April 17, 2019
Data attributes on HTML elements can be very handy for targeting certain elements with CSS and/or Javascript.
Let's say, for example, we have a site with a menu whose links have a different background colour depending on what category they belong to, cats or dogs. The HTML might look like this:
<ul class="menu"> <li class="menu-item"> <a…
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How to add title as data attribute to menu links in Drupal 8 and Twig
March 26, 2019
I've been working on a website with the requirement to truncate certain text fields—display the first several words of the text, with a "show more" link which on click, expands the rest of the text. I had to dig a bit into the Twig documentation to figure it out, but it's easily done with Twig filters and a bit of JavaScript.
(Note that this method will strip any HTML in the text fields. It…
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Truncated expanding text field with "show more" link in Drupal 8 & Twig
August 4, 2016
(Note that this technique is totally deprecated by Flexbox and CSS Grid, but it's interesting for historical purposes, I guess).
If you've ever tried to do it, you know that vertically centring elements in CSS is notoriously difficult. Horizontal centring is a relative breeze, but vertical is another story.
I often have a use-case where I want to vertically centre some text on top of an image,…
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How to vertically center text in an absolutely-positioned div over an image