min(), max(), and clamp() are CSS magic!

[@MelTurner]

Maybe important to mention that SCSS can get confused if it encounters a CSS min or max function because SASS has conflicting functions. For example min(200px, 80%) will cause a SASS units error. The trick is to capitalize: Min and Max so they are ignored by SASS (CSS is case insensitive)

[@gemarefantero1723]

Wow! Thanks for the tips!. I've been found this problem for a long time ago, and I never get the answer of it until now!

[@cretik_shmurda]

I encourage this problem today, thank you for this comment

[@holypowerenjoyer6059]

dude's a lifesavior

[@kariakichernocherno2274]

very case insensitive

[@sivavijay1208]

tHaNkS dUdE

[@rc91249]

Whenever I have a issue with CSS or just want to learn a new property. I’m always so happy when I can find a video from Kevin explaining the subject! His a CSS magician ✨

[@shaikhabdulazim6908]

He is a legend 👌

[@astrodas1910]

So true! I was thinking, it'd be great to have a way to make font-size responsive with simple code. Next time I open youtube BOOM! This video appeared on my home page :)

[@mintran]

I thought I was pretty good at CSS until I discovered your channel.

[@coced]

Subscribe to Kevin for your regular dose of Dunning-Kruger effect

[@proudyy]

Actually same. My css is quite messy but still at a point sorta advanced. I just have huge problems with responsibility and the entire layout which is basic stuff. xD So to be honest, I am still quite a beginner. I got my way although already into custom box-shadows, linear and radial gradients as such, and different color units (rgb, hex, ...).

[@lewisone]

Right. I felt I was a rockstar until I found Kevin telling me that I barely know 20% of the things I need to know. Ego drop.

[@Bean-kw2xp]

same

[@crstfrdrnt]

I'm two weeks into seriously learning html and CSS and keep coming to your videos because they're awesome. You are one great teacher

[@loganligas8418]

How are you doing now? Hope all is well. :)

[@AllElectronicsGr]

Your channel is sooo nice !

[@GineetMehta]

I am absolutely baffled at the quality of content you put out, Kevin. Direct, crystal clear, practical videos of everything relevant. No BS. I have been working as a frontend developer for around 14 months now, and I stumbled on your channel while searching for Intersection Observers. Love the content! Subscribed to the channel and will sign up for the newsletter too. Thank you for your time and effort in giving back to the community. Much appreciated.

[@degagnemarc]

Just love it! Great for replacing some media query. .row { width: clamp( min( 95%, 414px ), 80%, 1200px ); } Thanks Kevin for making us better devs.

[@guillermodanielmazzarigiov1768]

Could you please explain what you did in that codeline 😂😂😂 I'm new to this

[@the_meaning_of_love]

@@guillermodanielmazzarigiov1768 width of: - It doesn’t matter how big the screen is, it will never grow over 1.200 px (max-width) - When the screen size is small enough that the 80% of the container is smaller than 1200px (for example a screen of 1240px), it will be 80% of the width of the container. - And when the screen size is really small (as in mobile devices), the minimum size the element is going to get is 414px or 95% of the container, whatever is smaller. Basically this line is defining what’s the minimum width of the element with a min value (95% or 414px, whatever is smaller), what’s the preferred size of the element with an 80% of the container width, and what’s the maximum size of the element with a fixed value in pixels (1200)

[@dexter3943]

what would be the media query values for this?

[@guillermodanielmazzarigiov1768]

@@the_meaning_of_love I hadn't seen your answer, thanks man! Btw, this is brilliant, and if I would have read your answer 2 weeks ago I wouldn't have understand it anyway lol, this made me very happy, to see how much I've learned in only 2 weeks 😀

[@irfansaeedkhan7242]

you are geniius, can i get your github repo or linkedin profile for more pro stuff, like a project that covers all these standards and we can copy from here when making new project, i already use mixins for media queries and fonts for reusability but you share some next level thing for me in a single line

[@gosnooky]

Really enjoy your videos. I spent most of my career from the 90's onward doing systems programming in C, C++ and Java, but now that the money is in front end, I'm digging all these modern toys and tooling.

[@nested9301]

toys lol

[@joeldcanfield_spinhead]

This, I've dreamt about for so so long. Not back in '94 when I started coding HTML3.2, but it's definitely been years.

[@Colstonewall]

WOW! I had no idea there was anything like HTML around that time ('94). I didn't even know the Internet existed until about 1997. You've been at it a while Joel!

