ByBrian Krogsgard
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In a web project, styling forms is a common exercise but not always something enjoyable. WP Site Care has a good tutorial for those who struggle with the CSS and perhaps need to rethink their techniques.
Felix Arntz has a detailed post on CSS Custom Properties and how to use them to improve UX for both website visitors and content creators. Felix is “looking forward to seeing this feature being leveraged by WordPress themes more” as “it’s another important milestone for improving user experience across the web.”
Justin Tadlock walks you through creating a menu for your social networks, making use of CSS attribute selectors. He shows you how to do it all with the Genericons icon font. This is actually part two, but you can check out part one to see how it was done beforehand.
Front-end developers might want to read this article on modular CSS from Scott Vandehey. CSS at scale can be difficult to maintain, so modular CSS (which started at Yahoo and Yandex) was created to solve that problem.
WordPress 5.9.1 released. REST or AJAX? Plugin dependency feature plugin. Testing, security, new themes and CSS standards. PHP benchmarks and more.
I stumbled on this nice list of CSS tips that might come in handy.
If you would like to get a good handle on CSS Grids, check out this newly posted video of Wes Bos talking about that very subject at Laracon US. Wes also has a nice resource library where you can pick up more tutorials at cssgrid.io.
