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HTML Web Components Proposal From 1998
5.12.2025
It's easy to think of HTML Web Components as a recent feature, but it has roots that go all the way back to 1998.
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Getting Creative With “The Measure”
4.12.2025
A good measure makes reading text comfortable, while a bad one makes it more difficult. So, rather than allowing layout to dictate the measure, doesn’t it make more sense for the measure to inform layout decisions?
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Scrollytelling on Steroids With Scroll-State Queries
2.12.2025
Unconvinced of the value of scrollytelling? Alright, skeptic, let’s first warm up with some common use cases for scroll-based styling.
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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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Prevent a page from scrolling while a dialog...
On Inheriting and Sharing Property Values
24.11.2025
There are many ways to share properties, but what would it look like to inherit and use any parent property value on a child?
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Sketch: A guided tour of Copenhagen
21.11.2025
Sketch probably didn't "have" to redesign its UI to line up with macOS Tahoe, but a big part of its appeal is the fact that it feels like it totally belongs to the Mac.
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Should We Even Have :closed?
20.11.2025
Is there really a difference between using :not(:open) and :closed? As always, it depends. Sunkanmi Fafowora explains why :closed is currently not a thing.
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The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: asin(), acos(), atan() and atan2()
17.11.2025
If we have a ratio that represents the sine, cosine or tangent of an angle, how can we get the original angle? This is where inverse trigonometric functions come in!
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Quiet UI Came and Went, Quiet as a Mouse
14.11.2025
The extremely new framework that caught lots of attention will continue as a personal project.
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The Range Syntax Has Come to Container Style Queries and if()
13.11.2025
Being able to use the range syntax with container style queries — which we can do starting with Chrome 142 — means that we can compare literal numeric values as well as numeric values tokenized by custom properties or the attr() function.
The Range Syntax Has Come to Container Style Queries...
Headings: Semantics, Fluidity, and Styling — Oh My!
10.11.2025
A few links about headings that I've had stored under my top hat.
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Explaining the Accessible Benefits of Using Semantic HTML Elements
6.11.2025
Why should you use a semantic <button> instead of a generic <div>? Accessibility, right? By how exactly does it help accessibility?
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The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: tan()
3.11.2025
Last time, we discussed that, sadly, according to the State of CSS 2025 survey, trigonometric functions are deemed the “Most Hated” CSS feature.
That shocked me. I may have even been a little offended, being a math nerd and …
The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: tan()...
Getting Creative With Small Screens
29.10.2025
On mobile, people can lose their sense of context and can’t easily tell where a section begins or ends. Good small-screen design can help orient them using a variety of techniques.
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Pure CSS Tabs With Details, Grid, and Subgrid
27.10.2025
Can we use the <details> element as the foundation for a tabbed interface? Why yes, we can!
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CSS Animations That Leverage the Parent-Child Relationship
24.10.2025
When we change an element’s intrinsic sizing, its children are affected, too. This is something we can use to our advantage.
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An Introduction to JavaScript Expressions
22.10.2025
A thorough but approachable lesson on JavaScript expressions excerpted JavaScript For Everyone, a complete online course offered by our friends at Piccalilli.
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Building a Honeypot Field That Works
20.10.2025
Honeypots are fields that developers use to prevent spam submissions. They still work in 2025. But you got to set a couple of tricks in place so spambots can’t detect your honeypot field.
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Sequential linear() Animation With N Elements
15.10.2025
Let’s suppose you have N elements with the same animation that should animate sequentially. Modern CSS makes this easy and it works for any number of items!
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Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve
13.10.2025
What can CSS Masonry discussions teach us about the development of new CSS features? What is the CSSWG’s role? What influence do browsers have? What can learn from the way past features evolved?
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