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HTML & CSS articles and tutorials ranging from new language features to using interesting packages.
CSS transitions is the new preferred way of applying transitions to your elements compared to the old approach of using JavaScript. In this article, I’ll go through each of the transition properties available, and provide examples of how to use them.
Prior to HTML 5, there was no real markup to help explain the intent behind your HTML code. The goal of HTML 5 was to offer a more readable way of writing your code, so that any author that comes after you can have an easier time going through what you’ve created.
You can also use interpolation to improve your functions for reuse, as well as your other code within your stylesheet. The way it works is that you can wrap your expression within {}, which will then be outputted as the identifier.
It’s super simple to create a configuration file for instance that would manage your media query break points. You could also use a configuration file for managing colors, font sizes, and other variables such as gutter spacing and more.
Stylus allows you to create functions and mixins of reusable code for your stylesheets. You can also handle mathematical operations, unary operations, and more allowing you complete control over your stylesheets with ease.
Unlike CSS, in Stylus you can assign expressions to variables that can be reusable throughout your stylesheets.
Selectors are a way to pick the elements that you want styled. In Stylus, similar to CSS, you can apply a set of styles to any element by separating them by a comma delimited list. Stylus though, also allows you to select multiple elements by separating each on their own line.
This mini-series will be a little different to how you may see other articles on my site. Really this article is more geared as notes for me as I go through the documentation for Stylus, and learn the in’s and out’s of this beautiful language.
BEM or Block Element Modifier is a naming convention used to help organize your code base. In this article, I discuss the uses for with in your CSS projects.
In this article we’ll go over how to configure your project to process Stylus files using Gulp. We’ll also create source map file which your browser will use to help point you in the right direction of your files when developing
Less is a CSS pre-processor allowing you to create variables, mixins, and functions in an effort to make your CSS more maintainable.
