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This is the 3rd post in a small series we are doing on form accessibility. If you missed the 2nd post, check out Managing User Focus with :focus-visible . In this post we are going to look at using a … Demystifying Screen Readers: Accessible Forms & Best Practices originally published on CSS-Tricks , which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter .

This is going to be the 2nd post in a small series we are doing on form accessibility. If you missed the first post, check out Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes . In this post we are going to look … Managing User Focus with :focus-visible originally published on CSS-Tricks , which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter .

Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post we are going to explore the use of :has() in your next web project. :has() is relatively newish but has gained popularity in the front end community by delivering control … The Power of :has() in CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks , which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter .

Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post, I am going to take you through creating a simple contact form using semantic HTML and an awesome CSS pseudo class known as :focus-within . The :focus-within class allows for … Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes originally published on CSS-Tricks , which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter .

These things called passkeys sure are making the rounds these days. They were a main attraction at W3C TPAC 2022 , gained support in Safari 16 , are finding their way into macOS and iOS , and are slated to … Passkeys: What the Heck and Why? originally published on CSS-Tricks , which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter .

I spend a lot of time in DevTools, and I’m sure you do too. Sometimes I even bounce between them, especially when I’m debugging cross-browser issues. DevTools is a lot like browsers themselves — not all of the features in … Some Cross-Browser DevTools Features You Might Not Know originally published on CSS-Tricks , which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter .

Doing a quick search here on CSS-Tricks shows just how many different ways there are to approach calendars. Some show how CSS Grid can create the layout efficiently . Some attempt to bring actual data into the mix . Some … Making Calendars With Accessibility and Internationalization in Mind originally published on CSS-Tricks , which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newslette…

You know what it’s like to pick up a new language or framework. Sometimes there’s great documentation to help you find your way through it. But even the best documentation doesn’t cover absolutely everything. And when you work with something … 5 Mistakes I Made When Starting My First React Project originally published on CSS-Tricks , which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the ne…

CSS trigonometry functions are here! Well, they are if you’re using the latest versions of Firefox and Safari, that is. Having this sort of mathematical power in CSS opens up a whole bunch of possibilities. In this tutorial, I thought … Creating a Clock with the New CSS sin() and cos() Trigonometry Functions originally published on CSS-Tricks , which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should…

Fonts are a defining characteristic of the design of any site. That includes WordPress themes, where it’s common for theme developers to integrate a service like Google Fonts into the WordPress Customizer settings for a “classic” PHP-based theme. That hasn’t … Managing Fonts in WordPress Block Themes originally published on CSS-Tricks , which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the…

I was reading “Creative List Styling” on Google’s web.dev blog and noticed something odd in one of the code examples in the ::marker section of the article. The built-in list markers are bullets, ordinal numbers, and letters. The ::marker pseudo-element … Everything You Need to Know About the Gap After the List Marker originally published on CSS-Tricks , which is part of the DigitalOcean family. …

We’re fans of Custom Elements around here. Their design makes them particularly amenable to lazy loading , which can be a boon for performance. Inspired by a colleague’s experiments, I recently set about writing a simple auto-loader: Whenever a custom … An Approach to Lazy Loading Custom Elements originally published on CSS-Tricks , which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the new…

It’s a question I hear asked quite often: Is it possible to create shadows from gradients instead of solid colors? There is no specific CSS property that does this (believe me, I’ve looked) and any blog post you find about … Different Ways to Get CSS Gradient Shadows originally published on CSS-Tricks , which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter .

Every now and then, a one blog post is published and it spurs a reaction or response in others that are, in turn, published as blogs posts, and a theme starts to emerge. That’s what happened this past week and … Healthcare, Selling Lemons, and the Price of Developer Experience originally published on CSS-Tricks , which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter .

We often think of background images as texture or something that provides contrast for legible content — in other words, not really content. If it was content, you’d probably reach for an anyway, accessibility and whatnot. But there are … Moving Backgrounds originally published on CSS-Tricks , which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter .