Flexbox — Fast Track to Layout Nirvana?
Introduction HTML and CSS is a great content delivery mechanism in many ways — it is easy to learn, flexible and powerful. One thing however that it has never excelled at is complex layouts. If you want to create a simple typographic essay layout with a floated image or two, then fine, but producing complicated multi column layouts has always been fiddly and hackish, and frustrating to get working consistently and precisely across browsers. We usually tend to abuse floats and other constructs for this purpose, and bugs and rendering differences can really spoil your fun. To combat this, CSS3 includes a number of modules that exist to made different layout tasks much easier.
Material Design Lite
You'll find below a couple of examples of MDL Button elements: a Button with ripples and a FAB Button. Just copy & paste the corresponding source code in the <body> of an HTML page of your project and the elements will render as shown below. <button class="mdl-button mdl-js-button mdl-button--raised mdl-js-ripple-effect mdl-button--accent"> Button </button>
Notes on Using ARIA in HTML
2.1 First rule of ARIA use If you can use a native HTML element [HTML51] or attribute with the semantics and behaviour you require already built in, instead of re-purposing an element and adding an ARIA role, state or property to make it accessible, then do so. Under what circumstances may this not be possible?
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #7
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Hover.css - A collection of CSS3 powered hover effects
All Hover.css effects make use of a single element (with the help of some pseudo-elements where necessary), are self contained so you can easily copy and paste them, and come in CSS, Sass, and LESS flavours. Many effects use CSS3 features such as transitions, transforms and animations. Old browsers that don't support these features may need some extra attention to be certain a fallback hover effect is still in place. Licenses Hover.css is made available under a free personal/open source or paid commercial licenses depending on your requirements.
Using Flexbox: Mixing Old and New for the Best Browser Support
By Chris Coyier On Flexbox is pretty awesome and is certainly part of the future of layout. The syntax has changed quite a bit over the past few years, hence the "Old" and "New" syntax. But if we weave together the old, new, and in-between syntaxes, we can get decent browser support. Especially for a simple and probably the most common use case: order-controlled grids #The HTML
Less.js
Compile .less files to .css using the command line Heads up! If the command line isn't your thing, learn more about GUIs for Less.
Top 24 Simple, Yet Beautiful CSS3 Table Templates And Examples
HTML5 offers web developers a choice of pre-built elements that can be used to extend the functionality of a website beyond the ordinary, whereas in the old days we might have had to use visual imagery to explain things better, thanks to advancements in JavaScript (jQuery), HTML5 and CSS3 — it is now possible for developers to create and style dynamic HTML5 content without the need to use heavy programming concepts. One such element that continues to help assess online data better is “table” — the table element can be used to display raw data in a selection of different appearances; tables. HTML tables are not necessarily something that everyone will be using on their websites, however they are incredibly helpful when it comes to presenting data through rows and columns, and also for organizing data and information in a more accessible way. Bootstrap CSS Bootstrap is the most famous front-end development framework on the planet, it’s being used everywhere; well, almost!
A Complete Guide to Grid
CSS Grid Layout is the most powerful layout system available in CSS. It is a 2-dimensional system, meaning it can handle both columns and rows, unlike flexbox which is largely a 1-dimensional system. You work with Grid Layout by applying CSS rules both to a parent element (which becomes the Grid Container) and to that element’s children (which become Grid Items).
