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Direct link to the article Systems for z-index
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Systems for z-index

Say you have a z-index bug. Something is being covered up by something else. In my experience, a typical solution is to put position: relative on the thing so z-index works in the first place, and maybe rejigger the z-index…

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Chris Coyier on Sep 24, 2021
Direct link to the article The Self Provisioning Runtime
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The Self Provisioning Runtime

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Big thoughts on where the industry is headed from Shawn Wang:

Advancements in two fields — programming languages and cloud infrastructure — will converge in a single paradigm: where all resources required by a program will be automatically provisioned, and

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Sep 24, 2021
Direct link to the article Comparing Methods for Appending and Inserting With JavaScript
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Comparing Methods for Appending and Inserting With JavaScript

Let’s say we want to add something to a webpage after the initial load. JavaScript gives us a variety of tools. Perhaps you’ve used some of them, like append, appendChild, insertAdjacentHTML, or innerHTML.

The difficult thing …

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Eric Markfield on Sep 24, 2021
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Our Learning Partner: Frontend Masters

Frontend Masters has been our learning partner for a couple of years now. I love it. If you need structured learning to up your web development skills, Frontend Masters is the place. It works so well because we don’t offer …

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Chris Coyier on Sep 24, 2021
Direct link to the article What is Your Page Title on a Google Search Engine Results Page?
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What is Your Page Title on a Google Search Engine Results Page?

Whatever Google wants it to be. I always thought it was exactly what your <title> element was. Perhaps in lieu of that, what the first <h1> on the page is. But recently I noticed some pages on this site that …

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Chris Coyier on Sep 23, 2021
Direct link to the article padding-block

padding-block

padding-block is a CSS logical shorthand property that combines the padding-block-start and padding-block-end properties into a single declaration, creating space around an element’s content in the block (top and bottom) direction.

.element {
  padding-block: 30px 60px;
  writing-mode: vertical-rl; /* Determines 
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Joel Olawanle on Sep 23, 2021
Direct link to the article padding-inline

padding-inline

padding-inline is a CSS logical shorthand property that combines the padding-inline-start and padding-inline-end properties into a single declaration, creating space around an element’s content in the inline (top and bottom) direction.

.element {
  padding-inline: 30px 60px;
  writing-mode: vertical-rl; /* Determines 
…
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Joel Olawanle on Sep 23, 2021
Direct link to the article Working With GraphQL Caching
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Working With GraphQL Caching

If you’ve recently started working with GraphQL, or reviewed its pros and cons, you’ve no doubt heard things like “GraphQL doesn’t support caching” or “GraphQL doesn’t care about caching.” And for most, that is a big deal.

The official …

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Jamie Barton on Sep 23, 2021
Direct link to the article Learn How to Build True Edge Apps With Cloudflare Workers and Fauna

Learn How to Build True Edge Apps With Cloudflare Workers and Fauna

There is a lot of buzz around apps running on the edge instead of on a centralized server in web development. Running your app on the edge allows your code to be closer to your users, which makes it faster. …

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Direct link to the article Container Units Should Be Pretty Handy
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Container Units Should Be Pretty Handy

Container queries are going to solve this long-standing issue in web design where we want to make design choices based on the size of an element (the container) rather than the size of the entire page. So, if a container …

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Chris Coyier on Sep 22, 2021
Direct link to the article Twitter’s div Soup and Uglyfied CSS, Explained
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Twitter’s div Soup and Uglyfied CSS, Explained

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When I came up in web development (2005-2010 were formative years for me), one of the first lessons I learned was to have a clean foundation of HTML. “What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like” is actually one of the most …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Sep 22, 2021
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