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CSS for printing to paper
I do like articles explaining how to use CSS for printing!
Continue readingCSS Infinite 3D Sliders
CSS-Tricks is really a huge treasure
Minding the “gap” | CSS-Tricks
You might already know about the CSS gap property. It isn’t exactly new, but it did gain an important new ability last year: it now works in Flexbox in
Source: Minding the “gap” | CSS-Tricks
5 Awesome CSS tricks
Do awesome things in fewer code lines with CSS
Source: 5 Awesome CSS tricks every developer should know | by FAM | Apr, 2021 | Level Up Coding
2 CSS Tricks You Must Know 2021
Taken from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVnzbPOeDYk
- background-blend-mode
- clip-path (Clippy – Bennett Feely may be useful here)
The video from CodeWellTech propose also Google Fonts. But we should lower our dependency on the great mother-in-law.
A table with both a sticky header and a sticky first column
Let’s use one of them
Some months ago I posted a quick note about the Amazing Templates found on html5up.net. If you call almost four years “some months”. Now I think I shall pick one of them and turn it into a WordPress theme for my parish, so I might learn something. I think they might like:
CSS Pseudo-Selectors You Might Have Missed – Bits and Pieces
Useful CSS pseudo-classes that are often overlooked.
Source: CSS Pseudo-Selectors You Might Have Missed – Bits and Pieces
Borders
I do like Gutenberg, the “next-gen” WordPress editor. Yet it is still in its infancy as there are many little graphical customization that its basic blocks does not allow for. Neither the old editor allowed them, I must acknoledge, but you could switch to the HTML code and add a <div style="border: red double thick;">
to get something like

I could keep doing it but I would have lost all the ease-of-use that Gutenberg bring us. So a quick search with my favourite duck told me to try “Multipurpose Gutenberg Block” as it allow to define borders, padding, background gradients and so on.
I hope all those features will come to basic Gutenberg blocks. But they won’t be “basic” anymore and most probably they won’t came as all those features would add too many sliders and options to the “paragraph” block.
Many WordPress developers would not like all that complexity as it is often unneeded. And unneeded complexity makes software harder to use and slower.
I also suspect that those borders aren’t stylish enough, according to “modern webpage typesetting”. Oh, all those fashions! Don’t show pages like “Space Jam” to young web developers: they could die on the spot for the shock!
