Post pobrano z: Text Effects with CSS (and a little contenteditable trick)

Mandy Michael has been creating some incredible text effects with just the power of CSS. She uses every trick in the book: gradients, transforms, pseudo elements, shadows, and clipping paths to name a few. They are all real web text too. Custom fonts typically, but no images, canvas, or SVG or anything like that.

Take a look at this beautiful effect:

See the Pen CSS only 3D paper fold text effect by Mandy Michael (@mandymichael) on CodePen.

The fact that it is real text makes it accessible, searchable, and of course, selectable:

Demos are an awesome place to use the contenteditable attribute, which turns any text element into sort of like a textarea or input, in that then anyone can click right into it and change the text.

<h1 contenteditable>Cool Title</h1>

But because many of Mandy’s demos use pseudo elements with text that needs to match the text in the element itself, the text can get out-of-sync:

Never fear! It’s just a few lines of JavaScript to keep those bits of text in sync:

var h1 = document.querySelector("h1");

h1.addEventListener("input", function() {
  this.setAttribute("data-heading", this.innerText);
});

The input event is real handy, as it covers any change in an element’s value, even contenteditable elements. It has decent browser support, just no IE (Edge is fine). If you really needed this for IE, you could still get it done combining events like keyup, paste, and blur and stuff. But you probably don’t need to for a little thing like this.

Now we’re all good:

But before we go, let’s bask in more of Mandy’s creations:

See the Pen Lines and layered css text effects by Mandy Michael (@mandymichael) on CodePen.

See the Pen Stripy Rainbow Text Effect by Mandy Michael (@mandymichael) on CodePen.

See the Pen Single element, multi coloured 3d text effect by Mandy Michael (@mandymichael) on CodePen.

See the Pen Split fractured text by Mandy Michael (@mandymichael) on CodePen.

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Post pobrano z: Zeroing the Desk

Brendan Dawes:

After a recording session on one of those large mixing desks, after you’ve twiddled countless knobs and push around many faders you do something called zeroing the desk. This is were you turn every control and push every fader back to zero, so that when the next engineer comes in he or she isn’t going to jump out of their seat when a large sub-bass whacks them straight in the face and possibly blows something up. It’s a polite thing to do for your fellow sound engineer.

Reminds me of all: unset; 😉

(via Brad Frost)

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Post pobrano z: The Next Smashing Magazine

Congrats to the big team over there assembled to take on this major redesign process. Unlike our redesigns around here that are usually more like realignments with minor dev work and UX sprinkles each iteration, this was a ground-up rebuild for them. They migrated a bunch of different platforms all into one, a static-site based system with all front end APIs. It’s gotta feel good to pull all that stuff into one system. I remember when I used to have four different systems around here (WordPress, Forums (various), eCommerce (various), and some raw PHP stuff) and the good feeling it was to get it all yanked in under one WordPress roof.

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