Category Archives: CSS

CSS

Quick Tip: z-index

There are times when using z-index, it doesn’t always appear to work the way we’d like to.

So to define z-index, “it is the attribute that lets you adjust the order of the layering of objects when rendering content.” – Mozilla Developer Network.

According to Angelina Fabbro: CSS In Your Pocket – Mobile CSS Tips From The Trenches (video), we should “set z-index to the body element to properly stack elements”, for example:

body{
z-index: 0;
}

element{
z-index: 1
}

How have you used z-index in your projects?

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CSS

CSS Architecture

I’m attempting to compile a comprehensive list of how developers and front-end engineers structure their CSS using the SMACSS (Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS) approach.

What is SMACSS?

“SMACSS stands for Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS, and is more a style guide than a CSS framework. On a high level SMACSS aims at changing the way we are turning designs into code. Instead of working in a page mentality where you try to turn a single page design into code, SMACSS aims to identify repeating visual patterns. Those patterns are then supposed to be coded into flexible/re-usable modules, wich should be independent as possible from the individual page context. This is not a revolutionary point-of-view for a programmer, but in the web design world this is indeed a newer way of thinking.”

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CSS, Framework

Using Bourbon, Neat, Bitters & Refills

So why am I contemplating using Thoughtbot products when Bootstrap is so popular and much widely used in the web community?

  • Bourbon – “A simple and lightweight mixin library for Sass.”
  • Neat – “A lightweight semantic grid framework for Sass and Bourbon.”
  • Bitters – “Scaffold styles, variables and structure for Bourbon projects.”
  • Refills – “…prepackaged patterns and components, built on top of Bourbon, Bitters, and Neat.”

The idea of using clean and semantic markup that is based entirely on Sass mixins was pretty much the key factor which attracted me to try out Bourbon, Neat, Bitters and Refills.

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CSS, Sass

Start using Sass

I really wanted to point out the reasons why web developers should start using Sass and I came across the Clean out your Sass junk drawer slides by Dale Sande. It shows just how much the thought process of well structured CSS has changed over the years. So if you still work with fellow front-end web developer/engineers who aren’t using any CSS Preprocessor, point them to these slides.

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CSS, Framework

CSS3 Background-Image

While creating a prototype for a project (using Bootstrap), I added the Jumbotron component which is described as: “a lightweight, flexible component that can optionally extend the entire viewport to showcase key content on your site” and found that my background image wasn’t responsive at all.

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