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Moving elements with JavaScript

Mar 2 · 2 min read · Recently I had a situation where there were two elements, A and B, each of which contained a whole load of things. On mobile A was at the top and B was below it. But on desktop B was on the left and A

Transitioning display: none

Nov 22, 2025 · 2 min read · I recently had cause to transition display: none. It’s not yet working in all browsers, but when I tried it I found the effect was so subtle that no one would notice the difference. In this example I had to change the transition time to 1 second in o...

Styling sibling hover and none hover

Sep 14, 2025 · 2 min read · I recently had some complicated CSS to get my head around. I have a list of links which I want to style when they’re being hovered/focus on. But, if none of them are being hovered or focused, then I want to style the first one in the list. The HTML <...

The scripting media query

Aug 31, 2025 · 1 min read · I know there are a lot more media queries out there than the ones I usually use, but this week I used one I’d never come across before. The scripting media query checks whether JavaScript is enabled. It has three keywords, although only two of them a...

Using ChatGPT

May 23, 2025 · 2 min read · This week I had a couple of things I got stuck on and googling/Stack Overflow weren’t helping me much. I know that people have said that AI can help you with programming and I thought I’d see how much help it was getting me unstuck. Problem 1 I went ...