Hello Reader,

About a month ago, I asked people how many years of experience they have as a developer, but I realized something: you might have been a developer for 10+ years (which almost 19% of respondents said they did) but still not feel comfortable with CSS, so I have a new poll for you!

I realize you might feel like you are in between two of the choices here, but pick whatever is closest in that case.

You should see the current results when you answer the poll, and I’ll share the results in a couple of weeks, because I probably won’t send out a newsletter next week.

I’m currently in Wisconsin for THAT Conference, but because it’s at a resort with a giant indoor water park, I’ve brought my family with me for a little family vacation as well.

I’ll have my regular YouTube videos up this week, but the newsletter will resume once I’m back home 🙂.

🙋‍♂️ What I’ve been up to this week

Live stream replay

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If you weren’t able to attend the live stream, you can get the full replay here.

The two main parts of the livestream were:

• HTML & CSS Challenge from iCodeThis
• html element memory game where I did terribly

There were a few small AMA sections sprinkled in here and there as well.

A background-image trick most people don’t know about

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You might think of using background-attachement: fixed for a quick and dirty parallax effect, but there are some other neat things that you can do with it, including making a mouse tracking glow that follows your mouse across different elements 🙂.

🔗 Other awesome stuff around from the web

• ​Old Dogs, new CSS Tricks by Max Böck, where he explores a lot of the reasons (excuses?) that people aren’t adopting new CSS features.
• ​Misconceptions about view transitions by Bramus dives into some common misconceptions have, like having to wait for browser support to improve, performance issues, and more.
• ​Fine-tuning Text Inputs is a nice breakdown by Gerret Dimon of some of the attributes that we have with inputs that people often overlook, including details on best-practices in using them.
• ​Yes! You can use position: sticky and overflow together is a quick look by Ben Frain at how you can use overflow: clip instead of hidden and have sticky keep working.

There is a difference between clip and hidden, but I’m starting to go down the use clip by default route, and switch to hidden in the use cases where I need it. clip solves most of the issues that can popup with hidden… I should probably make a video on this!

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Have a fantastic week!
Kevin

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