Aaron Crowder

Hi, I'm Aaron Crowder. Or—if you know me online—CrowderSoup.

Father of two, Software developer, and lover of the open web. I like to take things apart (and sometimes even put them back together). I can frequently be found tinkering with some bit of code in my spare time.

Pronouns: He/Him, They/Them

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Could not agree more with the sentiment here! Whatever happened to semantic markup?

Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple dependencies and several kilobytes of Jav...

2026-01-20 Aaron Crowder

Using vh with calc In CSS

Aaron Crowder 2015-11-17

I often have need to build layout's that vary depending on the content put in them. I can't always count on that content being the same (cough CMSs cough). It's just one of those things you have to do. One thing I'm having to do a lot though, is making the body of a page take up a certain amount of space so that the footer doesn't look weird. In the past I've used JavaScript to make the footer take up the remaining space on the page if the content didn't take up enough. I never really liked t...