Building Resizeable Components with Relative CSS Units

Ahmad Shadeed explores a concept that lets you resize your components by using CSS relative units (%, em, or rem).

The Math of CSS Locks

A detailed description of the inner workings of CSS locks, a Responsive Web Design technique that lets you transition smoothly between two property values when the screen gets smaller or bigger.

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Articles & Tutorials

Current Color: The First CSS Variable

Glen Maddern talks about the currentColor, one of the most powerful yet underutilized features of CSS.

Fun with CSS: NBA Edition

Chen Hui Jing explains how to recreate a demo Ethan Marcotte used to illustrate his point on progressive enhancement in his Laziness in the Time of Responsive Design talk.

Captivatingly Colourful Campaigns: Our Guide to Using CSS Filters in Email

Jennifer Birks shows how can you use CSS Filters in your newsletters. Client support is, surprisingly, quite good.

Fullscreen Background Video with mix-blend-mode Overlay Text

Dudley Storey demonstrates how easy it is to create a beautiful text-over-video effect using CSS mix-blend-mode.

Interview with Harry Roberts Before Webexpo Prague: about Refactoring CSS and ITCSS

A nice interview with Harry Roberts on refactoring CSS and ITCSS, a methodology for organizing large CSS codebases.

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Tools

Tabular Input

Lightweight jQuery plugin for building a tabular input method.

Multiple.js

An interesting experiment in sharing background across multiple elements using CSS.

Inspiration

CSStargate

Nils Schönwald created a fully functional Stargate (and a DHD) with CSS (and a bit JS).

Until Next Week

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