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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Some Neat CSS Functions That You Should Know About

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about CSS functions, what they are, how to use them, and more! LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 02:13 - attr() 04:14 - calc() 06:05 - :is() 07:20 - sin, cos, tan, acos, asin, sqrt, pow 08:52 - clamp() 12:13 - minmax() 14:24 - fit-content() 15:35 - filter blur() grayscale() sepia() opacity() contrast() url() Links https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1256229763225657348/photo/1 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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0:00.0

Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday, open wide Dev fans.

0:04.0

Get ready to stuff your face with JavaScript,

0:07.0

CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, get workflows,

0:10.0

breakdancing, soft skills, web development,

0:12.0

the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is

0:18.1

Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El El Torloko Torlinsky.

0:25.0

Welcome to Syntax on this Monday, hasty treat.

0:29.0

We're going to be talking about CSS functions.

0:32.0

Now, some of these are going to be ones that you may have heard, some of them may be ones that you have not heard of, but they're all going to be pretty cool and we're going to discuss the what's wise and hows and where is that you have with some specific

0:43.6

CSS functions now there are a ton of these things so obviously this is going to be

0:46.8

a subset my name is Scott Tolinsky I am a developer from Denver, Colorado and

0:51.4

with me as always is the West Bals.

0:54.0

Hey, everybody.

0:55.0

Hey, Wes.

0:56.0

This episode is sponsored by Logue Rocket.

1:00.0

Now, CSS is such a visual medium, and it will make sense that your error and exception and

1:04.3

handling should be visual as well and that's very possible using Log Rocket. Now you're going to want to check

1:10.0

out Log Rocket at Log Rocket.com forward slash syntax where you'll get 14 days for free.

1:14.8

Now what is Logrocket?

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Well, it is the visual error and exception handling service

1:19.2

that allows you to see a session replay.

1:21.6

Really pretty cool.

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