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CSS white-space, word-break and overflow-wrap explained
How CSS white-space, word-break, and overflow-wrap work, and which one to reach for when text wraps badly or overflows its container.
How to Vertically Center Text in CSS Properly
Why text doesn't center properly in buttons and badges. Learn about leading space, font metrics, and how to fix it with text-box-trim and margin-block.
Font Optimization for the Web
Strategies to load fonts as fast as possible, for fun and for profit
Useful TypeScript Patterns
Type theory names are hard to remember, but some of them are very useful in practice. These are some types I've found useful in everyday TypeScript coding.
The many ways to deal with overflowing text
An interactive guide demonstrating techniques for handling long words and overflowing text, including truncation with ellipsis, line clamping, wrapping, breaking, hyphenating, and more.
How to get sticky elements to stick
Learn why your position: sticky element is not working, and the three techniques to use to make it work.
An interactive guide to Flexbox
An interactive flexbox guide and playground to visualize and experiment with various flexbox css properties.
React Hooks constraints explained
An explanation of why React hooks have limitations, such as why you cannot call them in an if-else statement.