Jim hit a snag while working on a form. Placing labels next to inputs is trivial with flexbox, sure, but what happened in Jim’s case was a bit of dead-clicking between the labels and radio buttons. The issue? Not the markup, that’s all semantic and cool. Turns out the gap he placed between the elements […]
Consider the early days of the internet, when websites like NBC News and Amazon cluttered their pages with flashing banners and labyrinthine menus. In the early 2000s, Steve Krug’s book Don’t Make Me Think arrived like a lighthouse in a storm, advocating for simplicity and user-centric design. Today’s digital world is flooded with choices, information,
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Checkbox and radio button hacks are the (in)famous trick for creating games using just CSS. But it turns out that other elements based on user input can be hacked and gamified. There are very cool examples of developers getting creative with CSS games based on the :hover pseudo-class, and even other games based on the :valid pseudo-class. What I’ve found, though, is that the :target pseudo-class seems relatively unexplored territory in this area of CSS hacking. It’s an underrated
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Quite a fun article I worked on with Philip Braunen. Do you know that little bit of elasticity you get when scrolling beyond the viewport when browsing the web on a mobile device? iPhone calls it a “rubber-banding” effect. And you know it’s cool because Apple has previously fought to hold a copyright on it.
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Welcome to this collection of what has been catching our eye on the web over the past month.
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Learn how to create an iOS-inspired toggle switch using React components, building a simple demo React App for using this custom toggle switch component. Continue reading Create a Toggle Switch in React as a Reusable Component on SitePoint.
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Google Analytics is great, but not everyone in your organization will be granted access. In many places I’ve worked, it was on a kind of “need to know” basis. In this article, I’m gonna flip that on its head and show you how I wrote a GitHub Action that queries Google Analytics, generates a top
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I was recently asked by a student to help with a seemingly simple problem. She’d been working on a website for a coffee shop that sports a sticky header, and she wanted the hero section right underneath that header to span the rest of the available vertical space in the viewport. Here’s a visual demo
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Seems like we’re always talking about clipping text around here. All it takes is a little browsing to spot a bunch of things we’ve already explored. Article on Sep 19, 2012 Multi-line Text Overflow Ellipsis accessibility content truncation Chris Coyier Article on Mar 16, 2021 Better Line Breaks for Long URLs accessibility content truncation Reuben
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In the early days of the web, I remember how annoying it was when print designers would claim they could design websites, too. They assumed that just because they could design for one medium, they could design for the other. That assumption often led to bad user experiences. The skills for effective web design are
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