View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, The shorter summer version is still in effect, but I had several DMs and emails this week asking me about my overall approach to writing CSS, and I wanted to let you know that I do have a Frontend Mentor course where I cover exactly that. In the course, we build out a project based on a Figma design, starting from scratch. Throughout, I make a point of emphasizing my thought process on the decisions I’m making along...
8 days ago • 3 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, A quick reminder that I’m in summer vacation mode for the next 2-3 weeks, which means these newsletters won’t have any general musings to start them off, and there will be a bit less content than usual. If you’d like to opt out of these shorter ones, you can click here to update your preferences, and I’ll only send you one again once the newsletter is back in full force. 🙋♂️ What I’ve been up to this week Spice up your...
15 days ago • 3 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) The State of HTML survey is now opened! Hello Reader, This week, we’re taking a break from the shorter summer versions of the newsletter. We’ll be back to the shorter summer version next week. Last week I asked about whether or not you use em units… and I do apologize for the survey being closed for a lot of you, I hit my limit much faster than I’d anticipated, and probably should have just used a simple Google form for that one…...
22 days ago • 4 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, The summer edition of this newsletter is in full force, meaning it’s much shorter than normal. If you’d like to pause receiving this newsletter until they return to normal (sometime around mid-August), you can click here to update your preferences. Also, a big thank you to everyone who answered my survey on using em units, and sorry if it was closed when you submitted it, I hit my limits much faster than I'd...
29 days ago • 3 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, 💭 General musings Quick one this week as I’m enjoying some time with my family. 🙋♂️ What I’ve been up to this week :has() is more than a parent selector The :has() selector is the selector that keeps on giving, and in this video I explore some of the creative ways we can use it to select elements that come before other elements, all the siblings of an element, and when an element contains a specific number of children,...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, Sometimes when I try out a CSS feature to test something out quickly, it does whatever it promised to do, I’m happy, and I move on to other things, storing it away for when I might need it. Other times, I go down a bit of a rabbit hole, which I did this week when testing something out with anchor positioning. I wanted to test out if I could create a transition when changing what an element was anchored to… and it turns...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, Next week is the last week of school for my kids… which is insane because how did we manage to get this far into the year already?! It also means that I’ll be doing a little less work than usual, as there’ll be a bit more family time, activities, and travels going on, especially through July for me. I’ll still be putting out this newsletter, and I have a backlog of YouTube videos recorded, so the regular stuff will...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) Hello Reader, Lots of content this week… meaning I was busier than usual and we’re skipping the general musings for this week! 🙋♂️ What I’ve been up to this week Create this trendy blurry glass effect with CSS I didn’t plan for this to coincide with Apple’s new Liquid Glass UI, but I guess the timing was good! It’s not the exact same thing as what Apple’s Liquid Glass, but with the hot mess it is in terms of accessibility, that...
2 months ago • 4 min read
View this email in your browser (or share it with a friend!) PRE-S: The latest State of CSS survey is now open! I’ll be doing a live stream this upcoming Thursday or Friday, going through it myself, but you might as well jump in first! The more people who take this, the more representative it is, and the browsers use the data from these to know what features need improving and what is missing, so it is worth the time to take! Hello Reader, I’ve been getting a lot of comments lately asking...
2 months ago • 5 min read
