#Development #Techniques
Conditional CSS grid template areas · A magic formula to “open the gates to layout heaven.” https://ilo.im/161t0f

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#Layout #CssGrid #CssNesting #ContainerQueries #LogicalProperties #ResponsiveDesign #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #CSS

#Development #Fun
CSS lessons for your parking fails · Proper car positioning may be easier than you think https://ilo.im/161t84

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#Positioning #Spacing #CssFloat #CssTransform #CssFlexbox #CssGrid #Development #WebDev #Frontend #CSS

I made a thing: scroll-driven, almost pure #CSS infinite circular gallery rotation - check it out on @codepen
https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/XJrYqGb

Using scroll-driven animations and the tiniest bit of JS for the infinity part of it.

Made with for this week's #CodePenChallenge.

cc @bramus

Here's a little thing I made for the 1st #CodePenChallenge of '25: pure #CSS tilt & zoom grid on scroll!

Check it out on @codepen

https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/jENzprY

Using pure CSS scroll driven animations, grid, variables, mathematical functions, container query units. Also uses an SVG filter for the dissolve effect.

Chromium only.

#tinyCSSsnippet I've been shocked to learn has been slept on:

```
.container { display: grid }
.stacked-item { grid-area: 1/ 1 }
```

I use it all the time to stack elements.

Stack faces of polyhedra before positioning them in 3D. Stack images. Stack slices https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/XWvKjJJ

Saw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An3QMWg3m1c linked last evening & gave the challenge a quick go myself.

My approach was a mostly #CSS one, with minimal HTML (no extra wrappers) and JS (used only to update top item index, ~200 bytes minified).

While it was working, it wasn't pretty, so today I polished the demo & heavily commented the CSS - check it out on @codepen: https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/jENaPjd

I've mostly moved from absolute positioning to grid stacking:

.wrapper { display: grid }
.stack-item { grid-area: 1/ 1 }

But there's still one case where absolute positioning stacking makes sense: a stacked item is a text node (not an element or pseudo, so there's no CSS selector to select it).

CSS Grid Generator:

“Set the numbers, and units of your columns and rows, and I'll generate a CSS grid for you! Drag within the boxes to create divs placed within the grid.” @sarah_edo

https://cssgrid-generator.netlify.app/ #CSSGrid #css #layout #tools #design #webdesign

#tinyCSStip Container queries on the body? Why, when media queries have better support?

Well, container queries make it an IF depending on the width of the body's content-box.

That is, subtracting the scrollbar IF we have one (we can't know).

**Heavily** commented @codepen demo https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/ZEgjpYL

Another super old @codepen demo I redid with modern #CSS is this yummy menu https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/AoxZQq

CSS grid instead of absolute positioning, clip-path instead of nested skew and un-skew, CSS variables to avoid setting a separate transform chain on each item... and more!

One #CSS property I use a lot is `grid-area`.

In this basic @codepen example, `grid-area` (through its `grid-row` and `grid-column` components) is all that changes value between the narrow and wide screen cases (for the nav items wrapper and for the search wrapper) https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/YzmrXZo