A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
color-scheme-dependent colors with light-dark()
I’ve written about light-dark() before here on bram.us, and last month I also wrote an article for web.dev about it. The article takes a bit of a different approach, so it’s still worth a read even when you’ve seen my previous one before. System colors have the ability to react to the current used color-scheme …
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Dark Mode Toggle Buttons should be a browser feature. Thanks to the Web Preferences API, that might become a reality someday.
::backdrop now inherits from its originating element
Screenshot of the demo featured in the article. In Chrome 122 the backdrop is light purple because it can access the custom property from the dialog element. If you ever struggled with ::backdrop not having access to custom properties, here’s some good news: As of Chrome 122 – and also in Firefox 120 and soon …
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Nuanced piece by Tero Piirainen on where Tailwind took a good practice, twisted it around, and took it for a run. Use it or don’t, love it or hate it, but this last sentence of the article hits close to home: Learn to write clean HTML and CSS and stay relevant for years to come. …
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Great article by Jake, packed with demos on how to handle changes in aspect ratios between the old and new snapshots in View Transitions. View transitions: Handling aspect ratio changes →
Can you Syntax Highlight a code snippet on the web without overloading the DOM with a ton of <span> elements wrapped around the tokens? Thanks to the Custom Highlight API, you can!
overflow: clip, not overflow: hidden
If you create a scroll-driven animation and find that scroll(nearest) is not working, check for overflow: hidden elements up the DOM tree and change them to overflow: clip.
So, you’ve found a custom easing function defined in JavaScript. Great! But how do you use that with the Web Animations API (WAAPI)? Turns out that’s more difficult than you’d first expect it to be.