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When you want to limit text on your web page, you really want to show an ellipsis to let people know you’ve truncated the display. This is especially true in cases where the cut-off decided by the browser might cause confusion, alarm, or blushing. Consider the text “Get offers on shoes”, which could be displayed […]
For many years, Can I Use? has been the go-to place to find out whether a browser supports a certain feature, like CSS aspect-ratio. However, what do you do when you need to add some additional styling if the browser doesn’t support a feature? Well, in an almost paradoxical way – you can use the […]
The original question for the below answer was wanting to hide a link when a button that’s next to the link has a “selected” class. This is interesting because this requires a sibling selector, but sibling selectors in CSS are a bit funky… with a sibling selector, the target element is always _subsequent_. That means […]
We have now reached the tipping point with dark mode on The World Wide Web. Support has reached the point of broadness that means users who are browsing on their mobile phones are going to notice what you are doing to their eyes if you don’t support it. We will soon pass from “users are […]
There is a problem I have wrestled with a couple of times, which was frustrating to solve… but can now be easily solved using clamp, which is currently in an Editors Draft of the CSS Values and Units Module Level 4 specification. It is sat alongside similar mathmatical CSS nuggets, such as min and max […]
A common problem with images, especially if they are user-generated, is that they don’t have the correct aspect ratio for their intended purpose. Also, as we re-flow pages for many different devices, we often want the image to work with different aspect ratios. This is where the CSS object-fit property comes in very useful. There […]
Has you ASP.NET applicaiton reported that minification failed? If you are using bundles in application, you might come across this exception comment at the top of your larger-than-expected bundle file. /* Minification failed. Returning unminified contents. (List of problems here) */ It can happen for JavaScript or CSS, but it means minifier has found something […]
There is often a bit of confusion surrounding the CSS sibling selector, or ~ as it is known to its friends. Here is how it works. This CSS translated into English says: If there are is a paragraph next to another paragraph inside a division, make the text red Here is an example HTML snippet […]
The following script allows you to group all elements on a web page by a particular CSS value. So for example, if you specify ‘fontFamily’, you’ll get a list of font families used on the website, and a list of all elements using each one. You can specify other attributes if you would like to […]
So you have a CSS theme written using LESS. A simple example would be like the example below… you’ve extracted your variables into a file named “variables.less” and you use an import to make those variables available to your main stylesheet. If you decide to change something important, you can do that in the variables […]