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"description":"We might leave a text input unstyled. We might leave a link unstyled. Even a button. But checkboxes… we don’t leave them alone. That’s why styling checkboxes never gets old.\nAlthough designing checkboxes is not that complicated, we also don’t …\nThe post Fun Times Styling Checkbox States appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.",
"description":"I had no idea this was coming but it’s pretty neat! Chrome has shipped the EyeDropper API in v95 (Canary, as I write). \n🎨 Loving the new `EyeDropper` Web API: \n“`js\nawait new EyeDropper().open();\n// Returns the picked color, e.g.,\n…\nThe post EyeDropper API Dropped appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.",
"description":"I recently blogged about how images are hard and it ended up being a big ol’ checklist of things that you could/should think about and implement when placing images on websites. \nI think it’s encouraging to see frameworks—these …\nThe post Frameworks Helping Image Usage appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.",
"description":"(This is a sponsored post.)\nOptimizing the user experience you offer on your website is essential for the success of any online business. Google does use different user experience-related metrics to rank web pages for SEO and has continued …\nThe post Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) on Your Website With Ease appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.",
"title":"Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) on Your Website With Ease"
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"id":"https://css-tricks.com/?p=350070",
"author":"Ganesh Dahal",
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"description":"Here’s Atif Afzal on using a <div> that is permanently on the page where tooltips are added/removed and how they perform vastly better than plopping those same tooltips right into the <body>. It’s not really discussed, but the reason …\nThe post Don’t attach tooltips to document.body appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.",
"description":"I love shapes, especially colorful ones! Shapes on websites are in the same category of helpfulness as background colors, images, banners, section separators, artwork, and many more: they can help us understand context and inform our actions through affordances.\nA …\nThe post The Story Behind TryShape, a Showcase for the CSS clip-path property appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.",
"description":"Stefan Judis notes that there is a spec for custom media queries, but seemingly no momentum on it at the moment. That lack of movement is unfortunate, as it’s almost guaranteed front-end developers all over would start using it as …\nThe post Can we have custom media queries, please? appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.",
"title":"Can we have custom media queries, please?"
},
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"id":"https://css-tricks.com/?p=351146",
"author":"Chris Coyier",
"description":"When requirements read “when visible” your brain should go straight to IntersectionObserver. That’s exactly what Zach is doing here to kick off an animation when it scrolls into view.\nExcept this animation is an SVG SMIL animation: an <animate>…\nThe post Fire SVG animations (SMIL) when the SVG is visible appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.",
"title":"Fire SVG animations (SMIL) when the SVG is visible"
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"id":"https://css-tricks.com/?p=351346",
"author":"Chris Coyier",
"description":"(This is a sponsored post.)\nI did a sponsored video the other week explaining how to build a paid subscription newsletter using WordPress (we did it on WordPress.com but it could be hosted anywhere), MailPoet (a plugin to visually …\nThe post Building Your Own Subscription Newsletter appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.",
"title":"Building Your Own Subscription Newsletter"
},
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"id":"https://css-tricks.com/?p=351017",
"author":"Šime Vidas",
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"description":"There is a working draft spec for CSS scoping now. Other than a weird period where <style scoped shipped and then was subsequently removed from the spec (and browsers), this is the furthest a scoping proposal has gotten (the Level …\nThe post Early Days for CSS Scoping appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.",
"description":"I’d say cloud functions are one of the most transformative technologies in the last bunch of years. They are (usually) cheap, scale well, secure in their inherent isolation, and often written in JavaScript—comfortable territory for front-end developers. Nearly every cloud …\nThe post AWS Lambdas: Easy, Easier, Easiest appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.",
"description":"We’ve already discussed how creating web components is easier than you think, but there’s another aspect of the specification that we haven’t discussed yet and it’s a way to customize (nay, supercharge) a built-in element. It’s similar to …\nThe post Supercharging Built-In Elements With Web Components “is” Easier Than You Think appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.",
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