Posts in category css

02 Jun 2025

Team Storybook - Share Storybooks with Microsoft SSO

Dev Storybook CSS TeamStorybook

Team Storybook is a way to host Storybooks in Azure and securely share them with your team and stakeholders using Microsoft Single Sign-On (SSO). If that sounds useful, you can sign up here.

31 Oct 2017

Forgotten CSS: Printing Your Website

CSS Dev

I'm not sure many people think about how their websites look when printed. It's worth doing, not just for the print side of things but also PDF generation [and others?]

05 Sep 2017

Remove Unused CSS Rules

CSS Dev

A monolithic style sheet is difficult to reason about, which is challenging as CSS files tend to attract bloat. Removing unused styles can help make the situation more manageable.

08 May 2017

Using lighten() and darken() in SASS

CSS Dev

Until recently I didn’t know about the lighten() and darken() functions in SASS. I’ve since found them to be increasingly useful in my component building workflow. As the names suggest, given a colour and percentage, these functions will return a colour lighter or darker respectively.

26 Jul 2016

Neat uses for CSS’s awesome viewport units

CSS Dev

CSS offers various units for sizing elements. The popular choices are px, %, pt, em and more recently rem. There are two other units that have quickly become favourites of mine, vw and vh. These are relative units, but unlike say em and rem which are relative to the font size of the current and root element respectively, vw and vh are relative to the viewport. A single viewport unit is equivalent to 1% of the viewport width (vw) or height (vh).

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