Articles Tagged
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How I Made a Pure CSS Puzzle Game
I recently discovered the joy of creating CSS-only games. It’s always fascinating how HTML and CSS are capable of handling the logic of an entire online game, so I had to try it! Such games usually rely on the ol’ …
Using Grid Named Areas to Visualize (and Reference) Your Layout
Whenever we build simple or complex layouts using CSS Grid, we’re usually positioning items with line numbers. Grid layouts contain grid lines that are automatically indexed with positive and negative line numbers (that is unless we explicitly name them). …
CSS Grid and Custom Shapes, Part 2
Alright, so the last time we checked in, we were using CSS Grid and combining them with CSS clip-path
and mask
techniques to create grids with fancy shapes.
Here’s just one of the fantastic grids we made together:…
CSS Grid and Custom Shapes, Part 1
In a previous article, I looked at CSS Grid’s ability to create complex layouts using its auto-placement powers. I took that one step further in another article that added a zooming hover effect to images in a grid layout…
Zooming Images in a Grid Layout
Creating a grid of images is easy, thanks to CSS Grid. But making the grid do fancy things after the images have been placed can be tricky to pull off.
Say you want to add some fancy hover effect to …
Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers
Dave Rupert with some modern CSS magic that tackles one of those classic conundrums: what happens when the CSS for component is unable to handle the content we throw at it?
The specific situation is when a layout grid expects …
Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement Powers
When working with CSS Grid, the first thing to do is to set display: grid
on the element that we want to be become a grid container. Then we explicitly define the grid using a combination of grid-template-columns
, grid-template-rows
…
In Praise of Shadows
Our dear friend Robin has a new essay called In Praise of Shadows. Now, before you hop over there looking for nuggets on CSS box shadows, text shadows, and shadow filters… this is not that. It’s an essay …
Conditionally Styling Selected Elements in a Grid Container
Calendars, shopping carts, galleries, file explorers, and online libraries are some situations where selectable items are shown in grids (i.e. square lattices). You know, even those security checks that ask you to select all images with crosswalks or whatever.…
An Auto-Filling CSS Grid With Max Columns of a Minimum Size
Within Drupal 10 core, we’re implementing a new auto-filling CSS Grid technique that I think is cool enough to share with the world.
The requirements are:
- The user specifies a maximum number of columns. This is the auto-filling grid’s “natural”