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html5 Apr 8, 2022

The Correct way to Toggle Display with JavaScript

Exploring bugs in the traditional show/hide methods along with fixes to toggle display with JavaScript correctly at any given event.

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Guide Jun 2, 2020

CSS Flip Animation: Super SMOOTH 3d Flipping Cards

Easy-peasy CSS-only 3d Card flip Animation effect with three free, beautiful, downloadable mock-ups. No bootstrap required!

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javascript Mar 27, 2019

Create jQuery slideToggle in Pure Javascript

A detailed tutorial explaining the creation of pure JavaScript SlideToggle feature without any involvement of jQuery or any additional JS library.

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Guide Mar 1, 2019

The Correct Way to Center-align Web Layouts

A how to guide to center a website: the right and robust method to achieve centered layouts with no hacky stuff but just CSS.

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css Dec 30, 2018

Quick and Beautiful CSS Floating Labels for Input Fields

Use these smooth, interactive, ready-made pure CSS floating label (or placeholder) effects for HTML form elements.

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javascript Dec 28, 2018

Load Disqus on Click and Scroll Events

This guide is all about loading Disqus comments the right way based on the actions performed by the user. In other words, loading the comments on either...

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css Dec 25, 2018

A Guide to Create and Use SVG Sprites

Planning to switch to SVG for the graphic assets on your website? I guess SVG sprites is one of those things you should know then--which this guide is all...

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css Dec 24, 2018

Quickly Create Christmas Snowfall with Pure CSS

I was looking at some JavaScript-based snowfall effects on web when the idea of writing this article clicked my mind--doing Christmas snowfall effect in pure...

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css Dec 23, 2018

Left-to-right Masonry Layout using CSS Grid

Doing a masonry layout with CSS Grid module seems quite an interesting task. I’ve covered creating masonry with CSS columns and Flexbox, but this is going to...

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sublime-text Dec 20, 2018

Classic Sublime Text themes that still hold up in 2026

A handpicked collection of the best Sublime Text themes with quick image previews, short reviews, and download links.

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css Jun 16, 2018

CSS Sprites: Creating PNG Sprites and Using with CSS

Often times our designs carry elements like icons, image roll-overs, and decorated CTAs. CSS sprites come in very handy to achieve all those things.

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css Apr 13, 2018

A Quick Guide to CSS Attribute Selectors

Modern day CSS enhancements has made it pretty easy to play with the selectors. Before that, we didn't have that much control over selection in CSS, and had to...

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