Are you using CSS for a long time in Web Development? You may not have heard about these CSS properties before. In this article, you will learn about 5 CSS properties that are least used and lesser known. After reading this you will be able to use these CSS properties to boost your work.
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Word-break
The ‘word-break’ property in CSS breaks or wraps the word, when it reaches the end of the line. It controls the line-breaking behavior of the content inside the element that it is applied to. This property has the following values:
1. ‘Normal’: This is the default value. It specifies that the text should break at allowable breakpoints, which include spaces, hyphens, and other punctuation.
2. ‘break-all’: This breaks the word at any point, even in the middle of a character. Useful for languages such as Chinese and Japanese, which don’t use spaces between words.
3. ‘keep-all’: This value prevents breaks within words that contain spaces, which is useful for languages such as French, where there are often spaces before punctuation marks.
4. ‘break-word’: This value allows words to split only if they are too long to fit within the available space. It’s similar to ‘normal’, but useful for displaying long URLs and email addresses.
The ‘word-break’ property can be applied to
any block-level element, including headings, paragraphs, and divs.
Additionally, it can also be used with the ‘overflow-wrap’ property to control
how text wraps within an element.
Object-fit
The object-fit property in CSS, displays an image or video by resizing to its container element. It focuses on how the content should be fitted to the available space in the container element. The object-fit property is similar to the background-size property and is often used in conjunction with it.
The object-fit property can take various
values, including:
“fill”: This is the default value that stretches or
squeezes the content to fill the available space without retaining its aspect
ratio. This often results in the content being distorted.
"contain:" This value scales the content
to fit within the container, preserving its aspect ratio, such that the entire
content is visible in the available space.
"cover": This value scales the content to
cover the entire width or height of the container element while preserving its
aspect ratio. However, this may result in parts of the content being cropped.
"none": This value displays the content at
its original size without any scaling or resizing.
" scale-down"; This value scales the content down to the maximum size such that it fits within the available space, whichever is smaller – the content’s original size or the size of its container element.
The object-fit property is often used in
conjunction with the object-position property to control the position of the
content within the container element.
Text-overflow
The text-overflow property in CSS is used to specify how hidden or overflow text content is displayed when it exceeds the content area of the element. It allows you to control the display of text that is too long to fit within its container element. The text-overflow property only has an effect when the container element has a fixed width and height and its overflow property is set to hide.
The text-overflow property can take several values, including:
- clip: his value simply clips the text at the edge of the container element, so that any overflow text is hidden.
- ellipsis: This value displays an ellipsis “...” at the end of the last visible line of text that overflows outside the container element. This replaces the hidden overflow text and provides a visual indication that there is more text available. This is often used in headlines and titles.
- string: This value replaces the overflow text with a given string or character(s).
The text-overflow property works in combination with the white-space and overflow properties to control the behavior of text content. By setting it to “ellipsis”, you can easily indicate to users that there is more content available while allowing them to view just the parts of the content that are necessary.
Object-position
The object-position property in CSS is used to specify the position of an image or video content inside its container element. It controls the positioning of the content within the container element when it is resized or scaled down. The object-position property is often used in conjunction with the object-fit property to control the behavior of images, videos, or other media content inside their container elements.
The object-position property can take
several possible values, including both length and keyword values. The keyword
values include “top”, “bottom”, “left”, “right”, “center” and “center” which is
the default value. The top, bottom, left, and right values position the content
relative to the edges of its container element, while the center and center
values position the content in the center of its container element.
The length values of the object-position property are specified in either pixels or percentages, and they set the position of the image or video content horizontally and vertically relative to its container element. The first value sets the horizontal position while the second value controls the vertical position. A positive value moves the content toward the right and down while negative values move the content toward the left and up.
By using the object-position property, you can control the position of media content within its container element, allowing you to achieve the desired layout and design for your web page
Backdrop-filter
The backdrop-filter property in CSS is used to apply visual effects, such as blurring or color shifting, to the area behind an element. The backdrop-filter property works by creating a visual layer and then applying filter effects to it, rather than directly to the element itself. This allows you to create a “frosted glass” effect or selectively blur or desaturate the content behind an element.
The backdrop-filter property can take
several possible filter values, including blur(), brightness(), contrast(),
drop-shadow(), grayscale(), hue-rotate(), invert(), opacity(), saturate() and
sepia(). These filter values can be combined, allowing for a combination of
various filter effects to be applied to the content behind an element.
The backdrop-filter property can also take the values of none, initial, and inherit. The none value removes any filter that is applied to the content behind the element, where initial and inherit values set the default or inherit the backdrop-filter property from its parent element.
Note that the backdrop-filter property is
not widely supported by all browsers, and its performance may be impacted on
some devices. However, it can provide a creative and visually appealing way to
enhance the design of your web pages, particularly for elements like modal
dialogs or pop-ups.
Conclusion:
These 5 CSS properties are not commonly used but you can use, them to save your time. I tried my best to explain about these properties, if you like this article share it with others so that they can easily enjoy it. Thanks for reading.