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Angular SVG Components: Create Dynamic Interactive Graphics
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Angular SVG Components: Create Dynamic Interactive Graphics

January 09, 2025

SVG components in Angular unlock powerful possibilities for data visualization and interactive graphics. Unlike static images, SVG components can respond to data changes, user interactions, and state updates in real time. This tutorial shows you how to transform basic lists into dynamic, interactive SVG charts using Angular's component system, signal-based reactivity, and template binding. You'll learn how to create scalable, data-driven visualizations that update automatically.

Angular @let Template Variables: Create Variables in Templates (v17+)
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Angular @let Template Variables: Create Variables in Templates (v17+)

July 19, 2024

Angular's @let syntax allows you to create variables directly in templates, eliminating the need for component properties for simple calculations and transformations. Template variables improve readability, reduce component complexity, and enable inline computations without cluttering your TypeScript code. This tutorial demonstrates how to use @let for string manipulation, computed values, conditional logic, and accessibility improvements, showing real-world examples that simplify your templates.

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

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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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SVGs are So Fresh to Defs

April 14, 2014

No, this is not a hip hop song about SVGs, sorry to those of you who were expecting that. This is another post about good ol' SVG graphics. So most of us know that there is a lot that you can do with SVGs and it can all be done in many different ways. The SVG `defs` element can be used to make SVG code simpler, cleaner, and better.

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What the :root Pseudo Class is and Why You Might Use it

April 07, 2014

The :root pseudo class, at first glance, is a little odd. It seems like it's simply a replacement for using the HTML tag as a CSS selector. There's a little bit more to it than that and in this article I will explain what the :root pseudo class is and why you might use it.

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Oh Wow That’s Neat – 12: SVG Optimiser

March 25, 2014

If you've ever created an SVG image in Adobe Illustrator you've seen some pretty crazy code. Just like all other code we write, it should be simple, clean, and lean. Also, like any other image type we want to make sure that it is optimized and has the highest quality with the smallest file size.

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Pseudo-Classes vs. Pseudo-Elements

March 03, 2014

For the longest time the only pseudo selectors that we could use were :link, :hover, :visited and :active and they could only be applied to a tags. As long as we were intending to support ie6 that was all we could do. As we've adopted philosophies like progressive enhancement, graceful degradation, or dropped support for ie6, 7, and 8 we have seen the landscape of CSS selectors change dramatically.

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Quick Tip - 06: Use the Four-Value Syntax to Properly Position Background Images

February 14, 2014

After writing my post Use CSS Calc to Properly Position Background Images I had some folks point out that you can now use the new Four-Value syntax for the background-position property to achieve the same effect. I was absolutely blown away when I saw that this was finally possible. I'm mean, this just makes sense and it's something that I've wanted for years.

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Quick Tip - 02: Use CSS Calc to Properly Position Background Images

January 17, 2014

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.

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Oh Wow, That’s Neat – 02: iconmelon.com, svg Icons Lib for the Web

January 14, 2014

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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Oh Wow, That's Neat - 01: Snap.svg

January 10, 2014

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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SVGs are Cool & You Should Start Using Them, If You're Not Already

December 14, 2013

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.

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