Dialogues in HTML
The web platform now provides ways to build dialogues without having to use third-party libraries. This post will cover dialogues and modal dialogues, the Javascript necessary to interact with the...
What does isolation do in CSS?
The isolation property provides a way for an element to create a stacking context without using any special technique to do so. Creating new stacking orders prevent an element from acquiring...
Making my life easier: Color Conversion Tool
"We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris." — Larry Wall, Programming Perl (1st edition), Oreilly And Associates Taken...
Individual transform properties
To apply transforms to an element, use the CSS transform Property. The property accepts one or more s which get applied one after the other. .target { transform: translateX(50%) rotate(30deg)...
Publishing directly from Github to DreamHost
After a while, I finally pulled the plug from Media Temple / Go Daddy and moved to a different host (if you want to know why I moved, ping me on social media, won't discuss it in this post). I...
Code Defensive CSS
One of the things I've always appreciated learning about writing Javascript is to code defensively. Defensive coding (or defensive programming),is the practice of eliminating assumptions in the code,...
Dynamic imports
Dynamic imports have been around for a while but it wasn't until recently that I started looking at the API since it seems to answer a question I've had for a while: How to lazy load Javascript...
CSS Relative Colors and Building Color Palettes
In an Deep Dive Into color-mix I used color-mix to lighten and darken colors. There is another technique to accomplish the same task: relative color syntax. Relative color syntax allows us to...
New Media Query Ranges
This is what we're used to do when working with media queries. We use and and or to represent logical comparisons. This example matches viewports that are 30em or larger. @media screen and (min-width:...
Testing javascript with Node and Chai
When the Node team marked their test runner stable in Node 20.0, it reignited my interest in testing code in general and, potentially, in test-driven development This post will cover my experiments...