CSS-Tricks Screencasts

CSS-Tricks Screencasts

CSS-Tricks Screencasts is focused on showing you tips, tricks, techniques about web design. Code samples can be extremely helpful, but sometimes it is even more helpful to watch someone as they code. In CSS-Tricks Screencasts will show you real live CSS and HTML code being written and tested right on the screen. Topics will vary but will always center around design and usability.

Episodes

August 16, 2021 31 mins

With MailPoet and WooCommerce, we can build a paid subscription newsletter into a WordPress website. Our only costs are transaction fees, whatever WordPress hosting we might need, and a yearly fee for WooCommerce Subscriptions, making it a very cost-friendly …

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I think Astro is a pretty cool bit of technology for building websites! Should we call it a framework? We’ll get into that in the video. How can we call it a framework if it asks you to “bring your …

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I paired up with David Jones-Gilardi of DataStax to go through one of the workshops they have put together (with Ania Kubów, who has a video you should watch as well) that does a good job of showcasing how …

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This is the video version of a blog post we did asking the question: How do you make a layout with pictures down one side of a page matched up with paragraphs on the other side?

It’s a satisfying answer because …

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I get a hands-on performance review with Tim Kadlec of WebPageTest! This is a real honor as Tim is a real performance guru who knows WebPageTest in and out. I’m all about getting a little free consulting helping y’all …

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I’m joined by Chris Sev from Digital Ocean to talk about their new App Platform. We’re going to use it to build a little website. The site will be blog-like: posts with IDs, titles, content, and the more dynamic …

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You apply position: sticky; to an element along with a top, left, right, or bottom threshold and it will “stick” in that position when the threshold is passed, as long as there is room …

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In this video, I’m joined by Preety Kumar of Deque to take a look at their DevTools plugin for axe. Short story: this is an amazing plugin that helps you quickly find accessibility problems on any website, then helps

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Cloudflare Pages is Jamstack hosting, meaning it’s a static file host that runs your builds and lets you do dynamic things with JavaScript and services. You might normally think of Cloudflare as something you put in front of your site’s …

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January 15, 2021 10 mins

Like so many things CSS, there is all sorts of little stuff to know, even something as minuscule as centering a list marker.

A reader wrote in with a screenshot of what they were trying to accomplish — basically an …

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December 21, 2020 15 mins

Joshua Comeau crowd-coined the term “boop” (high five, Adam Kuhn). These are sorta like hover/focus states, except that they aren’t. Your thingies — things like links, buttons, etc. — should still have those states. A “boop” is a more …

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December 10, 2020 10 mins

Fair warning: you aren’t going to need this every day! I just happened to be looking at a neat little SVG warping tool that had a feature where my mouse scroll wheel (or trackpad) could be used to zoom the …

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December 9, 2020 12 mins

I probably should have learned this long ago, but alas, here we are. Turns out you can tell what function you want JSX to use. Yep, JSX really only has one primary transformation that it does. It turns angle brackets …

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November 20, 2020 13 mins
  • static: the default
  • relative: allows you to nudge around with top/right/bottom/left, making z-index work, gives you a positioning context
  • absolute: top/right/bottom/left moves the element
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The Stackbit app helps you kick out a new Jamstack site very quickly. Pick a theme, a static site generator, and a CMS and it’ll get a repo going for you on the double. Stackbit has gotten much more powerful …

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Kyle is a JavaScript guy. He knows a ton about the web, and plenty about CSS too, but isn’t as up-to-date on modern CSS layout tools like flexbox and grid. We didn’t go from 0 to 100 here, but …

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September 25, 2020 16 mins

Stupid simple, right? It is! But it’s fun to think about for a few minutes and count a bunch of different ways we could do it. And what do I mean by a line anyway? We’ll mostly talk about a …

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September 24, 2020 7 mins

Jetpack can help automate your site’s social media.

It’s a pretty small feature compared to all the huge stuff Jetpack can do, like improve your site’s search, back it up, and protect it. But it’s a …

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September 23, 2020 63 mins

Tara Z. Manicsic joined me for this video, setting up the very basics of Scully, which is a Static Site Generator for Angular — nay, the SSG for Angular, as Tara pointed out to me.

I don’t know much Angular …

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As amazing as Git is for handling your source code, you can certain git (lol) yourself into trouble. What if you make a change to a file and you want to get rid of the change? What if you just …

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