This website is Brian Treese's Angular Development Blog. The site provides practical, hands-on tutorials and resources for developers who use the Angular framework. The tutorials cover modern Angular techniques including Signals, Components, Forms, Animations, CDK (Component Dev Kit), and Styling. Each tutorial includes code examples, video demonstrations, and step-by-step instructions to help you build Angular applications.
If you would have asked me about the CSS Calc function six months or so ago I would have said "What's That?". But luckily for me I stumbled across some blog post highlighting the coolest new CSS stuff that's available for us to use and CSS Calc was one of them. It's really a pretty useful item to have at our disposal.
There are many pros and cons to using icon fonts and SVGs for icons in your designs. I had been under the impression that icon fonts were the more effective of the two but have had some reservations. For one, what happens if you need a multi-color icon? Remember, they are simply fonts so they have to be a solid color. The only way around that is to get all hacky and build the various components using other elements. The sizing of things is also a little odd since they are fonts they have to be sized with font-size and line-height which doesn't necessarily feel right. Using animations with them is also very limited when compared to SVG. And one last thing, they cant be set to scale at a percentage of their containing elements like SVGs can.
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Layout has traditionally been a pretty difficult thing to get right when it comes to building web sites. With CSS3, however, it looks like things are getting a bit easier. I've written "Flexbox: Modern Web Layouts Simplified" which covered Flexbox layout techniques. That was cool, but there are other great layout features provided for us in CSS3, In this article I'm covering CSS3 Multiple Columns.
For those of you that have read my post "SVGs are Cool & You Should Start Using Them, If You’re Not Already" you know that I am a fan of SVGs. In fact, now that I know a little more about them I feel that they are very under used in modern web development. They are light weight, resolution independent, and they really open up the door to so many possibilities for enhancing user experiences.
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Most of the time when using HTML and CSS we are simply drawing flat rectangles, rounded rectangles, or circles within 2D space. CSS Transforms allow us to alter the shape, position, rotation, and scale of html elements within both 2D and 3D space. When combined with CSS transitions, transforms can really enhance the user experience although that topic will require its own post.
New in the world of web layouts is the CSS3 "Flexible Box Layout Module" known as Flexbox. It is so new in fact that at the time of writing this post it is still just a W3C Recommendation and is still in flux with different browsers implementing things a little differently. That being said, it actually has been around since 2009 although the syntax was different. The most recent version of the module seems to be fairly stable with solid support among the latest versions of all major browsers.
Up until a couple of months ago I had no idea that there was even such a thing as an inline SVG. Once I found out I realized that I need to learn more about them. First off SVG stands for "Scalable Vector Graphics" which literally means just what it says. It's simply an image format containing XML code that describes vector graphics which can be resized large or small without affecting quality.
layout: post title: “How to Create a Text Glow Effect Using CSS3” date: “2013-12-04” tags: “CSS” “SVG”—