5 webdev tips you may want to know 🔥 #2

1. Web workers cheatsheet

A worker thread can perform tasks without interfering with the user interface. This can be handy if you want to perform a CPU heavy operation for example:

2. Manipulating placeholders with CSS

📍How to style a placeholder? Use the ::placeholder pseudo element

📍How to target an input with a visible placeholder? Use the :placeholder pseudo class

3. Make your headers look better

You can use the text-rendering CSS property to provides information to the rendering engine about what to optimize for when rendering text:

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4. Sass mixins cheatsheet

You can use Mixins to define styles that can be re-used throughout your stylesheets:

5. Text alignement with HTML

You can use <sup> HTML element to display a superscripts: a raised baseline using smaller text, and <sub> to render a subscripts: a lowered baseline and smaller text:

You can achieve the same behaviour with the vertical-align CSS property. More on this below:

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