Category: CSS, Javascript, (x)HTML
Coding a website or internet app can be a challenge. CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) comes to the rescue. One of the major enhancements in CSS technology is the Flexbox.
I've always rejected using a CSS Framework. As a website and web applications developer, our staff of designers and coders tried their best to steer the company towards using Bootstrap, a move I regularly rejected.
I'm more apt to use a framework these days. They do make development more rapid than without the framework.
However, I still find most CSS frameworks to be incomplete and close to junk. This category exists to offer some suggestions, code snippets and my opinions.
There are 10 posts in this category:
Tuesday April 30 2024

Many of the solutions to vertical menus with submenus involve javascript to trigger submenus, either through mouseover or by direct click. The click action seems to be the most popular since it does not involve any transitions or animations. Click and it appears.
There are also quite a few examples...
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Monday April 29 2024
It's an ambitious plan. I am working on a CSS Framework. It's an unusual task, what I want is a CSS Framework that supports and respects HTML tags: semantic HTML. By that, I mean when I type in <section> ... </section> that I get a section with as little opinions as possible. No CSS...
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Thursday April 25 2024
Bulma CSS Framework has been my choice for a bit longer than two years now. My first introduction was with version 0.9.3, a few months before 0.94 was launched. Version 0.9.4 has been my "go-to" since. Over time, I had to write a few modifications and fixes to better use the package. Modifications...
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Thursday April 25 2024
The wannabe CSS Frameworks claim ease of use, intuitive syntax, efficiency and throw around the word "curated" like they have reached some sort of nirvana. Yet I've seen some of the dumbest code ever in their bloated treasures.
Take, for example, the spacing features. One CSS Framework devotes an...
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Wednesday April 24 2024
Through my research on CSS, I've run into quite a few sites that just don't seem to understand the difference between "rem" and "em" ... in particular, they reference "em" incorrectly.
Historically, an "em" is calculated as the height and width of current font. In printing terms, the default is...
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Monday April 22 2024
A lot of the CSS Frameworks throw the word "curate" or "curated" around like it is something special about their particular brand or feature set. Let's get real folks, there's nothing curated about any of the CSS Frameworks. Not even the one I am toying around with.
Let's take a look at what a...
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Sunday April 21 2024
Wow, three articles today.
Thought I would provide some clarification on file sizes. They are important, absolutely. Not everyone has a server properly configured to support gzip. A minified file would need all that wire to transmit without compression.
Gzip is a super-compression technology...
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Saturday April 20 2024

There's a proposed new color palette for the new CSS Framework.
I'm not sure yet if this is the final version. The focus has been on the definitions. I have been using the HSL color space for just this reason. Each of the above colors is defined as an HSL color. HSL is an acronym that stands for...
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Saturday April 20 2024
I've been working on my roll-your-own CSS Framework project and found a few anomalies with unexpected results from my normalize (I use "sanitize.css"). I'm not sure what line they are on (I usually post that) because I've edited the header to indicate changes. I'll post information to identify the...
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Saturday April 20 2024

I put that question into a Google search. Well, partial. My question was actually "Is a CSS Framework really necessary". Some of the hits were answers that I wasn't expecting at all.
Let me point out that I am pretty much retired. I am not peering forward at a career or considering direction....
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