Last week, I wasted about an hour of my time figuring out why a certain element had different dimensions than the same element elsewhere in the DOM. It had the same CSS and the same defined width and height, but it still rendered differently.
Chris Coyier recently posted about creating a “random post” link on a site that would link to a different URL using only HTML/CSS: A Button That Links to a Random Post in HTML & CSS Only . Here’s my take on that.
Something I knew is that in browser that support CSS nesting you can nest @media queries inside of other CSS declarations. What I only fully grasped a few days ago is how well this works for progressive enhancement.
Like many front-end developers, I don’t have a formal computer science background. I rolled into this discipline as a designer wanting more control over the end product. Because of that, a lot of computer science things are lost on me.
The State of CSS survey results are always fun to read through, and the ‘pick of the year’ by everyone in particular. Whenever Sacha asks me if I have one I blank, and then a few days later there’s an obvious answer.
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