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What Else Could Container Queries… Query?
12.12.2025
How far can we really go with container queries? There are dozens of media queries now, so what if there were dozens of container queries as well? What could we use them for?
What Else Could Container Queries… Query? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean...
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?
Getting Creative With “The Measure” originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
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...
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.
Container query units: cqi and cqb originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part...
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.
Chrome 133 Goodies originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
“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 …
“Smart” Layouts With Container Queries originally published...
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.
CSS Container Queries originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get...
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 …
A Few Times Container Size Queries Would Have Helped Me...
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 …
Digging Deeper Into...
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…
What CSS Do You Absolutely Have to Know in 2022?...
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20.10.2022
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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 …
Early Days of Container Style Queries...
State of CSS 2022 Survey Now Open
4.10.2022
The State of CSS survey recently opened up. Last year, the survey confirmed everyone’s assumptions that TailwindCSS is super popular and CSS variables are mainstream. It also codified what many of us want from CSS, from Container Queries to …
State of CSS 2022 Survey Now Open...
WebKit Features in Safari 16.0
13.9.2022
Whew boy, Safari 16 is officially out in the wild and it packs in a bunch of features, some new and exciting (Subgrid! Container Queries! Font Palettes!) and others we’ve been waiting on for better cross-browser support (Motion Path! Overscroll …
WebKit Features in Safari 16.0...
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 …
iShadeed’s Container Queries Lab originally...
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 …
Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers...
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.
A New Container Query Polyfill That Just Works originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter and become...
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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Meet `:has`, A Native CSS Parent Selector
12.7.2021
The reasons that are often cited that make container queries difficult or impossible is things like infinite loops—e.g. changing the width of an element, invalidating a container query, which changes the width again, which makes the container query take effect, …
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