Today I wanted a form with a label on the left, a button on the right, and an input in the middle, with the input getting all the space. Here is a spell: Then in HTML, the parent container is the flex box, and the immediate children are the three items. (They have to be … Read moreCSS for giving the extra width to the thing in the middle
I like this enough that I’m putting it here for reference. If anyone tells me how to improve it, I’ll update it here. The goal is to get some text to have a blurry white background behind it, like this text here. That’s especially useful when there’s an image behind it. Look! A CSS custom … Read moreFuzzy translucent background behind text in CSS
Sometimes in software design we get this idea, “We’ll make this a rule engine. Then the business can write the rules, and they’ll be able to change them without changing the code. That’ll make it more flexible.” 🤣 The rules are code; they change the behavior of the system. Rules interact in ways that are … Read moreRules are not easy
All I want is a web page. I want this one thing on the left and this other thing on the right — why is this so hard?? Can I just make a table in HTML like I used to do in the nineties? Why do I have to worry about stylesheets? and, why are … Read moreWhy is CSS a thing?
I’ve been frustrated every time I try to grasp CSS for years. “I just want this on the left and this to be over here!” etc. Now I realize that CSS doesn’t work that way for very good reasons. In most programming, we give instructions for what we want to happen. But in CSS, it’s … Read moreCSS Positioning: a summary