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Sticky elements are predominantly used for keeping something shown on the screen throughout scrolling. As cool as that is, we can also hide elements in the same way!

Here’s a typical (um) sticky situation:

See the Pen position:sticky (CSS) by Preethi Sam (@rpsthecoder) on CodePen.

Sticky elements (position: sticky;) are very similar to fixed elements ( position: fixed;) in that they both maintain their position on the screen, even as the user scrolls up …

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This is a great explanatory microsite by Sam Richard.

CSS Houdini will let authors tap in to the actual CSS engine, finally allowing us to extend CSS, and do so at CSS speeds. Much like Service Workers are a low-level JavaScript API for the browser’s cache, Houdini introduces low-level JavaScript APIs for the browser’s render engines.

What’s important to know is that Houdini is broken up into these different parts, each of which will be implemented separately. We have an …

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It was Safari who first started hiding the complete URL. Here’s what CSS-Tricks looks like even when you’re on an article page by default in Safari:

The full URL path is hidden.

You can only fix it (YES, FIX IT) by checking “Show full website address” in settings.

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We’ve already damaged the sanctity of URLs in a way with URL shorteners. Thankfully, those are used less and less with social networks, like Twitter, not counting the URL toward …

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Mike Hartington glows about how good and useful the Shadow DOM is:

[Shadow DOM is] actually built on two simple ideas, isolation and location. Need to create a bit of DOM that is isolated from the global scope? Shadow DOM is here to help. Need to specify the exact location of a piece of DOM? Shadow DOMs scope API is what you need!

It can be helpful to think of components that use Shadow DOM as modules for HTML. Markup …

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Most of the behavior in an application revolves around events. User enters a value in the registration form? Event. User hits the submit button? Another event. Events are triggered a number of ways and we build applications to listen for them in order to do something else in response.

You may already be super comfortable working with events based on your existing JavaScript experience. However, React has a distinct way of handling them. Rather than directly targeting DOM events, React …

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