[@joeldcanfield_spinhead]

@@Colstonewall Sheesh; I was LATE to the game. The first graphical browser, Mosaic, was released in '93 and other folks were already making stuff I envied. Now, imagine the years from 94 to 99, the long wait for HTML4. Oh, and the same wait for CSS to be widely supported by both browsers [yeah, 'both':Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer because, c'mon, there were like 3 people using Opera and 12 using Konqueror.] More old man rant: this was also all delivered over modems at speeds of 28.8kb. A 2:36-long mp3 would take 6+ minutes to download. A video would take about ten thousand years.

[@Colstonewall]

@@joeldcanfield_spinhead Amazing. How I wish I had gotten into the game at least in the late 90's or early 2000's much less when you did. You're a Legend, Joel!

[@KevinPowell]

Same. I did it on and off as a hobby since the late 90s. Sort of wish I got into it full-time earlier! Though I don't miss table based layouts 😂

[@joeldcanfield_spinhead]

@@KevinPowell No kidding. I stumbled across a horror yesterday: I'm redesigning my author website and went to take one last look at two of my favorite authors' sites. I keep forgetting that one of them, a famous mystery writer, has a website that was built with tables in 1998 (no exaggeration) and nothing but the content has been updated since.

Oh boy, I have an itch to go back to all my projects and use this! Thank you for such a clear explanation!

[@markrm2212]

Started coding websites professionally about two years back. Your videos really helped me out back then and still do today :)

[@shvideo1]

Loved the usage of clamp() function with the font-size property and also learning about "vw" units. This is very handy and useful for web design. Thank you Kevin for this great video!

[@richmuratori9249]

Thanks!

[@KevinPowell]

Thank you *sooo* much, that's so generous of you. YT doesn't do anything extra to notify us for super chats, so I'm so sorry for the late reply.

[@ukyo6195]

Works in all modern Browser: font-size: calc([minimum size] + ([maximum size] - [minimum size]) * ((100vw - [minimum viewport width]) / ([maximum viewport width] - [minimum viewport width]))); e. g. font-size: calc(2.25rem + (36 - 20) * ((100vw - 300px) / (1600 - 300)));

[@noinfo9941]

I use this one too after reading the article from css-tricks "The Math of CSS locks".

[@samuelgoncalves5616]

Your code is wrong, should be: font-size: calc(20 + (36 - 20) * ((100vw - 300px) / (1600 - 300px)))

[@samuelgoncalves5616]

But is a great tip, thanks

[@ukyo6195]

@@samuelgoncalves5616 does it not automatically use px if a unit is not set, I’m not sure. Otherwise thanks for the correction, I’ll test it. 👍

[@nikilragav]

Ya that's what I used to do :)

[@stefanielis7052]

OMG you SAVED ME. I'm just starting out but I wrote a webpage using TEN MEDIA QUERIES just to make the simple home page responsive and now with this I don't need a one. THANK YOU.

[@codellyson]

I guess you can never know it all when it comes to CSS, thanks Kevin, you are doing a great job.

[@codingtime3803]

I can't thank you enough kevin! I have learned so much about css and responsive design from your channel !! Your videos are gems!

[@sherwan-yt]

just before one hour, i wrote these line of code: width: max(min(10vw, 250px), 150px); because I had never heard from clamp() function! And after I watched your video, i realized that I can change this to clamp(). thanks 👍

[@quietScooter]

9:28 this is why I watch your content and nothing else, you don't fail to address the minor details!

[@janelleschuh8424]

Kevin, thanks so much for the great video!! I've recently started my web development journey and your channel has been a tremendous help. So much so that as I'm practicing my skills via KZbin video projects or Udemy course projects I'm not following along entirely and instead am inserting some of the new, cool CSS properties like clamp(). Thanks again!!!

[@rodrigonoales]

Amazing the amount of media queries you could potentially save to write ! Thanks for sharing

[@spyrosp]

Thank you Kevin! Always up-to-date 💪

[@klutch4198]

Absolute GOLD, font size responsiveness is just one of those things

[@manantank]

I used this a while ago and forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me. Also I didn't know you could give more than 2 values as arguments. That is pretty cool

[@alexisjones2045]

Clamp seriously saved me on this website I'm building right now! Thanks so much.

[@petarkolev6928]

Amazing video! Kevin, you just don't stop amazing me with each video, love your work!!!!

[@patrickc.6183]

Wow! This is literally something I could use ALL the time when writing CSS! Thanks 😁!

[@CB-fd4xu]

Finally! I've been enlightened. Thank you, Kevin.

[@ra9r]

I've only recently discovered your channel but DAMN, great content. Thank you and keep it coming!

[@cipherosx]

It's interesting... something that maybe wasn't clafiried it's about with the 'min' and 'max' functions as well as the clamp one. One of the both values must be a relative unit such as percentage or viewport. With the clamp function this concept is applied on the 'ideal' value. Thanks Kevin for all the information you share!

