Playing With text-emphasis
Sometimes it's nice to put some sort of emphasis on our text to highlight elements or because we just want it to look different. One way to create these highlights is to use the text-emphasis...
Style Queries
In the previous article, we discussed inline-size container queries. There is another type of container query: style queries. There are some significant differences Unlike inline-size queries, every...
Building a Card Component
Container queries introduce an additional and complementary way to create content in addition to what media queries allow. This post will look at container queries and how to use them to build a...
Figures As Universal Containers
When I see figures, this is what I think about and what I see the most often, maybe with srcset and sizes attributes to handle responsive images. See the Pen figure and image by Carlos Araya...
Exploring Intrinsic Sizing
There are two ways to measure content in CSS. Explicit measurements are what we're most familiar with. These are the pixels, rems and ems. Intrinsic sizes don't provide exact dimensions but size...
Writing Modes, Direction and Text-Orientation
The Writing Modes specification reached full recommendation status almost 5 years ago. I've written about it before but I think it's time to revisit them again and see how they could be applied to...
Everything is a box
One way of thinking about HTML and web content is to think about boxes, multiple boxes surrounding your content. You can see these nested boxes in your browser's Dev Tools as shown in figure 1. CSS...
Shapes as Layout Drivers
CSS Shapes have been around for a long time and allow developers to wrap text around the shape of the image. According to MDN: The CSS shapes module describes geometric shapes that can be in CSS. For...
Revisiting Images For The Web
It's been a while since I've looked at image formats supported on web browsers. The last time I did, AVIF had recently been introduced and Apple had announced support for WebP in Safari and operating...
Creating an Eleventy Website (Part 2)
In the last post, we looked at building and configuring an Eleventy website. This post will look at creating content for the site including: Migrating old content from WordPress, creating additional...