Your layouts are only as reliable as your understanding of the CSS box model. In this project, you will build a compact product card with a circular media thumb, stacked text, pills, and a tooltip with a pointer. Along the way, you will learn how content, padding, border, and margin interact; how box-sizing changes the … Read more
Hard cuts ruin good UI. If a shape or panel appears out of nowhere, users feel the jolt. By the end of this article you will build two production-ready patterns that animate clip-path with smooth, reliable transitions: a circular reveal that grows from the center of an image, and a polygon panel that morphs from … Read more
Centering content inside a box should be simple. With display: grid and place-items: center, it is a one-line solution. In this tutorial you will learn what both properties do, when to use them, and how to build a responsive gallery of “shape cards” where each card perfectly centers its content in both directions. Why display: … Read more
You want perfectly responsive shapes without hacks, spacer divs, or fragile padding tricks. The aspect-ratio property gives you a single, readable line that locks height to width, which means square avatars, circular badges, and media frames that scale cleanly with the layout. By the end of this article, you will build a small gallery of … Read more
conic-gradient() draws color around a center point, which makes it a perfect tool for pie charts and single slices. By the end of this article you will build a flexible pie and donut chart powered by custom properties, plus a reusable “slice” component for tooltips, badges, or loaders. You will understand angles, color stops, and … Read more
You have seen CSS triangles everywhere: carets next to dropdowns, tooltip tails, ribbon notches, and arrows. Many snippets call it the “border triangle” hack, but few explain the geometry. In this guided build, you will learn exactly why a zero-size box plus borders creates a triangle, how to control its direction and dimensions, and how … Read more
Rotations that swing from the wrong corner, scales that clip out of view, and tooltips that refuse to point at the right spot all come from the same root cause: not understanding where an element pivots. By the end of this guide you will control CSS transform and transform-origin with confidence. You will build a … Read more
CSS calc() solves layout math you usually offload to JavaScript or preprocessors. By the end of this article you will build a responsive card grid that uses calc() for column sizing, padding that scales with the viewport, a progress meter that reads a numeric custom property, and a tooltip with a triangle pointer positioned using … Read more
Shadow choice affects how real your UI feels. Pick the wrong one and icons look like rectangles with fuzzy edges. Pick the right one and stickers, badges, and odd shapes read as physical objects. By the end of this article you will know when to reach for filter: drop-shadow() and when box-shadow wins. You will … Read more
Images are not your only option for rich backgrounds. With a single background property, you can stack multiple gradients to paint skies, rays, textures, borders, and shine. In this tutorial you will learn how to combine linear, radial, repeating, and conic gradients into one layered background that powers a poster-style hero and a glossy button, … Read more