[@pulok9909]

KP you are really awesome.I am learning CSS from your channel.It helps me a lot .May you live long.Recently I have become your fan.pls keep this good work up.

[@KevinPowell]

Thanks and welcome :D

[@deankinyua2365]

your channel is incredibly enllightening Kevin🤩

[@mahdihashemi408]

Thank you for your valuable and amazing videos. Your videos helped me a lot since I have started programming.

[@jamjam3448]

You're the best!!! Thanks so much

[@danielChibuogwu]

Thanks for this video Kevin, it was really really helpful😊

[@jv18creator]

O my goddddd... Man great video... Helped me a lot

[@Olderaccount17]

Thank you from Argentina, sir!

[@nikhiltyagi1080]

One of the best and most useful videos you have ever made. Thanks a lot boss!!

[@pagalpantipupun]

You won't believe I was looking for the exact thing today. Superb job. I am a new member of the house but I know there is a lot to learn.

[@travezripley]

The production is getting better Kev!!!

[@KevinPowell]

Thanks

[@shhhpiderman8332]

I couldn't figure out why people were adding in 1em/rem/px for the middle value. Thank you so much!

[@TDavisOfficial]

Man, this just helped me out sooooooo much. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@hanziel]

Ok, I think I need to binge your videos! Great CSS I've never seen before.

[@KevinPowell]

Hope you enjoy my other videos :)

[@sleepless83]

You are awesome! I love your videos!

[@mariachaudhry4608]

Your cheering voice is infectious

[@singhravjot]

Awesome explanation!

[@somtovitus]

this is beautiful

[@JacksBracket]

This.is.INCREDIBLE

[@slipoch6635]

it's css vars, or wasm. Completely supported without any fanfare whatsoever. Although I never use a max body size for a website, because then on 2k/4k screens it can end up looking awful. You could use clamp for column size in css grids for auto column sizing. Great video man!

[@permanar_]

I used vw unit pretty much for scaling font-sizing especially on a bigger. And on 12:15, I think it just not a good example of showing the sizing changes (except you use the computed tab -> font-size on the developer tools to inspect it). Because I believe it's actually changing but just not as much as we could see. And usually, you need to do a proportional ratio before using the vw unit for font-size. So my approach: 100 * (value) / (viewport resolution) Let's say you have a Figma design with 1440px screen and there's a 18px value for a font-size on a subtitle. Then it just would like this: 100 * 18 / 1440 = 1.25. There you go with font-size: 1.25vw; and remember to use a @media query with min-width: 1440px. This will fixed this exact issue on 15:54. Just try to zoom out your browser or try resizing it on whatever resolution, it would stay THE SAME as 18px would work on 1440px screen, but it's actually on larger screen. I've rarely use vw on smaller screen or mobile devices. But this still could work whatever you want. Just remember changes your design "preferred" viewport value (maybe for 768px or something should work good). And just for a quick note: Sometimes this maybe not an always go-to solution because there's some monitor like ultra wide exist here. So yeah, you still need to double check everything.

[@permanar_]

Love to hear about others thought 💙 What do you think guys?

[@ritaravinsky8262]

So cool, thank you Kevin

[@iJimJones]

I think this will come in handy for a use-case I am planning. It is a cemetery layout with grid blocks for gravesites in which the text within each block as one zooms in or out stays readable and appropriately sized. I need to couple this idea with displaying alternative text and more/less text based on size too (last name of burial only to full name to name and dates, for example).

[@taylorhorne1046]

you singlehandedly saved me from losing many hours of sleep last night. thank you king

[@gabrielpena5829]

This video is amazing, I understood everything, THANK YOU

[@nomadaxable]

Loved this video. Thanks for the good content.

[@nevrgonnadnce]

thank you for the video :) helped me with clamp alot.

[@mtolin82]

Wow. Thank you so much, you explain very well, so I have just subscribed!

[@kokazo2009]

Thank you Kevin, I should definitely give it a try. Maybe you could show the computed section from the dev tools to see how font-size is changing on real time

[@KeksBln]

Good idea!

[@obscurecult]

This is awesome, I'm gonna start using right now

[@aaron_phillips]

Great video! This solved an issue I was having with a project I was working. :P

[@j.almadhaji]

Thank you Awesome content as always

[@JohnChristosMolura]

Css is getting more exciting recently. I have not done much css work for a few years. On and off ... and each time i come here first to brush up on it. Thanks Kevin. Appreciate the videos. I have a request though. Could you make a video on using variable fonts reliably with fallbacks that make sense.

