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22 Useful CSS Tips and Tricks Every Developer Should Know

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🚨🚨 Note: All the tips, tricks shared in this article are part of GitHub repository css tips tricks A handmade collection of pro css tips tricks for developers. Please checkout the repositiory and Give it a star if you find it useful 🌟

  1. Docs Layout Create a responsive documentation-styled layout with only two lines of CSS. 
.parent{
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: minmax(150px, 25%) 1fr;
}
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  1. The Custom Cursors Checkout the github repository css tips tricks to learn more about it. 
html{
  cursor:url('no.png'), auto;
}
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GIFimage with custom cursor

  1. Fill Text With Images 
h1{
  background-image: url('images/flower.jpg');
  background-clip: text;
  color: transparent;
  background-color: white;
}
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Note: Always specify background-color when using this technique as this will be used as a fallback value in case the image does not load for some reason.

  1. Adding Stroke to Text Make text more legible and visible using text-stroke property it adds a stroke or outline to text. /* 🎨 Apply a 5px wide crimson text stroke to h1 elements */ 
h1 {
  -webkit-text-stroke: 5px crimson;
  text-stroke: 5px crimson;
}
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  1. Paused Pseudo Class Use :paused selector to style media elements when in paused state likewise :paused we also have :playing. /* 📢 currently, only supported in Safari */ 
video:paused {
  opacity: 0.6;
}
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GIFplam tree on river

  1. Emphasing Text Use text-emphasis property to apply emphasis marks to text elements.You can specify any string including emojis as its value. 
h1 {
  text-emphasis: "⏰";
}
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  1. Style Drop Caps Avoid unnecessary spans and use pseudo elements instead to style your content likewise first-letter pseudo-element we also have first-line 
pseudo-element.
 h1::first-letter{
  font-size: 2rem;
  color:#ff8A00;
}
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  1. Fallback values for Variables /* 🎨 crimson color will be applied as var(--black) is not defined */ 
:root {
  --orange: orange;
  --coral: coral;
}

h1 {
  color: var(--black, crimson);
}
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crimson colored text

  1. Change Writing Mode You can use writing mode property to specify how text should be laid out on your website i.e vertically or horizontally.

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    /* 💡 specifies the text layout direction to sideways-lr */ 
h1 {
  writing-mode: sideways-lr;
}
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  1. Rainbow Animation Creates a continuously looping color animation for elements to grab user attention. Give a read to css tips tricks repository to learn when to use prefer-reduced-motion media feature 
button{
  animation: rainbow-animation 200ms linear infinite;
}
@keyframes rainbow-animation {
  to{
    filter: hue-rotate(0deg);
  }
 from{
    filter: hue-rotate(360deg);
  }
}
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GIFshop now button changing its color contineously

  1. Master Web Development Subscribe to our YouTube channel to take your web-development skills to the next level. One of the recent video series goes over creating the following open source portfolio template.

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  1. Zooming on Hover /* 📷 Define the height and width of the image container & hide overflow */ 
.img-container {
  height: 250px; width: 250px; overflow: hidden;
 }

/* 🖼️ Make the image inside the container fill the container */

.img-container img {
  height: 100%; width: 100%; object-fit: cover; 
  transition: transform 200m ease-in;
 }

 img:hover{
  transform: scale(1.2);
 }
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GIFcrimson colored shopping bag laying on grey tiles

  1. Attribute Selector Select HTML elements based on attributes using the attribute selector. 
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/* 🔗 targets all a elements that have a href attribute */

a[href] {
  color: crimson;
}
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  1. Clipping Elements Use the clip-path property, to create interesting visual effects, such as clipping an element to a custom shape like a triangle or hexagon. 
div {
  height: 150px;
  width: 150px;
  background-color: crimson;
  clip-path: polygon(50% 0%, 0% 100%, 100% 100%);
}
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  1. Detect Properties Support Use CSS @support rule to detect support for CSS features directly in your CSS. Checkout the css tips tricks repository to learn more about feature queries. 
@supports (accent-color: #74992e) {
/* code that will run if the property is supported */
  blockquote {
    color: crimson;
  }

}
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  1. CSS Nesting The CSS working group has been working on figuring out how to add nesting to CSS. With nesting, you'll be able to write CSS that is more intuitive, more organized, and more efficient. 
<header class="header">
  <p class="text">Lorem ipsum, dolor</p>
</header>
/* 🎉 You can try CSS nesting now in Safari Technology Preview*/

.header{

  background-color: salmon;

  .text{
    font-size: 18px;
  }

}
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  1. The Clamp Function Use the clamp()function for responsive and fluid typography. /* Syntax: clamp(minimum, preferred, maximum) */ 
h1{
  font-size: clamp(2.25rem,6vw,4rem);
}
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GIFgif font size changing based on screen size

  1. Styling Optional Fields You can style form fields like input, select and textarea that dose not have a required attribute on them using the :optional pseudo class. /* Selects all optional form fields on the page */ 
*:optional{
  background-color: green;
}
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  1. Word Spacing Property Use word-spacing property to specify length of white space between words. 
p {
  word-spacing: 1.245rem;
}
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  1. Create Gradient Shadows This is how you can create gradient shadows for an exclusive user experience. 
:root{
  --gradient: linear-gradient(to bottom right, crimson, coral);
}

div {
  height: 200px;
  width: 200px;
  background-image: var(--gradient);
  border-radius: 1rem;
  position: relative;
}

div::after {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  inset: 0;
  background-image: var(--gradient);
  border-radius: inherit;
  filter: blur(25px) brightness(1.5);
  transform: translateY(15%) scale(0.95);
  z-index: -1;
}
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box with gradient shadow

  1. Change Caption Side Use the caption-side property to place the table caption (table title) on a specified side of the table.

GIFChanging the tables caption side from top to bottom

  1. Creating Text Columns Craft nice column layouts for text elements using column properties. /* 🏛️ divide the content of the "p" element into 3 columns */ 
p{
  column-count: 3;
  column-gap: 4.45rem;          
  column-rule: 2px dotted crimson;
}
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