Christian Heilmann

Syncing CSS changes in browser developer tools with Workspaces

March 2nd, 2021

Lately I’ve been looking into improving the ways I use browser developer tools by using features I’ve never looked and/or forgotten. One amazing feature of those are Workspaces which have been around for a long time but don’t get as much use as I think they should. In essence, this feature allows you to use […]

Using position: sticky to create persistent headers in long texts

February 9th, 2021

The sticky value of CSS positioning is an underused gem. It treats an element as it if is positioned relative until it reaches a certain position on the screen and then turns it into a fixed position. I’ve used this on the developer advocacy handbook to keep headers in sight above the current section until […]

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