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Hasty Treat - Stylin the Unstylables

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

English - May 17, 2021 13:00 - 21 minutes - 23.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 935 ratings
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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the different kinds of things that are difficult to style, how you can style them, and some future tech to look out for!

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Show Notes Can it be styled? Solutions

04:28 - Just style the defaults

Most elements can be styled, though some elements are really just multiple elements grouped together into the shadow dom and are hard to style. This leads to us having to re-create the visual UI, and often is a point of making inaccessible UIs. Select Input - number, date, etc. Very hard to style Often need appearance: none; for mobile Checkbox / Radio Generally speaking, these CSS Properties can be applied to all inputs: font-size color padding margin background / images outline (remember focus) border

08:20 - Overlap with more dom elements, set background images

Checkbox / Radio / Toggle buttons Often used :before and :after along with labels — e.g. label + input:checked Select can have element overlap

14:13 - Re-implement the UI with JavaScript

Video / Audio HUGE rabbit hole of things to code Very important to maintain accessibility

15:46 - Use a UI Library

Bootstrap Foundation Ant Design Carbon Design Fast Lightning Design System Material Design Chakra

17:20 - Open UI

Documenting all the different types of web UI controls https://open-ui.org/ https://twitter.com/stubbornella/status/1384889551924121605 Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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