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Direct link to the article Open Props (and Custom Properties as a System)
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Open Props (and Custom Properties as a System)

Perhaps the most basic and obvious use of CSS custom properties is design tokens. Colors, fonts, spacings, timings, and other atomic bits of design that you can pull from as you design a site. If you pretty much only pull …

Chris Coyier on Dec 7, 2021
Direct link to the article If we’re gonna criticize utility-class frameworks, let’s be fair about it
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If we’re gonna criticize utility-class frameworks, let’s be fair about it

I’m not here to raise a shield protecting CSS utility frameworks. I don’t even particularly like the approach, myself, and nothing is above fair criticism. But fair is a key word there. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve …

Chris Coyier on Jun 22, 2021
Direct link to the article A Utility Class for Covering Elements
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A Utility Class for Covering Elements

Big ol’ same to Michelle Barker here:

Here’s something I find myself needing to do again and again in CSS: completely covering one element with another. It’s the same CSS every time: the first element (the one that needs

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Chris Coyier on Dec 26, 2020

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