Posted December 14th, 2023
🎩 HTML Hacks – 10 Bizarre Tricks That Actually Work
Hey everyone ✌️ Here’s a quick look at this week’s newsletter:
☠️ Is Flat Design Dead?
📖 Typography in UI
✨ JavaScript Who? Coding with Less”
Enjoy this week’s edition 👋 – Adam at Unicorn Club.
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🖌️ CSS
You don’t need JavaScript for that
It’s one of the core principles of web development and it means that you should Choose the least powerful language suitable for a given purpose.
The overflow CSS property (shorthand for overflow-x and overflow-y) controls what happens when the stuff you put inside a box is bigger than the box itself.
Using :has as a previous sibling selector
I got very excited this week when I finally used :has. The trouble with it has been browser support, which isn’t yet high enough to use it in production code.
🎨 Design
Is the flat design trend finally over?
Designers might be at a crossroads with flat design and more detailed and three-dimensional design elements.
This book is about how to do good user interface typography, from basic things and principles to building layout and various design elements.
🧑💻 Dev
HTML & CSS for a One-Time Password Input
The design and user experience was considered, like using the arrow keys to move between the inputs and handling “paste”.
Many of these code quirks shouldn’t work, but somehow they do.
HTML Web Components Are Having a Moment
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