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How is it done – A gradient border with a single element
It took me a while to figure out how CSS Tricks do these fancy looking gradient borders in their new redesign. And because I want to sharpen my design skills I made a sketch explaining how it works.
Monthly Digest - December 2018
My favorite content from December 2018 – enjoy and happy new year!
Three input element properties that I discovered while reading MDN
Recently I was reading Twitter and stumbled across a tweet by Dan Abramov. He shared a short code snippet that caught my eye. It included some JavaScript which accessed an input element from the DOM and read or changed some of its properties. What was exciting and surprising to me was the property
defaultValue.I immediately opened MDN to read more about this property of
HTTMLInputElementsand stumbled upon a few more properties that I wasn't aware of, which lead me to write this quick article.Develop, edit & deploy websites entirely in the cloud with the CodeSandbox, Contentful and Netlify trio
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