Top 10 CSS One Liners That Will Blow Your Mind

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# title: "Top 10 CSS One-Liners: Learn to Create Stunning Visual Effects"

Key takeaways:

  1. CSS one-liners can be used to create stunning visual effects with minimal code.
  2. The property can be used to flip text vertically or horizontally.
  3. The property can be used to add spacing between flex items.
  4. The property can be used to flip images horizontally or vertically.
  5. The property can be used to add smooth scrolling to anchor tags.
  6. The property can be used to create snappy scrolling experiences.
  7. The property can be used to make elements resizable.
  8. The property can be used to cut off text and add an ellipsis.
  9. The property can be used to add gradients to text.
  10. The property can be used to prevent image distortion.
  11. The property can be used to prevent element selection.

# Top 10 CSS One-Liners

# 1. Writing Mode

"Writing mode allows you to physically flip a text over in a vertical position or horizontal which is default."

# 2. Gap

"Gap is a really simple one but really useful."

# 3. Flip Image

"Here's a cool little way that you can flip over an image either horizontally or vertically."

# 4. Smooth Scrolling

"This is a really really cool one... one line of CSS and you have a nice smooth animation going."

# 5. Snappy Scrolling

"This gives like a more natural scrolling experience to be honest."

# 6. Resizable Elements

"Do you know how when you have a text area you can just grab the point here and resize it to whatever size you want?"

# 7. Truncate Text

"This is a really simple but really effective way to cut off text."

# 8. Linear Gradient

"This is a really cool one... we can solve this issue by adding it to the background and then making the text transparent and will basically mask it to the text."

# 9. Object Fit

"This is a problem I see loads of people having and the solution is so so simple."

# 10. Pointer Events

"This is something very very useful... it basically stops us from selecting an item any item."

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