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Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 1: Lines and Arcs
23.5.2025
This is the first part of a series that dives deep into the shape function, starting with shapes that use lines and arcs.
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You can style alt text like any other text
22.5.2025
Clever, clever that Andy Bell. He shares a technique for displaying image alt text when the image fails to load. Well, more precisely, it's a technique to apply styles to the alt when the image doesn't load, offering a nice UI fallback for what would otherwise be a busted-looking error.
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SVG to CSS Shape Converter
21.5.2025
Shape master Temani Afif has what might be the largest collection of CSS shapes on the planet with all the tools to generate them on the fly. There’s a mix of clever techniques he’s typically used to make those shapes, …
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A Reader’s Question on Nested Lists
19.5.2025
Answering a reader's question about how to create a complex numbering system with CSS list counters.
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HTML Email Accessibility Report 2025
16.5.2025
Some weekend reading on the heels of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAADM), which took place yesterday. The Email Markup Consortium (EMC) released its 2025 study on the accessibility in HTML emails, and the TL;DR is …
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Scroll-Driven Animations Inside a CSS Carousel
15.5.2025
Hey, isn't there a fairly new CSS feature that works with scroll regions? Oh yes, that's Scroll-Driven Animations. Shouldn't that mean we can trigger an animation while scrolling through the items in a CSS carousel?
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This Isn’t Supposed to Happen: Troubleshooting the Impossible
14.5.2025
What it looks like to troubleshoot one of those impossible issues that turns out to be something totally else you never thought of.
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Using Pages CMS for Static Site Content Management
12.5.2025
I know, I know: there are a ton of content management system options available, and while I've tested several, none have really been the one, y'know? Weird pricing models, difficult customization, some even end up becoming a whole 'nother thing to manage.
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Orbital Mechanics (or How I Optimized a CSS Keyframes Animation)
8.5.2025
What does it look like to refactor your own code? John Rhea picks apart an old CSS animation he wrote and walks through the thought process of optimizing it.
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Why is Nobody Using the hwb() Color Function?
7.5.2025
Okay, nobody is an exaggeration, but have you seen the stats for hwb()? They show a steep decline, and after working a lot on color in the CSS-Tricks almanac, I’ve just been wondering why that is.
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GSAP is Now Completely Free, Even for Commercial Use!
6.5.2025
Along with the version 3.13 release, GSAP, and all its awesome plugins, are now freely available to everyone.
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Modern Scroll Shadows Using Scroll-Driven Animations
5.5.2025
Using scroll shadows, especially for mobile devices, is a subtle bit of UX that Chris has covered before. Geoff covered a newer approach that uses the animation-timeline property. Here’s yet another way.
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CSS shape() Commands
2.5.2025
The CSS shape() function recently gained support in both Chromium and WebKit browsers. It's a way of drawing complex shapes when clipping elements with the clip-path property.
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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.
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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.
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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...