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How to add Fonts to Codepen
For the codepen output, if you want to add fonts, like google fonts, you can do that in more than one way.
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Fix the health hazards of working with computers with this one thing
We’ve heard it all before: healthy diet, regular exercise and stress reduction, the pillars of good health. But even all those combined can’t keep us from the health issues that our work induces in us.
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Grouping browser specific CSS code with @supports
Another quick tip, today! This time it’s about the CSS @supports rule. The rule checks for the browser support, or the lack of it, of a given CSS property/value and applies some style if that check is passed.
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Naming boolean variables
Whether you’re naming human babies or variables in code, the struggle is real. Okay, that maybe was a little exaggerated — naming babies is much easier. So, let’s take a look at a naming rule for boolean that most folks follow and is kinda awesome.
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CSS width, relative to the content size!
Generally, we do a fixed width (ex. pixels) or container-relative width (ex. percentage) for a block element like div. So, to size the width of an element based on its content, instead, hasn’t always been a usual or straightforward thing to do.
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Using Base URLs in Codepen Pens
Using Codepen more and more, often to experiment and for demos to show the code I’m working with, I’ve learned to make my Codepen workflow smoother with little tacks here and there. One of which is finding a way to avoid repeating a same base URL in the HTML, in Pens. Here’s what I mean…
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4 Things Developers are Mistaken To Be by Defacto
Nope. I’m not talking about makeshift “electricians” and “plumbers” that our family think that we are but some other things that even you may’ve been misread as just because you’re a web developer.
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CSS Counter and Radio Buttons
I’ll be honest. The one ☝️ thing I’ve not much used CSS Counter for is numbering headings which ironically is the prime example shown in all its tutorials. Although counting header elements is EXTREMELY useful, I’ve found more use for Counter with other elements.
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How to Use Emojis as Icons
Icons have become an important part of web designs. Granted there are many online resources (both free and paid) for icons, we still should be able to use the one style of symbols we already have and are uber familiar with — emojis, as icons.
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