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We can animate to `auto` now!

Published over 1 year ago • 1 min read

Hello Reader,

A day late with my newsletter this week, mostly because I completely forgot to write it last week!

I have a spot on my calendar for writing my newsletter, but I was really immersed in a project I’m working on and told myself that I’d do it later, and then I simply forgot 😅.

I’ll have some news on what that project is soon-ish, but since it’s Monday morning and I’ve got a few other things that need doing as well, let’s just jump into the main content!

📅 Mark your calendar

I’m going to be talking at JetBrains JavaScript Day 2024 edition this Thrusday.

It’s a remote conference and completely free!

As the name of the conference implies, it’ll be very JS heavy, with some really good talks lined up, but I’ll be there to play a bit of a spoiler with my talk You don’t need JavaScript for that.

Again, it’s a free event that you can register for here.

🙋‍♂️ What I’ve been up to this week

As I mentioned, a lot of my week was spent working on a project that I’m really excited about.

I almost started working on it again this morning because I’m so excited for it… but I have a lot of other things that need doing, so I’m doing my best to put it on pause for a little bit.

But I did have a regular video as well, and this one on interpolate-size: allow-keywords is one of the new CSS features that I’m so happy we finally have!

video preview​

That’s right, we can animate to and from auto, and any other intrinsic size now.

Here's a CodePen with the code from the video if you want to play around with it (currently Chromium-only).

What I didn’t cover in the video was the also new calc-size() feature, which can take animating to and from auto to another level because we could use that to do calculations based on auto (and other intrinsic sizes).

​Bramus’ article on the Chrome for Developers blog that introduced me to interpolate-size also goes into calc-size as well, if you’d like more info on both of them.

🏁

No stuff from around the web this week because I haven’t really been on the web much this past week.

It’ll be back next week though, when we’ll return to the regular Sunday schedule.

Until then, have a great week!
Kevin

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