Create direction-aware effects using modern CSS

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Modern CSS is opening up some really interesting CSS-only solutions, including directionally-aware effects! In this one, I look at how we can do a directionally-aware hover effect for a navigation similar to the YouTube tabs I looked at recently, including dealing with browsers that don’t support everything we’re doing in this one.

It’s not a perfect solution, but there’s still a lot to learn by building something like this 🙂.

🔗 Links
✅ CSS Weekly:    / @cssweekly  
✅ The CSS Weekly video that inspired this:    • CSS Navbar: Create a Beautiful Naviga...  
✅ My clone of YouTube’s tabs:    • How to create animated tabs with HTML...  

⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
0:50 - What we are starting with
01:37 - Using padding instead of gap
03:10 - Adding the underline with a pseudo-element
05:12 - Adding a basic animation on hover
06:50 - Making the line move to the right
09:35 - Making the line move to the left
11:28 - Cleaning things up with custom properties
12:50 - Improving the animation so that it slides
15:50 - Browser support for browsers that don’t support :has()
17:05 - This isn’t perfect!

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