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Help Shape the Future of CSS-Tricks!

Posted on June 28, 2022 in Design

Hey, so it’s been a minute since we announced that CSS-Tricks is now part of the DigitalOcean family. Things are pretty much business as usual and hopefully it feels that way to you, too. Now that we’re getting settled, we’re eager to start poking at the future of this site.

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Fixing the Drift in Shape Rotations

Posted on November 4, 2021 in Design

Steve Ruiz calls this post an “extra-obscure edition of design tool micro-UX,” but I find it fascinating! If you select a bunch of elements in a design tool, then rotate then, then later select those same elements and try to rotate them back, you’ll find they have “drifted” a bit from the original location.

It’s because the selection of elements needs to rotate around a center (the transform-origin, in CSS parlance), but where that center is located is calculated differently post-rotation. The trick, if any particular design tool cares to fix it:

[…] here’s the fix: once a user starts a rotation, we hold onto the the center point; if the user rotates again, we re-use that same point; and we only give it up once the user makes a new selection.

There’s a related tweet thread.

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8 Little Videos About the Firefox Shape Path Editor

Posted on March 7, 2019 in Design

It sometimes takes a quick 35 seconds for a concept to really sink in. Mikael Ainalem delivers that here, in the case that you haven’t quite grokked the concepts behind path-based CSS properties like clip-path and shape-outside.

Here are two of my favorites. The first demonstrates animating text into view using a polygon as a clip.

The second shows how the editor can help morph one shape into another.

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