Rolling your own CSS Framework is a challenge. On multiple fronts. Although I've used CSS for decades, I have never really beyond application level css files. You know what I mean, typically a few hundred lines of CSS code - usually to "tweak" an existing design. For the past few years, I have...
Many of the solutions to vertical menus with submenus involve javascript to trigger submenus, either through mouseover or by direct click. The click action seems to be the most popular since it does not involve any transitions or animations. Click and it appears. There are also quite a few examples...
It's an ambitious plan. I am working on a CSS Framework. It's an unusual task, what I want is a CSS Framework that supports and respects HTML tags: semantic HTML. By that, I mean when I type in <section> ... </section> that I get a section with as little opinions as possible. No CSS...
Bulma CSS Framework has been my choice for a bit longer than two years now. My first introduction was with version 0.9.3, a few months before 0.94 was launched. Version 0.9.4 has been my "go-to" since. Over time, I had to write a few modifications and fixes to better use the package. Modifications...
The wannabe CSS Frameworks claim ease of use, intuitive syntax, efficiency and throw around the word "curated" like they have reached some sort of nirvana. Yet I've seen some of the dumbest code ever in their bloated treasures. Take, for example, the spacing features. One CSS Framework devotes an...
Through my research on CSS, I've run into quite a few sites that just don't seem to understand the difference between "rem" and "em" ... in particular, they reference "em" incorrectly. Historically, an "em" is calculated as the height and width of current font. In printing terms, the default is...
A lot of the CSS Frameworks throw the word "curate" or "curated" around like it is something special about their particular brand or feature set. Let's get real folks, there's nothing curated about any of the CSS Frameworks. Not even the one I am toying around with. Let's take a look at what a...
Wow, three articles today. Thought I would provide some clarification on file sizes. They are important, absolutely. Not everyone has a server properly configured to support gzip. A minified file would need all that wire to transmit without compression. Gzip is a super-compression technology...
After leaving school, I started an apprenticeship as a printer at the local newspaper. These were the letterpress days commonly known as "hot-metal". One of the tools I worked with was the saw you see at the right. It's a "glider" saw meant for lead and wood. The entire left side of the saw was a...
There's a proposed new color palette for the new CSS Framework. I'm not sure yet if this is the final version. The focus has been on the definitions. I have been using the HSL color space for just this reason. Each of the above colors is defined as an HSL color. HSL is an acronym that stands for...