When writing CSS one of the most annoying and repeating tasks is having to customize the styles for the last element in a list or other repetitive components. I've lost track of how many times I've...
Measuring long tasks in our code # // Test for long tasks test('should capture long tasks on the page', async ({ page }) => { // Function to capture long tasks async function...
While building the new blog, I started thinking about testing front-end code again. In this post I will revisit Playwright Test class, and look at the types of testing that we can do to ensure that...
The display property has been around for a long time but its definition has evolved over the years. Formally, the display property sets an element's inner and outer display types. The outer type sets...
One thing I particularly like about variable fonts is that it allows some interesting animation tricks. For example, since variable fonts have information about all possible variations of the font, we...
In addition to black and white or single, solid-color text, we can also use gradients to color the text. The process is slightly more complicated than just assigning color to the desired...
Both Eric Meyer's Reset and Normalize.css are comprehensive solutions to provide a baseline for CSS development. Can I build a set of defaults that make sense for my projects on top of these resets?...
Javascript provides a way to shortcircuit if/else statements with the conditional or ternary operator. the idea is that we consolidate the three parts of the if statement in one command, like shown...
I came accross reset from Harry Roberts (from Twitter/X) via (Kevin Powell's YouTube video). I've adapted the reset by eliminating the low quality image resource. I don't need the low quality images...
There are times when we know that users will print a page of web content. Maybe a set of directions for a recipe, a map with directions or a page of information that we want to preserve. While it's...