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The Spirit of CSS Tricks is now gone

If you haven’t heard the news, Geoff Graham — the chief editor behind CSS Tricks — got fired by Digitial Ocean yesterday.

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Leading Trim is in the works!

Introduction to leading-trim and why it changes everything we know about Web Typogarphy

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Designing Learn JavaScript's course portal

Today, I want to share with you how I designed Learn JavaScript's course portal, my flagship JavaScript course.

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Multi-line gradient links

How to create links with gradients that spans multiple lines

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Style hover, focus, and active states differently

Why you should (and how to) style hover, focus, and active states differently

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Creating a custom focus style

How to create (and change) a focus style easily with CSS.

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Inconsistent behavior among browsers when clicking on buttons

Browsers are inconsistent in how they handle a click on the button element. Some browsers choose to focus on the button. Some browsers don't.

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On Advocacy

How to advocate for things we care about

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A new (and easy) way to hide content accessibly

Possibly the best way to hide content accessibly. The CSS is easy to write and understand!

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:empty and :blank

I made a terrible mistake when I tweeted about :empty and :blank a month ago. :empty is actually good enough.

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How to choose and pair typefaces

The act of choosing two typefaces is probably the first (and often most difficult) task you do when creating a new design. Many people get stuck here, myself included. Recently, I discovered a simple method to pair typefaces effectively and I'd love to share them with you. (Hint: it's a 9×9 grid).

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How to build a responsive grid system

One of the best complement for a custom web design is a custom-made responsive grid system. You can customize everything you need, including the number of columns, the size of columns and gutters and even the breakpoints you change your layouts at.

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Designing Grids

I'd be telling you the obvious if I said that grids are important in web design. You already knew that. You probably have even coded a few grids with frameworks like Foundation or Bootstrap. You may even have created a custom grid manually, or using a grid layout tool like Susy.

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An Indepth Tutorial to Typi

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Moving from HTML Grid Systems to CSS Grid Systems

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Is Web Typography Completely Broken?

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PX, EM or REM Media Queries?

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PX, EM or REM Media Queries?

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Viewport Unit Based Typography

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Why is Vertical Rhythm an Important Typography Practice?