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Trick of the day: CSS Scroll Snap Points

When you create a gallery, you usually want to implement a feature where every time the user clicks (or press the ENTER key) on an arrow, you move straight to the next (or previous) image. This effect can also be used to create a website that has several sections, each of which takes the full window’s height, where at each scroll you move the user to a new section. To achieve this goal, developers have always used JavaScript but the W3C has proposed a new standard called CSS Scroll Snap Points.

Trick of the day: CSS counters

Have you ever heard of CSS counters? It’s a feature of CSS for numbering non-consecutive items, wherever they might be in the DOM. It doesn’t have a lot of uses cases but it’s important to understand this kind of new features to understand how powerful is CSS today.

How to Solve the Problem of @font-face Inside Media Queries

Mobile connections aren’t as good as the usual desktop ones, therefore the download time of custom fonts can take up to several seconds. A good approach is to use the @font-face rule only for certain range of media and screens using @media queries. Unfortunately this approach doesn’t work for some browsers: all the versions of Internet Explorer and FireFox 10 and lower. This article discusses a solution for this problem that balances performances and hacks.