This is a solution to the Easybank landing page challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.
Users should be able to:
- View the optimal layout for the site depending on their device's screen size.
- See hover states for all interactive elements on the page.
As a bonus I want to achieve the following extra challenges:
- The page must be accessible according to WCAG 2.1 standards, things like color contrast, skip links, clear element focus, keyboard navigation support and necessary aria attributes.
- I want to add minimal animations to the page, such as a toggle animation on the responsive menu and transforms on various content on the page using the IntersectionObserver.
- Semantic HTML5 markup
- CSS custom properties
- Flexbox
- CSS Grid
- Mobile-first workflow
- WCAG 2.1 best practices
- CSS Animations
- JavaScript IntersectionObserver API
- Astro - Astro Static Site Generator
- Accessible Astro Starter - My own starter template for Astro
- I learned how to add a transition to background gradients.The
backgroundCSS property can not be transitioned by default. A solution I found online is where you add the hover effect on the before pseudo element and use the transition on the opacity property:
.call-to-action {
background: linear-gradient(to right, var(--primary-clr-200), var(--primary-clr-300));
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
// other styles
}
.call-to-action::before {
position: absolute;
content: "";
top: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
border-radius: 2em;
background: var(--primary-clr-100);
z-index: -1;
transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in-out;
opacity: 0;
}
.call-to-action:hover::before,
.call-to-action:focus::before {
opacity: 1;
}- I (re)learned how to handle the layout shift that happens when you try to use
font-weight: boldas a hover effect on, in this case, the menu items. I solved it by settingmin-width: 6chon the wrappingli. This prevents the shift in layout because the added width of the bold font weight is now contained inside of that min-width of theli:
li {
min-width: 6ch;
}- What I found difficult was how to properly size the Hero background SVG and the mockup images for responsive sizes. I used a lot of breakpoints to resize them for a lot of different screen widths. I can't imagine this being the best solution, because it's a very tedious and error prone approach. I want to learn more on creating such sections in a more elegant way and I'm hoping to learn that by looking at the solutions of others.
- Background gradient transition - This is the example I used to create the transition on the button.
- Intersection Observer API - The MDN documentation on how to use the Intersection Observer API.
- Intersection Observer Example - An example I made in a CodePen of how to use the Intersection Observer.