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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.

Frontend

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.

Performance, Frontend

Font Optimization for the Web

Strategies to load fonts as fast as possible, for fun and for profit

Frontend

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.

Frontend

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.

Frontend

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.

Frontend

An interactive guide to Flexbox

An interactive flexbox guide and playground to visualize and experiment with various flexbox css properties.

Frontend

React Hooks constraints explained

An explanation of why React hooks have limitations, such as why you cannot call them in an if-else statement.