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I rather like position: sticky;. It has practical use cases. I think of things like keeping a table of contents in a sidebar of a long article, but as a fairly simple implementation and without risk of overlapping things in awkward ways. But Elad Shechter is right here: it’s not used that much — at least partially — and probably because it’s a bit weird to understand.

I like how Elad explains it with a “Sticky Item” and a … Read article

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Most web applications built today receive data from an API. When fetching that data, we have to take certain situations into consideration where the data might not have been received. Perhaps it was a lost connection. Maybe it was the endpoint was changed. Who knows. Whatever the issue, it’s the end user who winds up with a big bag of nothing on the front end.

So we ought to account for that!

The common way of handling this is … Read article

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I came across this update from Scott Kellum’s and Sal Hernandez’s project Typetura via my Medium feed this morning, and what a delight?!

(Also, wow, I really have been out of the game for a minute.)

Typetura.js is a fluid design solution, for any property, based on any input. It’s not for just typography across screen sizes. Transition between anything — width, height, scroll position, cursor position, and more.https://t.co/EoouX0PkGC

— typetura (@typetura) January 18, 2019

This is quite exciting! … Read article

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Scott O’Hara digs into the <figure> and <figcaption> elements. Gotta love a good ol’ HTML deep dive.

I use these on just about every blog post here on CSS-Tricks, and as I’ve suspected, I’ve basically been doing it wrong forever. My original thinking was that a figcaption was just as good as the alt attribute. I generally use it to describe the image.

<figure> <img src="starry-night.jpg" alt=""> <figcaption>The Starry Night, a famous painting by Vincent van Gogh</figcaption>
</figure>

I intentionally … Read article

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Web developers and content editors alike often forget or ignore one of the most important parts of making a website accessible and SEO performant: image alt​ text. You know, that seemingly small image attribute that describes an image:

​​​<img src="/cute/sloth/image.jpg" alt="A brown baby sloth staring straight into the camera with a tongue sticking out." >

📷 Credit: Huffington Post

If you regularly publish content on the web, then you know it can be tedious trying to come up with descriptive … Read article

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SVG is a great format for icons. Vector formats look crisp and razor sharp, no matter the size or device — and we get tons of design control when using them inline.

SVG also gives us another powerful feature: the ability to manipulate their properties with CSS. As a result, we can make quick and simple interactions where it used to take crafty CSS tricks or swapping out entire image files.

Those interactions include changing color on hover states. It … Read article

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