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State of Devs: A Survey for Every Developer
1.5.2025
The State of Devs survey is now open to participation, and unlike previous surveys it covers everything except code: career, workplace, but also health, hobbies, and more.
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Revisiting Image Maps
30.4.2025
Let’s run through a quick refresher. Image maps date all the way back to HTML 3.2, where, first, server-side maps and then client-side maps defined clickable regions over an image using map and area elements.
Revisiting Image Maps originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
Open Up With Brad Frost, Episode 2
29.4.2025
Brad Frost is running this new little podcast called Open Up. Folks write in with questions about the “other” side of web design and front-end development — not so much about tools and best practices as it is about …
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Anchor Positioning Just Don’t Care About Source Order
28.4.2025
The fact that anchor positioning eschews HTML source order is so CSS-y because it's another separation of concerns between content and presentation.
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The Lost CSS Tricks of Cohost.org
24.4.2025
In this post, Blackle Mori shows you a few of the hacks found while trying to push the limits of Cohost’s HTML support. Use these if you dare, lest you too get labelled a CSS criminal.
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“Pretty” is in the eye of the beholder
18.4.2025
Yay, let's jump for text-wrap: pretty landing in Safari Technology Preview! But beware that it's different from how it works in Chromium browsers.
“Pretty” is in the eye of the beholder originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get...
So, You Want to Give Up CSS Pre- and Post-Processors…
17.4.2025
There was once upon a time when native CSS lacked many essential features, leaving developers to come up with all sorts of ways to make CSS easier to write over the years.
So, You Want to Give Up CSS Pre- and Post-Processors… originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
Using CSS backdrop-filter for UI Effects
16.4.2025
Tips and tricks on utilizing the CSS backdrop-filter property to style user interfaces. You’ll learn how to layer backdrop filters among multiple elements, and integrate them with other CSS graphical effects to create elaborate designs.
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Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors
14.4.2025
Custom cursors with CSS are great, but we can take things to the next level with JavaScript. Using JavaScript, we can transition between cursor states, place dynamic text within the cursor, apply complex animations, and apply filters.
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CSS-Tricks Chronicles XLIII
11.4.2025
This CSS-Tricks update highlights significant progress in the Almanac, recent podcast appearances, a new CSS counters guide, and the addition of several new authors contributing valuable content.
CSS-Tricks Chronicles XLIII originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean...
Tailwind’s @apply Feature is Better Than it Sounds
10.4.2025
Most of the time, people showcase Tailwind's @apply feature with one of Tailwind's single-property utilities (which changes a single CSS declaration). When showcased this way, @apply doesn't sound promising at all. So obviously, nobody wants to use it. Personally, I think Tailwind's @apply feature...
Cascading Layouts: A Workshop on Resilient CSS Layouts
10.4.2025
If I were starting with CSS today for the very first time, I would first want to spend time understanding writing modes because that’s a great place to wrap your head around direction and document flow. But right after that, …
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CSS Carousels
9.4.2025
Chrome has prototyped these features and released them in Chrome 135. Adam Argyle has a wonderful explainer over at the Chrome Developer blog. Kevin Powell has an equally wonderful video where he follows the explainer. This post is me taking notes from them.
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Feeling Like I Have No Release: A Journey Towards Sane Deployments
7.4.2025
Deploying like an idiot comes down to a mismatch between the tools you use to deploy and the reward in complexity reduced versus complexity added.
Feeling Like I Have No Release: A Journey Towards Sane Deployments originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family....
A New “Web” Readiness Report
4.4.2025
HTML 5 Readiness was a site that showed through a rainbow of colors the browser support for several web features. What about a new version?
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SMIL on?
2.4.2025
Well, it turns out that SVG's built-in animation features were never deprecated as planned. Sure, CSS and JavaScript are more than capable of carrying the load, but it's good to know that SMIL is not dead in the water as previously thought, and is actually well-supported.
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Crafting Strong DX With Astro Components and TypeScript
1.4.2025
One thing we can do to help teams code consistently is provide type-checking so that all of the configurable options for a specific component are available while coding. Bryan demonstrates how he does this with TypeScript when working with Astro components.
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Worlds Collide: Keyframe Collision Detection Using Style Queries
31.3.2025
Interactive CSS animations with elements ricocheting off each other seem more plausible in 2025. While it’s unnecessary to implement Pong in CSS, the increasing flexibility and power of CSS reinforce Lee's suspicion that one day it will be a lifestyle choice whether to achieve any given effect with...
Automated Visual Regression Testing With Playwright
28.3.2025
With visual regression testing, we can update a page, take screenshots before and after the fact, and compare the results for unintended changes. In this article, learn how to set up visual regression testing using Playwright.
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Case Study: Combining Cutting-Edge CSS Features Into a “Course Navigation” Component
25.3.2025
Having been tasked with creating a UI component for navigating the content of an online course, Daniel found himself neck-deep in a pool of new CSS features that he wound up using on the project.
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