Category: CSS

How to vertically center text in CSS Grid and Flexbox

Take this simple HTML: And, some basic styling: It looks like this: Now, we want to center this text vertically. The first modern approach you can take is with flexbox. Just add these two lines to .parent: And, you get this: Simple. It’s very similar with CSS Grid: And, you can add as much text as you want and it’ll get vertically-centered properly. Like this: So, there you go. That said, if you want to go on learning even more HTML and CSS, check out my Website Template course on Skillshare. You’ll learn CSS Grid, CSS transitions, asynchronous requests in

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John Morris May 12, 2019

2 ways to horizontally center a DIV in CSS

Let’s take this simple HTML structure: The first method involves some straight-forward CSS: Doesn’t get much simpler than that: And, if it this is all you need to do, you can probably stop here. But, sometimes what you’re actually trying to do is a little more complicated and you need some more flexibility. Enter CSS Grid: Here, we’re creating a grid with 1 column that fills the entire space of the parent DIV. Then, a child DIV with a 60% width. And, using justify-items to center the child DIV. This might seem like overkill for something this simple, but it

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John Morris May 7, 2019

CSS transitions

CSS transitions are another simple thing you can do that can add some “spice” to your websites. Take this menu animation, for example: ​​​​​We build this in my latest SkillShare course and it not only “looks cool”, but it gives the user important visual feedback. These little things are how you start to make a website or application “feel” intuitive. Anyway, transition properties are pretty straight-forward: div { transition-property: width; transition-duration: 2s; transition-timing-function: linear; transition-delay: 1s; } Here’s what each property is: transition-property is the property of the element to transition. transition-duration is how long the transition will last transition-timing-function is the “effect”

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John Morris September 30, 2018

Building a responsive grid with CSS Grid

If you haven’t messed with it, yet… CSS Grid is pretty handy. Take this HTML, for example: <div class=”wrapper”> <div class=”box”>1</div> <div class=”box”>2</div> <div class=”box”>3</div> </div> We can easily create a grid like this: .wrapper { display: grid; grid-template-columns: 100px 100px 100px; grid-gap: 10px; } That’ll give you a grid that looks something like this: And, you can do even more complex layouts like this:​​​​ With just a few lines of code. Again, pretty handy. Anyway, one of the things I immediately wanted to do was build a Bootstrap-like grid system using CSS Grid. So, I did… and I put it

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John Morris September 29, 2018

NEW COURSE: Build an AJAX-powered freelance website template

Just released a new project-based course. In this one you’ll learn: How to submit form data using AJAX How to build a responsive grid with CSS Grid How to send a contact email using PHP How to build a mobile menu using CSS transitions How to build a website using HTML, CSS, jQuery and PHP And, plenty more. Full source code is included. You can get access to it for nothing here: https://skl.sh/2xM6Y3l Later, John P.S. If you’re a Patreon supporter, you can access the course here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/21697046

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John Morris September 28, 2018

The One-Line Difference Between Ugly and Amazing Websites

Forget personal taste. I’m telling you as sure as I’m sitting here… whatever your personal thoughts about the differences between this before and after… one will get you, “Um well… something just feels off.” And, the other: “Wow! Clean, fresh. Amazing!” It’s just how people are. Anyway, here’s the before: And, here’s the after: This is a template I’m working on for a new course I’m doing. And, the difference is a single CSS declaration, but it’s light-years in terms of how it looks and how clients will react to it. The code? body, p, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5,

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John Morris July 30, 2018

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