[@shayanfaghihi]

You are awesome! Thanks and big love from Iran :)

[@burmesepotato447]

Hi Kevin. I always learn something new from your vids and loved 'em! Can't wait to try clamp() on fonts. It'd be nice to see how to add proper fallbacks for them in next video :)

[@BogdanAnghelina]

Great job, man! It's a great content and your work is very helpful. I just start do write my new Wordpress theme and I use some of your videos for my CSS optimizations, tips and tricks.

[@bazzle_brush]

I've been waiting for this for years

[@norbertperka9231]

hi Kevin I recently found your channel and as I'm rookie to coding and building my own project I gave it a go to clamp() not only for font-size but also for margin and padding and I can say it works pretty good but I guess you already know about it :)

[@teal4069]

You taught me about clamp. Now I am a happy as a clam

[@_neuromanser_]

This is excellent, thanks! :D

[@david-tracy]

thank u man. I appreciate u

[@csupra7]

Finally something that I've been searching since long time...

[@mohamed__gp5xz]

Thanks Kevin!

[@JS-zm5se]

Grateful I found this one.

[@cedricluck]

One way to deal about the calc() solution is to put more weight in the static part of the calculation: instead of doing (1wv + 0.25rem) you should try (0.25vw + 1rem). Try to find a good balance and you will find the solution for your element to fit every screen width. Of course using clamp() is the best solution. I'm only using it on the WordPress DIVI theme builder because it doesn't allow the min() max() clamp() to be use on inline CSS snippets (which sucks btw!!)

[@DerSolinski]

Oh... it wasn't fully supported until recently that explained a lot 🤣 I'm so used to those functions and never really checked since they are fairly common in many programming languages...

[@vahidjamshidnejad9525]

great,thank you

[@mohamaddadh3493]

thank you so much teacher you are awesome man

[@noco2605]

Thank you very much, very useful to know

[@crooker2]

This is great. I was using your calc() dynamic font-size trick, but I think I will default to this and have the calc as the fallback until mass support.

[@mfranchi82]

What a Awesome videos, Kevin. Thanks for your explain

[@sivavijay1208]

Yea, you hoped I learnt something. I learnt that I'm still a newbie in css whenever I see your channel

[@mariprugovechi]

thanks for that! u r awesome! :)

[@VasilyPavlik]

That is absolutely incredible cool!!! This is exactly what I need right now. Last and this week. Thank you so much. (Went to change 25% of my code).

[@-ct-celcomtechniques2566]

Best html/css teacher !

[@bernattousfiga]

Hi Kevin, Have you tried to set the html font size with clamp() and define all your site sizes (margins, font sizes, paddings...) with rem units? It makes all your web 100% responsive without using any media query! I used to redefine de html font size inside the media queries to scale the content according to the page width, but with clamp() I just don't need to do that anymore! Combined with the proper grid and flex properties, I'm able to have a nice responsive layout and get rid of media queries. Awesome! PS. Thanks a lot for all your content! I really appreciate your work. It's just brilliant and it helps a lot of people like me to become better frontend developers.

[@ushanmithma9716]

Wow this is very useful sir, thank you very much 👌

[@vivianmingaud7942]

Très grand merci à toi Kévin pour ton altruisme et ce partage 🙂

[@KlaudiusL]

This video is a "Must Watch" before learn CSS

[@MelTurner]

The only time more than 2 values is useful is when the values are custom properties being set somewhere else such as in a separate class. e.g. min(var(--prop1, 999), var(--prop2, 999), var(--prop3, 999)) where prop1/2/3 are only set by a specific class

[@andreiode8712]

Thank you sir....good explanation 🙏

[@NicoMGrad]

I think I've grown as designer since I met your channel. Thank you!?

[@kaveengoonawardane9651]

Thanks mate!!

[@gracelamami]

less than 5 min of the video I learn something nice

[@mikegogl]

Thanks Kevin, I can always count on you.

[@suav1148]

Great to know! I've always wished I could use min- and max- for font-sizes. Now I can use this! Thank you, Kevin!

[@nikilragav]

I used to do this with calc with a linear equation although I don't remember exactly what it was something like calc(vw*some small number + 16px) so 16 is the min and it can get bigger from there

[@RanjitSachin]

Well explained.. Thank you.

[@CreativeJE]

Awesome keep the great content coming

[@justingiovanetti]

Great video, cool stuff. Definitely a step in the right direction. Better than just relying on media queries. Regarding its application for font size, I’d argue though that a person’s field of view doesn’t change according to a view port or container size. That said, there are still specific use cases for being able to dial the font size on a granular level, but I believe it’s not nearly as many as people think, or nearly as significant as people perceive it to be.

[@en_kratia]

Thank you