23, 2022

An Interactive Guide to Flexbox

Joshua Comeau created a fantastic guide that will help you expand your mental model for Flexbox even if you’ve been using it for years.

Matej Latin explores huge type and establishes guidelines and recommendations for using it on the web.

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Quick Tip: Enable this feature in DevTools when working with CSS Grid

A short tip outlining how and why you should enable the “Show area names” option for CSS Grid in DevTools, particularly when working with grid-template-areas property.

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Articles & Tutorials

Taming the Cascade With BEM and Modern CSS Selectors

Liam Johnston shares how to use BEM alongside modern CSS selectors like :is(), :has(), :where() to gain better control of the Cascade.

vh, svh, lvh, and dvh

Manuel Matuzovic explains how dvh viewport unit addresses the issue on mobile where viewport changes depending on the state of interface elements.

CSS :where() To Replace Complex Multi-Selectors

Anselm Hannemann gives a short introduction to :where() selector.

CSS Grid and Custom Shapes, Part 3

Temani Afif demonstrates how to combine CSS Grid with clipping and masking to create fancy layouts for image galleries.

The Anatomy of visually-hidden

James Edwards explains how exactly work styles used to hide content from most users while keeping it accessible to assistive technology users.

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Tools

CSS Clothoid Corners

An online tool to generate clothoid rounded corners using CSS clip-path.

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An online regex visualizer & editor.

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Inspiration

City Life - Day & Night - Pure CSS

Josetxu López Barajas created an impressive illustration using only CSS.

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Until Next Week

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