CSS Articles by Temani Afif

Creating a grid of images is easy, thanks to CSS Grid.

A loader is an important component of a website.

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Having a good background pattern can make a difference in your website design.

For this fourth and final article of our little series on single-element loaders, we are going to explore 3D patterns.

We’ve looked at spinners.

We’re looking at loaders in this series.

HTML offers a native element to show progression which is progress.

Making CSS-only loaders is one of my favorite tasks.

In this article, we’re talking about background clipping, CSS masks, and even getting our feet wet with 3D perspectives.

In my last article we saw how CSS background properties allow us to create cool hover effects.

The hamburger menu is a must when dealing with responsive design.

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If you are new to CSS gradients, you may have heard about something called radial-gradient().

In this post, we will study CSS techniques that allow us to update the style of such elements without extra HTML code.

We recently covered creating fancy borders with CSS mask properties, and now we are going to cut the corners with CSS mask and clip-path!

A lot of tricks exist to style images but in this post, we will see how to style them without a ton of code, using CSS effects.

We will explore different section dividers made using only CSS and some optimized code that's easy to manipulate.

In this post, I will show you how to create two types of ribbons with some simple CSS code where you don't need to bother yourself with tweaking a lot of values Read the full article online

Have you ever tried to make CSS borders in a repeating zig-zag pattern?

In this post, we will see how to build two types of loaders with only one element and a few lines of CSS code.

In this post, I will show you how to create a pie chart using CSS and only one element.

Most websites rely on JavaScript to toggle the visibility of the button based on the amount of scroll.

Since the introduction of media queries (literally decades ago), CSS has evolved to the points that there are a lot of tricks that can help us drastically reduce the usage of media queries we use.

Adding borders to complex shapes is a pain, but rounding the corner of complex shapes is a nightmare!

Nowadays, creating complex shapes is an easy task using clip-path, but adding a border to the shapes is always a pain.

Yes, another post about CSS loaders but this time you will build the loader!

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After the fragmentation effect, I am going to tackle another interesting animation: the blob!

You want a Typewriter effect for your text but you are lost within all the variations that use JS and the ones that use a complex CSS code.

In my previous article, I created a fragmentation effect using CSS mask and custom properties.

Like star rating, reaction components are something widely used in many websites so here I am with my own implementation: A CSS-only reaction component that works with emojis or any kind of custom icons.

I recently illustrated how we can achieve complex CSS animations using cubic-bezier() and how to do the same when it comes to CSS transitions.

I’m here to resurrect our old friend float to create the same sort of complex and responsive layout but with less complexity and without a single media query.

There’s one especially neat timing function that gives us total control to create custom timing functions.

Need to lay out an element to the right or the left, such that text wraps around it?

CSS Variables are great but do you know everything about them?

I have a similar idea, but with a different approach.

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It's always a hassle to correctly position a rotated text.

We all face such a requirement where we need to make a title below (or above) an image to not exceed the width of the image.

Flexbox is great.

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