These CSS PRO Tips & Tricks Will Blow Your Mind!

CSS PRO Tips & Tricks: Summary

Short Summary:

This video explores various CSS tips and tricks that can enhance website design and functionality. It covers techniques like using the resize property to allow users to resize elements, creating neumorphic effects with box shadows, building interactive elements with checkboxes, optimizing responsiveness with the min and max functions, achieving glassmorphism with the backdrop property, utilizing the not and has selectors for advanced styling, applying gradients to text, building interactive drop-down menus with CSS, numbering headings using counters, and creating smooth swiping effects with scroll snap. These techniques demonstrate the power of CSS for creating engaging and dynamic web experiences.

Detailed Summary:

1. Resizable Elements:

The resize property allows users to resize HTML elements vertically, horizontally, or both.
This works for elements with overflow values other than visible, such as hidden.

2. Neumorphism:

Neumorphism creates a levitating effect by using box shadows.
A light gray background is used, and two box shadows are applied: one with positive values for a light source effect, and another with negative values for a carved-in effect.
This creates a realistic, clean design.

3. Interactive Elements with Checkboxes:

Checkboxes can be used to create simple buttons and drop-down menus without JavaScript.
The for attribute connects labels to checkboxes, allowing for interactive behavior.
The checked pseudo-class can be used to show or hide elements based on the checkbox state.

4. Responsive Design with min and max Functions:

The min function returns the smaller value of two provided values, allowing for concise width definitions for responsive design.
The max function returns the larger value, similarly simplifying minimum width definitions.

5. Glassmorphism:

Glassmorphism creates a glass-like effect using the backdrop property.
Applying the blur function to the backdrop property creates a blurred background effect.
This works best for elements that are in front of other content.

6. not and has Selectors:

The not selector excludes elements from a selector, allowing for targeted styling.
The has selector selects elements based on the presence of other elements, enabling parent-based styling.

7. Gradient Text:

Applying gradients to text can be achieved by using the background-clip property with the text value.
The background-color should be set to transparent to reveal the gradient.

8. Interactive Drop-Down Menus with CSS:

The focus pseudo-class can be used to show and hide elements on click.
The focus-within pseudo-class allows for focus detection on child elements, making interactive drop-down menus possible without JavaScript.

9. Numbering Headings with Counters:

The counter-reset property creates a counter variable in the CSS root.
The counter-increment property increments the counter for specific elements.
A before element can be used to display the counter value alongside headings.

10. Smooth Swiping with Scroll Snap:

The scroll-snap-type property defines how elements snap into place when scrolling.
The scroll-snap-align property specifies the alignment of elements within the scroll container.
By setting the scroll-snap-type to mandatory and aligning elements appropriately, smooth swiping effects can be achieved.