A few years ago, I wrote about how we can use css to style broken images. The technique leveraged on the fact that any styling to the ::before or ::after pseudo-elements on the <img> element will only be applied if the image doesn’t load. So, we could...

I’ve recently been making some improvements to the search page of this blog, and wanted to implement a feature where the search term was highlighted everywhere it appeared in the results. Although libraries for this exist, I wanted to try to implement it myself as it seemed like an...

UPDATE: Some people have pointed out some genuinely great use cases for this property which I've listed at the end of the article. I still stand by all the points I made against the use cases I pointed out in this article, but I now believe there are some good...

Many web pages today have their content dynamically changed using Javascript. An example of this is the search page on this blog. When the page is initially loaded, the only content in the <main> section of the page is a search form. But, when you type in a...

A cache is a form of storage for “requests” and “responses”. When you visited this page, you made a request for /cache-api-101. The response to that request was the HTML document you are viewing in your browser right now. The cache API allows us to store these requests and responses...