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Chris Coyier's CSS Starter
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cc-css-starter.css
/* https://codepen.io/editor/chriscoyier/pen/0198772a-a759-7dc4-b8fc-1dfdbed39fdb
** https://shoptalkshow.com/681/ */
@layer reset {
html {
color-scheme: light dark;
font:
clamp(1rem, 1rem + 0.5dvw, 2rem) / 1.4 system-ui,
sans-serif;
tab-size: 2;
hanging-punctuation: first allow-end last;
word-break: break-word;
}
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 2rem;
@media (width < 500px) {
padding: 1rem;
}
}
*,
*::before,
*::after {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
h1,
h2 {
font-weight: 900;
letter-spacing: -0.02rem;
}
h1,
h2,
h3 {
line-height: 1.1;
}
h1,
h2,
h3,
h4,
h5,
h6 /* FUTURE :heading */ {
text-wrap: balance;
margin-block-start: 0;
}
p,
li,
dd {
text-wrap: pretty;
max-inline-size: 88ch;
}
a {
color: oklch(0.68 0.17 228);
text-underline-offset: 2px;
&:not(:is(:hover, :focus)) {
text-decoration-color: color-mix(in srgb, currentColor, transparent 50%);
}
}
sub,
sup {
font-size: 75%;
line-height: 0;
position: relative;
vertical-align: baseline;
}
sub {
inset-block-end: -0.25em;
}
sup {
inset-block-start: -0.5em;
}
ul,
ol,
dl {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: inside;
ul,
ol,
dl {
padding-inline-start: 2ch;
}
}
img,
video,
iframe {
display: block;
max-inline-size: 100%;
block-size: auto;
border-style: none;
}
figure {
inline-size: fit-content;
margin-inline: auto;
}
figcaption {
contain: inline-size;
font-size: 90%;
}
input,
select,
textarea,
button {
font: inherit;
/* FUTURE: apperance: base; */
}
label {
display: block;
}
input:not(
:where(
[type="submit"],
[type="checkbox"],
[type="radio"],
[type="button"],
[type="reset"]
)
) {
inline-size: 100%;
}
button,
input:where(
[type="submit"],
[type="reset"],
[type="button"]
) {
background: CanvasText;
color: Canvas;
border: 1px solid transparent;
}
textarea {
field-sizing: content;
min-block-size: 5lh;
inline-size: 100%;
max-inline-size: 100%;
}
pre,
code,
kbd,
samp {
font-family: ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, monospace;
}
svg {
fill: currentColor;
}
[aria-disabled="true" i],
[disabled] {
cursor: not-allowed;
}
[hidden] {
display: none !important;
}
[disabled],
label:has(input[disabled]) {
opacity: 0.5;
[disabled] {
opacity: 1;
}
}
pre {
white-space: pre-wrap;
background: CanvasText;
color: Canvas;
padding: 1.5rem;
}
hr {
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px 0 0;
color: inherit;
height: 0;
overflow: visible;
margin-block: 2.5rem;
}
:target {
scroll-margin: 3rlh;
}
table {
caption-side: bottom;
border-collapse: collapse;
td {
font-size: 90%;
}
td,
th {
word-break: normal;
border: 1px solid gray;
padding: 0.5rem;
}
}
[role="region"][aria-labelledby][tabindex] {
overflow: auto;
}
caption {
font-size: 90%;
}
.screenreader-only:not(:focus):not(:active) {
clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
clip-path: inset(50%);
height: 1px;
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
white-space: nowrap;
width: 1px;
}
:focus-visible {
outline-offset: 2px;
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) {
@view-transition {
navigation: auto;
}
html {
interpolate-size: allow-keywords;
&:focus-within {
scroll-behavior: smooth;
}
}
}
}
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index.html
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Chris Coyier's CSS Starter</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./cc-css-starter.css">
</head>
<body>
<main>
<h1>Chris Coyier's CSS Starter</h1>
<h2>I'm an h2 with a <a href="#">link</a></h2>
<hr />
<section>
<p>Lorem ipsum <a href="#">dolor sit amet</a>, consectetur adipisicing elit. Distinctio dolorem omnis, ducimus iusto necessitatibus quo quam consequatur voluptates sapiente quisquam! Corrupti cum nobis modi eius delectus qui praesentium quisquam deserunt.</p>
<header>
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">About</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header>
<article>
<p>
This paragraph is nested inside an article<sup>1</sup>. It contains many different, sometimes useful, <a href="https://www.w3schools.com/tags/">HTML5 tags</a>. Of course there are classics like <em>emphasis</em>, <strong>strong</strong>, and <small>small</small> but there are many others as well. Hover the following text for abbreviation tag: <abbr title="abbreviation">abbr</abbr>. Similarly, you can use acronym tag like this: <acronym title="For The Win">ftw</acronym>. You can define <del>deleted text</del> which often gets replaced with <ins>inserted</ins> text.
