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CSS Masks Guide: Solutions to Common Design Challenges

September 15, 2023

CSS masks solve design challenges that seem impossible with standard CSS properties, enabling fade effects, irregular shapes, and complex image transformations without JavaScript or extra markup. This tutorial demonstrates three practical CSS mask techniques: creating fade-out effects on scrolling containers, adding irregular edge shapes to banners, and transforming square images into hexagonal shapes. You'll learn how CSS masks work and when to use them instead of alternatives like gradients or clip-path.

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Angular Event Listening: 4 Ways to Handle Events (Legacy Patterns)

September 08, 2023

Event handling in Angular requires choosing the right approach for each scenario: template event bindings for simple interactions, Renderer2 for global events, host event bindings for component-level events, and output() for component communication. This tutorial demonstrates four common event listening patterns in Angular, showing when to use each approach and how to avoid common pitfalls. You'll learn how to handle clicks, input changes, focus events, and global document events effectively.

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4 Angular Class Binding Patterns You Should Actually Be Using

September 01, 2023

Conditionally adding CSS classes is one of the most common tasks in Angular, and also one of the most misunderstood. Between [class], [class.someClass], ngClass, and now modern signal-driven patterns, it's easy to end up with unreadable templates or brittle styling logic. In this article, you'll learn the four class binding patterns you should actually be using in Angular in 2025, when to use each one, and how to avoid the most common performance and readability pitfalls. All examples work with Angular v19+ and modern component patterns.

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Crafting Dynamic Text Paths with HTML, SVG, and CSS: A Guide to Responsive and Accessible Graphics

August 27, 2023

Irregular text paths typically require images, creating maintenance issues, accessibility problems, and SEO limitations. Inline SVG with CSS provides a better solution, enabling dynamic, responsive, and accessible text-on-path effects directly in HTML. This tutorial demonstrates how to create curved and shaped text using SVG and CSS, ensuring designs remain editable, scalable, and accessible.

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How to Style HTML Radio Buttons: A Step-by-Step Guide

August 22, 2023

Default HTML radio buttons look outdated and inconsistent across browsers, but styling them directly is impossible due to browser limitations. This tutorial demonstrates how to create custom-styled radio buttons using CSS, hiding the native input and creating accessible, visually appealing alternatives that work across all browsers and maintain full functionality.

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CSS Shapes Bring Rich Editorial Design Features to the Web

August 21, 2016

For the longest time we’ve been stuck with boxes and it makes things that are common yet beautiful in the print world difficult if not impossible on the web. CSS shapes change this, leveling the playing field allowing us to create much more engaging layouts and designs on the web.

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Good Design Comes From... CRAP - CodeSLO Presentation

January 28, 2016

I was lucky enough to get the invite from Matt West, founder/organizer of CodeSLO, via my coworker @schwarty to give a presentation at the CodeSLO meetup "HTML and CSS - Part 3 - Modern Web Design" meet up. This was a good time. I got to get out and talk shop with a great group of people who were excited to learn about design and the role it plays on the web. My talk went a little over thirty minutes and covered the basic principles of good design: contrast, repetition, proximity, alignment, layout, typography, color, and more. For those that were unable to attend, feel free to take a look at the slides to see what you missed...

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Fixing the :active Pseudo Class Selector in Internet Explorer

February 09, 2015

Sometimes it's necessary to have a link that contains some children elements. Say, for example, you have a link that contains some text and an inline SVG icon that's styled using CSS. This set up allows you to style the icon for all of the link states `:hover`, `:visited`, and `:active` right? Well yes, with the exception of the `:active` state in Internet Explorer. Well, not without a work around at least.

Oh Wow Thats Neat 20 Dimensions Toolkit 2

June 06, 2014

layout: post title: “Oh Wow That’s Neat - 20: Dimensions Toolkit” date: “2014-06-06” tags: “Accessibility” “CSS” “JavaScript”—

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How to Force Hardware Acceleration to Improve CSS Animations

June 03, 2014

You've likely seen CSS animations and transitions in various web applications out there where they just didn't work well. They are choppy and freeze along with a bunch of other issues. This occurs because they are not taking advantage of the device GPU and hardware acceleration, but are instead using the browsers' built in rendering engine.

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Quick Tip - 19: Close Self-Closing Tags Without a Trailing Slash

May 30, 2014

For those of us who are used to working with XHTML this is going to seem a little odd but, with HTML5, we no longer need to add a trailing slash on self closing tags like images and inputs.

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Oh Wow That’s Neat – 19: Responsive Boilerplate

May 28, 2014

With all of the great frameworks popping up it can be difficult to choose the "right" one. Besides doing some really great things, probably the two most popular frameworks [Twitter Bootstrap](http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/) and [Zurb Foundation](http://foundation.zurb.com/), can be a little overreaching at times when it comes to theming them. You may find that you have to overwrite and undo many styles to make them look unique. This is where web developer [James South's](https://twitter.com/James_M_South) [Responsive Boilerplate](http://responsivebp.com/) may prove to be that "right" one.

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Alter Browser Default Panning and Zooming Behavior With CSS touch-action

May 27, 2014

Now that there are so many people accessing the sites we build through touch devices many of us will see that we need to alter the default panning and zooming behavior of the browser when touching them.

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Quick Tip - 18: Automatically Update Placed Files in Adobe Illustrator

May 23, 2014

If you use Illustrator for interface design you probably take advantage of using placed files for some of your design elements. I've started using the heck out of them in order to make updating items across files much easier and quicker. As I started doing this I quickly realized that it's monotonous to update the placed files manually after making edits to them. Well, there's good news, you can set Illustrator to automatically updated them for you.

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Oh Wow That’s Neat – 18: Morphing Buttons Concept

May 21, 2014

It used to be that websites and their interactions were much different than those from native software applications. Well this is not so much the case anymore. [Mary Lou](http://tympanus.net/codrops/author/crnacura/), a freelance web designer and developer from [tympanus.net](http://tympanus.net/), wrote an interesting article discussing a few different morphing buttons concepts that showcase some amazing possibilities for web interactions.

Normal Condensed Expanded Faces Css Font Stretch

May 20, 2014

layout: post title: “Normal, Condensed, or Expanded Font Faces With CSS font-stretch” date: “2014-05-20” tags: “CSS” “SVG”—

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Quick Tip – 17: How to Diff CSS Live Edits in Chrome DevTools

May 16, 2014

If you're reading my blog I'll assume that you are familiar with how to live edit code within all browser developer tools. I use them all the time and can hardly remember what it was like without them. Chrome DevTools tend to be my favorite but FireFox and Internet Explorer continue to improve.

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Oh Wow That’s Neat – 17: Open Source Ampersands

May 14, 2014

Paul Irish created and maintains a site devoted to Ampersands. The site is a collection of open source web fonts that only contain the ampersand character. He created it based off an [article from 2008](http://simplebits.com/notebook/2008/08/14/ampersands-2/) regarding the usage of ampersands and the fact that certain variants of the character in some fonts are more interesting than others. The article also points out that the ampersand character is often used only for display purposes and not in content so there is no reason not to use more interesting versions.

Css Pseudo Classes For Form Elements

April 28, 2014

layout: post title: “CSS Pseudo Classes for Form Elements” date: “2014-04-28” tags: “CSS” “Forms” “HTML” “SVG”—

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Quick Tip - 16: Disable HTML Form Validation With novalidate

April 25, 2014

With HTML5 we have been given new input types (email, tel, url, number, etc.) and built in browser validation to validate them. This is great but you may want to disable this validation if you want to test your server side validation, use custom validation, or something else.