Submitted 4 months ago

QR code component using HTML & CSS

Donny• 120

@Donitron

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QR code component

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What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

Simply just proud that I went ahead and started this journey. Will be looking into doing more programming instead of watching tutorials all the time.

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

A few challenges I came across:

Centering an element in the middle of the screen. Overcame this by searching for flexbox tricks.
Using a custom font. Never actually looked into this surprisingly and there seem to be several ways of doing this. Read somewhere online that @font-face is the way to go.

What specific areas of your project would you like help with?

All css values have been used with pixels. Would it be possible to use rem instead? From what I learned you preferably want to use em or rem. Using pixel values would only be useful for border width and other small elements.

Why is @font-face the way to go opposed to for example embedding it as a link in the html?

Curious about other possibilities of centering an element in the middle of the page.

Community feedback

Koda👹• 3,810

@kodan96

Posted 4 months ago

hi there 👋

You should avoid hard-coded values (pixels) most of the time. When you use these values you give up responsiveness(or you make it harder for yourself at least)..

Typically you will increase the font-size property with @media queries. If you have hard-coded values all over your CSS, you need to modify every element's font-size. On the other hand, if you use rem-s all you need to do is changing the font-size in your CSS :root selector and all your elements will have a new size based on that value.

I usually use em for padding and margin for text-based elements, since their margin usually based on their font-size, and again, when you change the font-size in :root these values will scale up as well without you touching them, making your job easier and your page maintainable.

Hope this helps! 🙏

Good luck and happy coding!

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Donny• 120

@Donitron

Posted 4 months ago

Hey @kodan96 !

Thank you so much for your feedback! I made some changes like you suggested. Great learning points :D

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