WordPress Block Editor Enhancements
How to make the editing experience better
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2020 Resources
Design Engineering Handbook
Thoughts on the design & development process
Learn how design engineering brings together form and function in this new Design Better book written by Natalya Shelburne, Adekunle Oduye, Kim Williams, and Eddie Lou – including interviews with Miriam and others.
2019
Edit CSS Shapes in the Browser
For quick visual adjustments directly on the page
Have you ever wanted to create more interesting shapes on the web, or flow text around the details of an image? Shape paths can be hard to code without a visual reference, but Firefox provides a shape editor to make it quick and clear.
Use new selectors responsibly with selector queries
Just in time for Selectors Level 4
Firefox 69 was the first to implement selector feature queries, but other browsers are following suit. I’ll show you how it works, and how to start using this new feature query right away.
How do you wrap long words in CSS?
None of the solutions are perfect, but we have some options
Horizontal text overflow has always been difficult to manage on the web. The default visible overflow is designed to make sure content remains accessible no matter the size of a containing box, but it’s not our only option.
Scroll Snap in CSS
Without any JavaScript or “scrolljacking”
When we’re scrolling down a page, or through a gallery of images, snap-targets can help guide us from one section or image to the next. In the past, developers have used JavaScript to hijack scrolling, but now we can manage scroll alignment directly in CSS with only a few lines…
Inner & Outer Values of the Display Property
Allow us to be more explicit & expressive about layouts
The
displayproperty has been in CSS from the beginning, handling everything fromblockandinlineboxes tolist-itemsand full layout systems likeflexboxorgrid. Now thedisplaysyntax is getting an upgrade to match it’s multiple uses.Why isn’t this CSS doing anything?
Have you ever set a
widthin CSS, and… nothing happens?There are a number of property & value combinations that can lead to CSS being inactive, and now Firefox will tell you why. Open the developer tools, and look for the greyed-out property with an info-box on hover.
Faster Layouts with CSS Grid
And
subgrid, landing on Dec 3For years, we’ve struggled to build resilient layouts on the web, but CSS Grid promises to change all that – and you can start using it now, with only a few properties and basic concepts.
Laying out Forms using Subgrid
and fallbacks for legacy browsers
It’s a common pattern to align form labels and inputs in grid-like layout. I’ll show you how to do it quickly using CSS subgrid, with several quick fallbacks.
Subgrid for Better Card Layouts
and fallbacks for legacy browsers
Card layouts are popular on the web, rows and columns of boxes with similar content. CSS grids can help align those cards, but it’s still be hard to line-up content inside the cards – headers and footers that might need more or less room.
What does
revertdo in CSS?And how is it different from
unsetorinitial?I’ve often used
initialandunsetin my CSS – global keywords that can be applied to any property. The difference is small, but important:unsetallows inheritance, whileinitialdoes not. But then Firefox implementedrevertand I was confused – how is this one different from the others?Why is CSS so Weird?
How can we design for an unknown & infinite canvas?
CSS is the design language of the web – one of three core web languages – but it also seems to be the most contentious and often perplexing. It’s too easy and too hard, too fragile and too resilient. Love it or hate it, CSS is weird: not quite markup…
Styling Lists in CSS
Powerful New CSS for Styling Bullets, Numbers, and List Markers
When you create lists in HTML, browsers add bullet-points or numbers we call list markers. Now CSS gives us the tools to style those list markers, and even create our own!
Announcing the Mozilla Developer Channel
a gift from Mozilla (and OddBird)
Over the summer, we’ve been working with Mozilla to help create a new resource for web professionals like us – with a mix of videos, articles, demos, and open source tools. Today, we’re excited to launch the video channel!
2017
Getting Started with CSS Grid
It feels like CSS Grid has been coming for a long time now, but it just now seems to be reaching a point where folks are talking more and more about it and that it’s becoming something we should learning.
CSSDay 2016 Recap
CSSDay was held in sunny Arizona on December 3, 2016. The conference is geared towards front-end developers who want to dive deeper into advanced CSS topics.
Designing Using Data
Ongoing education in our industry is a must. Attending conferences is a great way to learn and network with other industry professionals. Unfortunately, not everyone is able to attend conferences, but have no fear! Many of the best conferences post videos online, giving our community an easy way to learn…