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Container query units: cqi and cqb
6.2.2025
A little gem from Kevin Powell's "HTML & CSS Tip of the Week" website, reminding us that using container queries opens up container query units for sizing things based on the size of the queried container.
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Chrome 133 Goodies
31.1.2025
Did you see the release notes for Chrome 133? It's currently in beta, but the Chrome team has been publishing a slew of new articles with pretty incredible demos that are tough to ignore. I figured I'd round those up in one place.
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“Smart” Layouts With Container Queries
14.8.2024
Modern CSS keeps giving us a lot of new, easier ways to solve old problems, but often the new features we’re getting don’t only solve old problems, they open up new possibilities as well.
Container queries are one of those …
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CSS Container Queries
10.6.2024
The main idea of CSS Container Queries is to register an element as a “container” and apply styles to other elements when the container element meets certain conditions.
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A Few Times Container Size Queries Would Have Helped Me Out
13.12.2022
CSS Container Queries are still gaining traction and many of us are getting our hands wet with them, even if it’s for little experiments or whatnot. They’ve got great, but not quite full, browser support — enough to justify using …
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Digging Deeper Into Container Style Queries
1.12.2022
I wrote up some early thoughts on container style queries a little while back. It’s still early days. They’re already defined in the CSS Containment Module Level 1 specification (currently in Editor’s Draft status) but there’s still a couple of …
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What CSS Do You Absolutely Have to Know in 2022?
8.11.2022
Sacha Greif openly wondered whether CSS has gotten to be, you know, too big. With all the goodies that’ve shipped in browsers the past couple of years — container queries! relative color syntax! cascade layers! logical properties…
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Early Days of Container Style Queries
12.10.2022
We’re still in suuuuuper early days with container queries. Too early for broad browser support, but Chromium already supports it, Safari started supporting it in version 16, and Firefox is presumably not far behind.
Most early days conversations …
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iShadeed’s Container Queries Lab
1.9.2022
Ahmad Shadeed got an early jump on container queries and has a growing collection of examples based on everyday patterns.
And, if you missed it, his latest post on container queries does a wonderful job covering how they work since …
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Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers
2.8.2022
Dave Rupert with some modern CSS magic that tackles one of those classic conundrums: what happens when the CSS for component is unable to handle the content we throw at it?
The specific situation is when a layout grid expects …
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A New Container Query Polyfill That Just Works
6.1.2022
There is an easy-to-use CSS container query polyfill now. You essentially conditionally load it and forget about it. Then write spec-compliant container queries code.
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Conditional Border Radius In CSS
5.10.2021
Ahmad Shadeed documents a bonafide CSS trick from the Facebook CSS codebase. The idea is that when an element is the full width of the viewport, it doesn’t have any border-radius. But otherwise, it has 8px of border-radius. …
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Container Units Should Be Pretty Handy
23.9.2021
Container queries are going to solve this long-standing issue in web design where we want to make design choices based on the size of an element (the container) rather than the size of the entire page. So, if a container …
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Are we in a new era of web design? What do we call it?
21.6.2021
Una is calling it the new responsive. A nod to the era we were most certainly in, the era of responsive design. Where responsive design was fluid grids, flexible media, and media queries, the new responsive is those things …
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Media Queries in Times of @container
15.6.2021
Max Böck took me up on my challenge to look through a codebase and see how many of the @media queries could ultimately become @container queries.
I took the bait and had a look at some of my projects –
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A Cornucopia of Container Queries
9.6.2021
I don’t know about y’all, but my feeds have been flooded with articles about CSS Container Queries these past few weeks. The buzz about container queries actually started back in December after Miriam Suzanne posted a proposal (picking up on …
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Can We Create a “Resize Hack” With Container Queries?
20.5.2021
If you follow new developments in CSS, you’ve likely heard of the impending arrival of container queries. We’re going to look at the basics here, but if you’d like another look, check out Una’s “Next Gen CSS: @container” article. …
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Next Gen CSS: @container
11.5.2021
Chrome is experimenting with @container, a property within the CSS Working Group Containment Level 3 spec being championed by Miriam Suzanne of Oddbird, and a group of engineers across the web platform. @container brings us the ability to …
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Say Hello to CSS Container Queries
20.4.2021
Container queries are finally here! Now available behind a flag in the latest version of Chrome Canary, you can go ahead and experiment to your heart’s content. Oh, and if you’re not familiar with container queries then check out …
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CSS Switch-Case Conditions
17.2.2021
CSS is yet to have a switch rule or conditional if, aside from the specific nature of @media queries and some deep trickery with CSS custom properties. Let’s have a look at why it would be useful if we …
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