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Creating a “Starred” Feed
21.1.2025
Chris wrote about “Likes” pages a long while back. The idea is rather simple: “Like” an item in your RSS reader and display it in a feed of other liked items. The little example Chris made is still really good.…
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Fancy Menu Navigation Using Anchor Positioning
17.1.2025
Anchor positioning can be great for little interactive effects — as Temani Afif shows off with this clever idea for a menu hover.
Fancy Menu Navigation Using Anchor Positioning originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
Web-Slinger.css: Across the Swiper-Verse
15.1.2025
Lee Meyer with a super clever idea using scroll-driven animations as an interaction to "like" or "dislike" something.
Web-Slinger.css: Across the Swiper-Verse originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
A Few Ways That Cloudways Makes Running This Site a Little Easier
14.1.2025
(This is a sponsored post.)
It’s probably no surprise to you that CSS-Tricks is (proudly) hosted on Cloudways, DigitalOcean’s managed hosting arm. Given both CSS-Tricks and Cloudways are part of DigitalOcean, it was just a matter of time …
A Few Ways That Cloudways Makes Running This Site...
How to Wait for the sibling-count() and sibling-index() Functions
13.1.2025
Today, I want to look into one of those cases of impatient and how the community has waited for that feature, to be specific, two upcoming functions: sibling-count() and sibling-index().
How to Wait for the sibling-count() and sibling-index() Functions originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
Is Your Frame Rate Lagging Behind In Marvel Rivals? Try These PC Graphics Settings
10.1.2025
Looking for the best settings to maximize performance and frame rate in Marvel Rivals? The new hero shooter makes crossplay refreshingly simple, but optimizing your settings is a bit more of a complex task. Getting the best performance that you can out of the game on PC will take a little more...
Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results
9.1.2025
I wrote a post for Smashing Magazine that was published today about this thing that Chrome and Safari have called “Tight Mode” and how it impacts page performance. I’d never heard the term until DebugBear’s Matt Zeunert mentioned it in …
Tight Mode: Why Browsers...
The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI
6.1.2025
I am still an AI skeptic. The biggest risk I foresee is that if your sole responsibility is to write code, your job is at risk. It’s not time to panic, but I do see a lot of value in evolving your soft skills.
The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI originally published...
Thank You (2024 Edition)
30.12.2024
I'm more thankful this time around because, last year, I didn't even get to write this post. But now that I'm back, writing this feels so, so, so good. There's a lot more gusto going into my writing when I say: thank you so very much! Let's tie a bow on this year and round up what happened around...
A CSS Wishlist for 2025
23.12.2024
2024 has been one of the greatest years for CSS: cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, anchor positioning, animate to height: auto, and many others. It seems out of touch to ask, but what else do we …
A CSS Wishlist for 2025 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
The Little Triangle in the Tooltip
20.12.2024
Today, I want to focus on what I'll call the little triangle in the tooltip. It receives minimal attention but it amazes you by how many ways there are to make them. Let's start with the simplest and make our way up to the not-so-simple.
The Little Triangle in the Tooltip originally published...
How to Create Multi-Step Forms With Vanilla JavaScript and CSS
18.12.2024
When was the last time you developed a multi-step form? There’s so much to think about and so many moving pieces that need to be managed. But doing it by hand can be a good exercise and a great way to polish the basics. Fatuma Abdullaho walks you through her first multi-step form using vanilla...
What ELSE is on your CSS wishlist?
17.12.2024
What else do we want or need CSS to do? Chris kept a CSS wishlist, going back as far as 2013 and following back up on it in 2019. We all have things we'd like to see CSS do and we always will no matter how many sparkly new features we get. We'll round things up and put a list together — so let...
Fluid Superscripts and Subscripts
11.12.2024
How much attention do you pay to the alignments of your subscripts and superscripts? Lorenz Wöehr has you covered with a recipe for fluid scaling.
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CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-12-04): Just Use Grid vs. Display: Masonry
10.12.2024
The CSSWG met to try and finally squash a debate that has been going on for five years: whether Masonry should be a part of Grid or a separate system. We've got coverage of both presentations for ya.
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Smashing Meets Product Design
10.12.2024
I had the pleasure of hosting a recent Smashing Magazine workshop on product design, subbing for Vitaly Friedman who usually runs these things.
What? A front-ender interviewing really smart people about their processes for user research, documenting requirements, and …
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Yet Another Anchor Positioning Quirk
9.12.2024
As awesome as I think it is, CSS Anchor Positioning has a lot of quirks, some of which are the product of its novelty and others due to its unique way of working. Today, I want to bring you yet another Anchor Positioning quirk that has bugged me since I first saw it.
Yet Another Anchor Positioning...
CSS Wrapped 2024
6.12.2024
Join the Chrome DevRel team and a skateboarding Chrome Dino on a journey through the latest CSS launched for Chrome and the web platform in 2024, highlighting 17 new features
That breaks down (approximately) as:
Five components
Interactions
Developer experience…
CSS Wrapped 2024...
Knowing CSS is Mastery to Frontend Development
6.12.2024
Anselm Hannemann on the intersection between frameworks and learning the basics:
Nowadays people can write great React and TypeScript code. Most of the time a component library like MUI, Tailwind and others are used for styling. However, nearly no
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Knowing CSS is Mastery to Frontend...
The Law of Diminishing Returns
4.12.2024
Striking the right balance can be tough. We don’t want cool mama bear's porridge or hot papa's bear porridge, but something right in the middle, like baby bear’s porridge.
The Law of Diminishing Returns originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should...