</p>
<pre>
var x = 2;
const y = addNumbers(x, 7);</pre>
<p>
You can also use <kbd>keyboard text</kbd>, which sometimes is styled similarly to the <code>&lt;code&gt;</code> or <samp>samp</samp> tags. Even more specifically, there is a tag just for <var>variables</var>. Not to be mistaken with blockquotes below, the quote tag lets you denote something as <q>quoted text</q>. Lastly don't forget the sub (H<sub>2</sub>O) and sup (E = MC<sup>2</sup>) tags.
</p>
</article>
<aside>This is an aside.</aside>
<footer>This is footer for this section</footer>
</section>
<hr />
<section>
<blockquote>
<p>
I'm the first paragraph of a blockquote. This is a mult-line blockquote with a cite reference.
</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’tdone as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
</p>
<cite>Steve Jobs – Apple Worldwide Developers’ Conference, 1997</cite>
</blockquote>
</section>
<h3>Hello, Table</h3>
<section>
<div role="region" aria-labelledby="caption" tabindex="0">
<table id="table">
<caption id="caption">This is a table caption</caption>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Person</th>
<th>Number</th>
<th>Third Column</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Someone Lastname</td>
<td>900</td>
<td>Nullam quis risus eget urna mollis ornare vel eu leo.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#">Person Name</a></td>
<td>1200</td>
<td>
Vestibulum id ligula porta felis euismod semper. Donec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Another Person</td>
<td>1500</td>
<td>
Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies vehicula ut id elit.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Last One</td>
<td>2800</td>
<td>
Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum.
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</section>
<hr />
<section>
<dl>
<dt>Definition List Title</dt>
<dd>Definition list division.</dd>
<dt>Kitchen Sink</dt>
<dd>
Used in expressions to describe work in which all conceivable (and some inconceivable) sources have been mined. In this case, a bunch of markup.
</dd>
<dt>aside</dt>
<dd>Defines content aside from the page content</dd>
<dt>blockquote</dt>
<dd>Defines a section that is quoted from another source</dd>
</dl>
</section>
<hr />
<section>
<ul>
<li>
Unordered List item one
<ul>
<li>
Nested list item
<ul>
<li>Level 3, item one</li>
<li>Level 3, item two</li>
<li>Level 3, item three</li>
<li>Level 3, item four</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>List item two</li>
<li>List item three</li>
<li>List item four</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>List item two</li>
<li>List item three</li>
<li>List item four</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<ol>
<li>
List item one
<ol>
<li>
List item one
<ol>
<li>List item one</li>
<li>List item two</li>
<li>List item three</li>
<li>List item four</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>List item two</li>
<li>List item three</li>
<li>List item four</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>List item two</li>
<li>List item three</li>
<li>List item four</li>
</ol>
</section>
<hr />
<section>
<address>
1 Infinite Loop
<br>
Cupertino, CA 95014
<br>
United States
</address>
</section>
<hr />
<section>
<pre>
pre {
display: block;
padding: 7px;
background-color: #F5F5F5;
border: 1px solid #E1E1E8;
border-radius: 3px;
white-space: pre-wrap;
word-break: break-all;
font-family: Menlo, Monaco;
line-height: 160%;
}</pre>
</section>
<hr />
<figure id="figure">
<img
src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1750375502807-2c73a829f182?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMjM4NDZ8MHwxfHJhbmRvbXx8fHx8fHx8fDE3NTU4OTUyNjJ8&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&q=80&w=300"
alt="starry night with a misty mountain in the background that looks impossibly steep. Below, a yellow-lit cityscape."
