with tags: #CSS Variables #CSS Logic #CSS Layers #Experiment #Practical #CSS
In my quest to push forward what is possible with custom properties in CSS, I discovered another application of cyclic dependencies. Combined with a prior technique based on custom cascade layers, we are now even closer to something that resembles native CSS mixins.
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Style queries will unlock many doors. An ability to alternate a value of any variable that I presented in my previous article might seem to be trivial by itself, but what if there is a hidden depth in how we can utilize it? One interesting case is the ability to emulate inherit() — a way to access the previous state of a custom property.
with tags: #CSS Layers #CSS Variables #CSS Logic #Style Queries #Experiment #Practical #CSS
In this article, I am sharing the next evolution of space & cyclic toggles, which allows us to create and apply optional mixins in CSS with the help of custom cascade layers, available today in every browser that supports them.
with tags: #Scroll Driven Animations #Future CSS #CSS Variables #Experiment #Practical #CSS
In my fourth article about scroll-driven animations, I explore how we can transfer the state of one element to a completely different place on a page by connecting them with a unique identifier in CSS via a timeline-scope.
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After solving the fit-to-width text, stuck state for sticky elements, and scroll shadows, I wondered: how many other items from various CSS wishlists could I solve with scroll-driven animations? A lot. Styling flex and grid rows and columns, staggered animations, wrap detection, and more — all in my new article.
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Over the past few years, I wanted to be able to select a value from a list in CSS by toggling a single custom property. We have the “space toggle” for booleans, and hopefully, one day, we’ll get style queries, but what about today? In this article, I present you with the technique I recently discovered.
with tags: #Anchor Positioning #Future CSS #Experiment #CSS Variables #CSS
Anchor positioning might be one of the most exciting features coming to CSS. It is currently available under an experimental flag in Chrome Canary, and after playing with it for a bit, I couldn’t stop myself from sharing what I found. In this article, I will show you some of my experiments.
with tags: #Practical #CSS Variables #CSS
One of the things I love about CSS is how some of the properties hide a lot of depth inside. For that reason, visibility was always one of my favorites. In this article, I will talk about one of its interesting aspects and will propose an idea: what if we would never use visibility: visible?
with tags: #Experiment #CSS Variables #CSS #HTML
Is it possible to sort some data using only HTML and CSS? The answer is “Yes”, and in this article you would see one experimental way to achieve this with CSS variables and an order property. Even if it is not practical and bad for accessibility, it is still fun.
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CSS variables are very powerful, and they allow to do a lot of interesting things. But there are no native conditionals that we could use in CSS with them. In this article I’ll talk about one of the ways we can fake such conditions with calculations.