Sara Soueidan

Sara Soueidan is a Lebanese freelance front-end web developer-focusing on HTML5, SVG, CSS and JavaScript. She writes articles & tutorials on front-end development-including the latest cutting edge technologies-for various high-profile magazines and on her blog. You can follow her on Twitter

CSS vs SVG: The Final Round(up)

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CSS vs SVG: The Final Round(up)

This is the last article in the series of article comparing common CSS techniques to their SVG counterparts. This article is a roundup of several ...

09-16-2015

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CSS vs. SVG: Shapes and Arbitrarily-Shaped UI Components

In the first two articles of this series, we compared CSS and SVG techniques for creating graphical text effects and ways to style (and animate) ...

09-01-2015

How to change checkbox color in CSS and SVG

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How to change checkbox color in CSS and SVG

The most flexible way to style a checkbox (or radio button) in CSS is by using an image sprite that contains the images representing the styled checkbox in its two states: checked and unchecked.

08-26-2015

CSS vs. SVG: Graphical Text Effects

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CSS vs. SVG: Graphical Text Effects

This post is the first in a series of posts exploring techniques and examples that can be achieved using both CSS and SVG, and compares ...

07-31-2015

The State of SVG Animation

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The State of SVG Animation

The world of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is fascinating, and with everything you can do with it and all the options you have it is ...

06-05-2015

An Introduction To Graphical Effects in CSS

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An Introduction To Graphical Effects in CSS

Over the past couple of years, CSS has gotten a set of new properties that allow us to create quite advanced graphical effects right in ...

04-29-2015

Extending the Color Cascade with the CSS currentColor Variable

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Extending the Color Cascade with the CSS currentColor Variable

If you use Sass or LESS, then you probably already use variables in your style sheets and know how useful they are. If you don’t ...

02-24-2015