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How to Get Web Components Right
A set of browser standards for building reusable interface elements: custom elements, the shadow DOM for encapsulated markup and styles, and HTML templates with...
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How to Get Rendering Strategies for Websites Right
The choice of where and when a page's HTML is produced: on the server for each request, at build time as static files, or in the browser by JavaScript. At a gla...
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CSS Custom Properties: The Decisions That Matter
Variables defined in CSS, such as --brand-color, that can be reused across a stylesheet and changed at runtime, often used to implement design tokens and themes...
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CSS Cascade Layers: What Actually Works
The @layer rule, which lets developers group styles into named layers with an explicit order of precedence, independent of selector specificity. Where most proj...
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The CSS :has() Selector Explained
A relational pseudo-class that selects an element based on what it contains or what follows it, such as a card that contains an image or a form field with an in...
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CSS Nesting: The Decisions That Matter
Native CSS support for writing rules inside other rules, similar to preprocessors like Sass, so related styles for a component can be grouped together. At a gla...
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CSS Logical Properties: What Actually Works
CSS properties that describe layout in terms of the text flow, such as margin-inline-start and padding-block, rather than physical directions like left and top....
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Fluid Typography with clamp(): What Actually Works
Setting font sizes that scale smoothly with the viewport between a minimum and maximum, using the CSS clamp() function. The key figures Function clamp(minimum,...
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Scroll Snap: What Actually Works
CSS that makes a scroll container settle on defined positions, used for carousels, galleries and full-screen sections without JavaScript. Where most projects go...
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A Practical Guide to View Transitions
A browser API that animates between two states of a page, or between pages, by capturing snapshots and cross-fading or morphing elements. Why does it matter? It...
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How to Get The HTML dialog Element Right
A native HTML element for modal and non-modal dialogs, with built-in focus handling, a backdrop and closing with the Escape key. At a glance Modal opened with s...
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The details and summary Elements: The Decisions That Matter
Native HTML elements that create an expandable disclosure widget, where the summary is always visible and the rest of the content toggles open and closed. What...
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