Josh is great at explaining tricky concepts and here he’s really set himself a challenge: explaining layout modes in CSS.
A workshop on resilient CSS layouts
Oh, hell yes!
Do not hesitate—sign yourself up to this series of three online workshops by Miriam. This is the quickest to level up your working knowledge of the most powerful parts of CSS.
By the end of this you’re going to feel like Neo in that bit of The Matrix when he says “I know kung-fu!” …except kung-fu isn’t very useful for building resilient and maintainable websites, whereas modern CSS absolutely is.
This describes how I like to work too.
Progressive enhancement is a design and development principle where we build in layers which automatically turn themselves on based on the browser’s capabilities.
The idea of progressive enhancement is that everyone gets the perfect experience for them, rather than a pre-determined “perfect” experience from a design and development team.
Another terrific interactive tutorial from Ahmad, this time on container queries.
This isn’t just a great explanation of :has(), it’s an excellent way of understanding selectors in general. I love how the examples are interactive!
A genuinely inspiring event.
Using the CSS trinity of feature queries, logical properties, and unset.
Let me hear your blocky talk.
The terminology of applying CSS.
A clever technique I learned from Trys.