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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the web’s core styling language. For web developers, It’s one of the quickest technologies to get started with, but one of the hardest to master. Follow Una Kravets and Adam Argyle, Developer Advocates from Google, who gleefully breakdown complex aspects of CSS into digestible episodes covering everything from accessibility to z-index.

Jul 30, 2020

Today we discuss: focus! Focus  is something we regularly deal with when writing styles and is also very tied to markup and attributes like tabindex, so we’ll be discussing all of those things in this episode!

Links:

User Action Pseudo-classes → https://goo.gle/3jNSHcL 

HTML Standard → https://goo.gle/3g7FzNr 


Jul 22, 2020

Today we’re talking about shadows! Box shadows, drop shadows, text shadows, and everything in between. Shadows can exist all over our UIs without us even realizing it because sometimes, they just look like borders.

 

box-shadow spec →  https://goo.gle/32JVdL4 

text-shadow spec → https://goo.gle/2ZMdiGo 

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Jul 15, 2020

Today we’re talking about borders! And while this sounds relatively simplistic, borders in CSS can actually get pretty complex very quickly. It’s not just color and style that you can adjust, but also also border images, where you control how the image repeats itself and what slice of the image you want to show.


Jul 1, 2020

In this episode we break down functional and regular pseudo selectors, CSS’s special hook into encapsulated element states. We can’t control them, but we can leverage them to provide rich interactive feedback from our interfaces.

 

Links:

Selectors Level 4 → https://goo.gle/2ZiJLmt 

a:link vs. a styling demo →