Traditional CSS properties often accept fixed values, so developers have to use a variety of alternatives when dynamic values need to be used. Also, there are cases where it is not possible to represent multiple values of a single CSS property with a single fixed value, such as defining a color with an RGB value. Today I'm going to share several CSS functions that you can use to design futuristic, high-quality, and eye-catching web pages. Makes you a CSS expert at writing the latest CSS stylesheets.
CSS property values usually accept fixed properties with or without units, so we can't use basic arithmetic operations there. The calc function allows you to perform arithmetic operations on CSS atomic data types. Here's an example of setting the dynamic font size based on the viewport size and calculating the color of the container font based on CSS variables at runtime.
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In general, we need to use various visual effects on DOM elements to improve the user's interactive experience with the web page. For example, when a user hovers over a clickable element, we usually change the text or background color. By using CSS filters, we can go beyond these traditional color-based DOM effects. CSS filters can be used with any DOM element, and we can apply CSS filters using various filter functions via the filter property. The use of CSS filters in combination with image elements is very popular among developers, and the following ** and the effect show, below is a simple example of the effect and**:
Each of the popular general-purpose programming languages provides mathematical functions through its built-in standard library. For example, the j**ascript interpreter exposes mathematical functions through a global math object. CSS, while not a programming language, does provide built-in math functions to be used in CSS definitions to eliminate J**Ascript's involvement in CSS-related development tasks. The calc function allows you to do basic math calculations, and we can use separate specialized math functions in CSS to meet different needs. We can use the min, max, and clamp functions in CSS for comparison. For example, the following snippet dynamically adjusts the width of an element using the max function:
The above fragment renders a container, and when its computed width is less than 200px, it gets 50% of the width of the parent container—otherwise, it uses a fixed 200px width. The effect is as follows:
We used Adobe Photoshop in the past to create web buttons with gradient backgrounds. Modern CSS implementations support the use of gradient functions as background-image CSS properties, enabling you to implement three main types of gradient images:
linear-gradient(to right, red, yellow).
radial-gradient(circle, red, yellow).
Conic gradient: conic-gradient(red, yellow, green).
Let's look at buttons for linear gradient backgrounds and buttons for radial gradient backgrounds
The CSS styling language was originally used to set the color of the semantic HTML structure, adjust the position, and style the text. Over time, CSS has evolved many user-oriented and developer-friendly features to efficiently design futuristic and eye-catching web pages. Today, the latest CSS standards offer built-in DOM animations without j**ascript, responsive design features, image effects, gradient effects, and many developer-facing features. Xi CSS functions makes web pages more gorgeous, and can solve the effects that traditional CSS can't do with only a few lines.