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Fit width text in 1 line of CSS
9.12.2025
The Chrome team recently prototyped a working solution for fitting text to the width of a container in CSS using a text-grow property.
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Prevent a page from scrolling while a dialog is open
1.12.2025
Bramus:
Chrome 144 features a small change to overscroll-behavior: it now also works on non-scrollable scroll containers. While this change might seem trivial, it fixes an issue developers have been dealing with for ages: prevent a page from
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We Completely Missed width/height: stretch
10.10.2025
The TL;DR is that stretch does the same thing as declaring 100%, but ignores padding when looking at the available space.
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What Can We Actually Do With corner-shape?
12.9.2025
When I first started messing around with code, rounded corners required five background images or an image sprite likely created in Photoshop, so when border-radius came onto the scene, I remember everybody thinking that it was the best thing ever. …
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What’re Your Top 4 CSS Properties?
10.9.2025
Everyone has a different opinion which is great because it demonstrates the messy, non-linear craft that is thinking like a front-end developer.
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What We Know (So Far) About CSS Reading Order
27.5.2025
The reading-flow and reading-order proposed CSS properties are designed to specify the source order of HTML elements in the DOM tree, or in simpler terms, how accessibility tools deduce the order of elements. You’d use them to make the focus order of focusable elements match the visual order,...
Can you get valid CSS property values from the browser?
19.8.2020
I had someone write in with this very legit question. Lea just blogged about how you can get valid CSS properties themselves from the browser. That’s like this.
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That gives you, for example, the fact that cursor is a thing. But then how do you know what valid values...