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There are two ways of using SVG in HTML via <use>: with external source and without it. “The use element takes nodes from within the SVG document, and duplicates them somewhere else” – MDN. In the first case, the SVG graphics insertion (duplication) usually looks like this: The good: the file sprite.svg will be cached by the browser. The bad: this technique does not work in IE11 and below (luckily

Auto-hide sticky header is a shot that shoots down two rabbits: makes site navigation easily accessible anywhere on the page and saves content space at the same. My client, Easy Shine, was happy to have this type of header for their website. I've also implemented this technique here, on my website (you can see it when the width of your viewport is below 768 px). Making header sticky <header class=

I would call this year a year of web performance. The very useful web performance solutions developed by people who make websites. The cult of website performance analyzers. The rise of mobile data users. The releases of faster mobile browsers. The better raking on Google for faster websites. The conferences dedicated to web performance. All of these affected my work and web performance has become

Turns out currentColor has been here for quite some time now, but I heard about it only a few months ago when I read Dudley Storey’s post. He states that it is supported very well across the browsers (IE9+). This was enough for me to start using it in production. I was quite surprised how useful the keyword is: it helps to keep CSS code shorter and smarter. Before diving into practical usage examp

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As for the image lightboxes, I have always lacked simplicity for them. I mean not only the visual design, but the overall experience: from implementation to UX. All due respect, but I have never liked any of these light-fancy-face-boxes. They all were solving problems that just don’t exist: lots of unwanted features by default, total mess in markup, no native behavior for touch screens. I was work

A couple of months ago I built a jQuery plugin that replaces <audio> element with a little of custom HTML code. By adding some CSS you get a whole new player which looks the way you want and has the same functionality as the default player. There is no direct way to style the element. But the HTML5 DOM has methods, properties, and events for the element and thus makes it quite easily manipulable.

What if you need a multi-level navigation? In most cases, you design a drop-down menu using unordered lists. But what do you do to make it usable on small and / or cursorless screens? By usable I mean being able to use hyperlinks on parental anchors and open them with a double-tap (which is a native act on touch devices), also being able to close the drop-downs by tapping anywhere outside them to

…or Pinterest-style layout. jQuery Masonry is a jQuery-based plugin for a dynamic grid layout built by David DeSandro. What it does is “arranges elements vertically, positioning each element in the next open spot in the grid” and what you get is “minimized vertical gaps between elements of varying height”. Let’s dive into that. Sheepy Me is a website where I constantly combine time-tested techniqu

Tooltip is a splendid invention. Small detail in web design that plays a big role when it comes to user experience. Usually, tooltips are used to present a tiny amount of hidden content (mainly explanatory, so-called tips), that pops up when user moves a cursor over or clicks (less common) on a special target. When working on my personal website, I was in need of a tooltip. I decided not to limit