Issue 22
News
Issue 22
A short email this week, I think people are far too busy enjoying the holiday season to be writing up interesting CSS tutorials. I hope that if you are celebrating at this time of year you have had a enjoyable holiday - and I'll be back next week with the first CSS Layout News of 2016!
Rachel Andrew, CSS Layout News
The New CSS Layout
My talk from dotCSS on CSS Grid, Flexbox and the Box Alignment Model is now online. Take a look.
Learn
Choosing between min-width and max-width media queries | The Haystack
A good explanation of one of the many "it depends" issues in web design. How to decide between min and max-width media queries.
`flex-grow` is weird. Or is it? | CSS-Tricks
An in-depth explanation of how flex-grow works in Flexbox.
Interesting
Sticky Positioning with Nothing but CSS - Envato Tuts+ Web Design Tutorial
A new value for the position property that I would love to see have better browser support is "sticky". Here is a quick tutorial explaining how it works.
A Web Design History Lesson: 20 Years in Web Design
A fun look back at almost 20 years of web design. I started in 1996 too so can remember the days of nested tables all too well!
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