In this week’s blog post, I want to cover how to center divs inside of other divs horitontally, vertically, and both horizontally and vertically. You can do this with CSS Grid or Flexbox but I want to go over how to do it with standard CSS.
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The goal of a CSS reset is to reduce inconsistencies with things like line height, font sizes, and margins. Every browser defaults to different sizes and spacing and if you set a common baseline, you end up with a better end-product. A basic example would look like: body, div, h1,h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p,ul …
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Looking back, the recent Bootstrap vs Bulma post left me wondering why you really need either. Two years ago, I did a post on what CSS Grid is and I figured that you can consider this to be an continuation of that.
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Last week, I posted something comparing form styling with Bulma to form styling with Bootstrap and I was a little perplexed that the Bootstrap docs steered me wrong. You can see what I mean in this pen.
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I haven’t been shy in the past about how I have really prefer Bulma over Bootstrap. I wanted to use this week’s post to compare and contrast the two and hopefully reset my opinion of Bootstrap. So, how am I going to do that? I am going to create a webform using Bulma and then …
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A few weeks ago, I started a series where I planned to cover Tailwind to the best of my ability. Over the years, I have used Bootstrap and Bulma a heck of a lot but I wanted to branch out a little. Today’s post is going to cover borders, shapes, and backgrounds. Let’s get started.
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Today, we are going to look at three ways to add a modal dialog to your app. The first option just uses CSS and JavaScript (no special libraries). The second option uses Bootstrap (a topic that I haven’t touched in a few years). The third and final option uses Bulma. I looked back at my …
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One of my goals for this year is to become more familiar with Tailwind CSS. As part of that, I am going to post a few things on the topic to the blog. This week, I intend to focus on fonts and typography.
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Recently, I was talking about how a random tweet got me thinking about CSS image carousels and at the end of that post, I mentioned that the second version of the image carousel would allow you to link to individual slides. I figured that it was time to show how to do that. See the …
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Recently, I was doom-scrolling twitter when I came across a tweet that claimed that you can build an image carousel using just two lines of CSS. I liked the tweet and then thought to myself “I can’t sleep, right now. Why not try it out?” CSS Tip 💡 Create image Carousel using two lines of …
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