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This is some bonafide CSS trickery from Harry that gives you some generic performance advice based on what it sees in your element. First, it’s possible to make a block visible like any other element by changing the display away from the default of none. It’s a nice little trick. Yo..

(Note: Unfortunately, e-mail and RSS don’t support advanced layouts and features. If the graphics in this article look strange, you may want to read the article in your web browser.) Key Takeaways 73% of top-grossing e-commerce sites have accessibility issues with links Some sites lack HTML markup that is accessible to screen readers A majority of sites lack sufficient information regarding link destination and purpose for users with screen readers — resulting in a trial-and-error navigational method. Some sites have insufficient link contrast with surrounding text — making it hard for users with visual impairments and scanning users to locate links. Our rating of 33 top-grossing sites, conducted during our research on Accessibility in e-commerce, reveals that 73% of e-commerce sites have broad compliance issues when it comes to links — resulting in a subgroup of users being unable to use links to navigate site contents and resources. Indeed, fully 67’% of sites have compliance..

Dumb trick alert! Not all browsers support all features. Say you want to write a fallback for browsers that doesn’t support CSS Grid. Not very common these days, but it’s just to illustrate a point. You could write the supporting CSS in an @supports blocks: @supports (display: grid) { .blocks {..

Design trends on top of design trends. This theme of this month’s collection is trends that seem to build on each other. These examples use multiple trends listed here: hero typography, round buttons, and big branding. Here’s what’s trending in design this month… 1. Hero Typography Big, bold, and ..

Animating elements with CSS can either be quite easy or quite difficult depending on what you are trying to do. Changing the background color of a button when you hover over it? Easy. Animating the position and size of an element in a performant way that also affects the position of other elements? ..

Dave and I slapped up a little videos section of the ShopTalk website. Twelve so far! They are short-ish, between 10-20 minutes, each focused on one fairly specific thing. We’re kinda just dipping our toes here — we don’t even have a real proper name for them yet! The place to subscribe to them is Y..

The WordPress sidebar has been a mainstay feature of both free and commercial themes. It seems that, no matter how the content management system (CMS) evolves, the sidebar has triumphantly (and, perhaps defiantly) come along for the ride. How has it survived this long? For one, it continues to serv..

Every day design fans submit incredible industry stories to our sister-site, Webdesigner News. Our colleagues sift through it, selecting the very best stories from the design, UX, tech, and development worlds and posting them live on the site. The best way to keep up with the most important stories..

How To Use The Vite Build Tool with React — Vite is hot, in part, because it’s based on esbuild and wickedly fast. It’s from Evan You of Vue fame, but it’s not a Vue-specific tool. Here, NARUHODO covers how to configure it to work with React.React Architecture: How to Structure and Organize a React ..

While I’m a front-end developer at heart, I’ve rarely had the luxury of focusing on it full time. I’ve been dipping in and out of JavaScript, never fully caught up, always trying to navigate the ecosystem all over again each time a project came up. And framework fatigue is real! So, instead of final..