/>
<figcaption>
This is a beautiful city that may or may not exist but if it does exist, I would like to visit it some day.
</figcaption>
</figure>
<hr />
<section>
<form>
<p>
<label for="example-input-email">Email address</label>
<input
type="email"
id="example-input-email"
placeholder="Enter email"
>
</p>
<p>
<label for="example-input-password1">Number</label>
<input
type="number"
id="example-input-number"
placeholder="Number"
>
</p>
<p>
<label for="example-input-password">Password</label>
<input
type="password"
id="example-input-password"
placeholder="Password"
>
</p>
<p>
<label for="example-input-search">Search</label>
<input
type="search"
id="example-input-serach"
placeholder="Search .."
>
</p>
<p>
<label for="example-input-tel">Telephone number</label>
<input
type="tel"
id="example-input-tel"
placeholder="Telephone number"
>
</p>
<p>
<label for="example-input-text">Text</label>
<input
type="text"
id="example-input-text"
placeholder="Enter some text here"
>
</p>
<p>
<label for="example-input-url">Url</label>
<input
type="url"
id="example-input-url"
placeholder="Enter a url here"
>
</p>
<p>
<label for="example-input-color">Color</label>
<input type="color" id="example-inupt-color" placeholder="#fff" >
</p>
<fieldset>
<legend>Date & Time Related Inputs</legend>
<p>
<label for="example-input-date">Date</label>
<input type="date" id="example-input-date" placeholder="date">
</p>
<p>
<label for="example-input-date-time">Date / Time</label>
<input
type="datetime"
id="example-input-date-time"
placeholder="date / time"
>
</p>
<p>
<label for="example-input-date-time-local">
Date / Time local
</label>
<input
type="datetime-local"
id="example-input-date-time-local"
placeholder="date / time local"
>
</p>
<p>
<label for="example-input-month">Month</label>
<input
type="month"
id="example-input-month"
placeholder="Month"
>
</p>
<p>
<label for="example-input-week">Week</label>
<input type="week" id="example-input-week" placeholder="Week" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="example-input-time">Time</label>
<input type="time" id="example-input-time" placeholder="Time" />
</p>
</fieldset>
<p>
<label for="example-select1">Example select</label>
<select id="example-select1">
<option>1</option>
<option>2</option>
<option>3</option>
<option>4</option>
<option>5</option>
</select>
</p>
<p>
<label for="example-select2">Example multiple select</label>
<select multiple id="example-select2">
<option>1</option>
<option>2</option>
<option>3</option>
<option>4</option>
<option>5</option>
</select>
</p>
<p>
<label for="example-textarea">Example textarea</label>
<textarea id="example-textarea" rows="3"></textarea>
</p>
<p>
<label for="example-input-file">File input</label>
<input type="file" id="example-input-file" />
</p>
<fieldset>
<legend>I am legend</legend>
<div>
<label>
<input
type="radio"
name="options-radios"
id="options-radios1"
value="option1"
checked
>
Option one is this and that&mdash;be sure to include why it's
great
</label>
</div>
<div>
<label>
<input
type="radio"
name="options-radios"
id="options-radios2"
value="option2"
>
Option two can be something else and selecting it will deselect option one
</label>
</div>
<div>
<label>
<input
type="radio"
name="options-radios"
id="options-radios3"
value="option3"
disabled
>
Option three is disabled
</label>
</div>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend>I am also legend</legend>
<label>
<input type="checkbox">
Check me out
</label>
<label>
<input type="checkbox">
Or check me out
</label>
</fieldset>
<p>
<button type="button" name="button">Button</button>
<input type="button" name="input" value="Input Button">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit Button" />
<input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset Button">
</p>
</form>
</section>
</main>
</body>
</html>
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