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Huge thanks to Wufoo for sponsoring CSS-Tricks this week! Like it says in the sidebar on this very site, we’ve been using Wufoo for literally over a decade. It’s the easiest and most powerful way to build web forms on the web.

Here’s something brand new from the Wufoo team: now in addition to payment providers like PayPal and Stripe, you can choose Worldpay.

This will be a huge upgrade for international users, …

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Eric Bidelman introduces the CSS Typed Object Model. It looks like it’s going to make dealing with getting and setting style values through JavaScript easier and less error-prone. Less stringy, more number-y when appropriate.

Like if we wanted to know the padding of an element, classically we’d do:

var el = document.querySelector("#thing");
var style = window.getComputedStyle(el);
console.log(style.padding);

And we’d get “20px” as a string or whatever it is.

One of these new API’s lets us pull it off like this:…

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I’ve recently published my first ever open source npm package! It makes SVG illustrations from unDraw into customizable React components.

Here’s a GIF that shows what I mean:

What’s unDraw?

While unDraw is still fairly new, its open source nature means that it’s being used by a range of products already. Here it is on the newly launched design mentoring site called MentorOla, alongside a language site I’ve been working on myself called Little Lingua:

Left: MentorOla…

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Huge thanks to BigCommerce for sponsoring CSS-Tricks this week!

Here’s the basics: BigCommerce is a hosted eCommerce platform. In just a few minutes, anybody can build their own online store. From a personal perspective, I’d suggest to any of my friends and family to go this route. CMS-powered websites are complicated enough, let alone feature-packed eCommerce websites. Please go with a solution that does it all for you so your site will look and work great and you can focus …

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List rendering is one of the most commonly used practices in front-end web development. Dynamic list rendering is often used to present a series of similarly grouped information in a concise and friendly format to the user. In almost every web application we use, we can see lists of content in numerous areas of the app.

In this article we’ll gather an understanding of Vue’s v-for directive in generating dynamic lists, as well as go through some examples of why …

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