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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.
Automated Visual Regression Testing With Playwright originally...
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.
Case Study: Combining Cutting-Edge CSS Features Into a “Course Navigation” Component originally...
Support Logical Shorthands in CSS
24.3.2025
There’s a bit of a blind spot when working with CSS logical properties concerning shorthands.
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Revisiting CSS border-image
21.3.2025
I’ve used border-image regularly. Yet, it remains one of the most underused CSS tools, and I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why. Is it possible that people steer clear of border-image because its syntax is awkward and unintuitive? Perhaps it’s because most explanations don’t solve the type...
Quick Reminder That :is() and :where() Are Basically the Same With One Key Difference
20.3.2025
I’ve seen a handful of recent posts talking about the utility of the :is() relational pseudo-selector. No need to delve into the details other than to say it can help make compound selectors a lot more readable.
:is(section, article, aside,
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Quick Reminder That :is() and :where()...
Styling Counters in CSS
17.3.2025
Going from the most basic ways to style lists directly in HTML to advanced customization techniques that are even capable of making things that aren't lists look like lists.
Styling Counters in CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get...
Web Components Demystified
14.3.2025
Scott Jehl released a course called Web Components Demystified. This is my full set of notes from Scott's course. You'll still want to take the course on your own, and I encourage you to because Scott is an excellent teacher who makes all of this stuff extremely accessible, even to noobs like...
Powering Search With Astro Actions and Fuse.js
11.3.2025
With Astro, we can generate most of our site during our build, but have a small bit of server-side code that can handle search functionality using something like Fuse.js. In this demo, we’ll use Fuse to search through a set of personal “bookmarks” that are generated at build time, but return back...
Smashing Meets Accessibility
10.3.2025
The videos from Smashing Magazine's recent event on accessibility were just posted the other day. I was invited to host the panel discussion with the speakers, including a couple of personal heroes of mine, Stéphanie Walter and Sarah Fossheim. But I was just as stoked to meet Kardo Ayoub who shared...
A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 2)
7.3.2025
In this second article of a two-part series, Temani Afif demonstrates an alternative approach to creating the star rating component from the first article using experimental scroll-driven animations to animate the star rating's colors in place rather than using the border-image property.
A...
Maybe don’t use custom properties in shorthand properties
6.3.2025
This easily qualifies as a "gotcha" in CSS and is a good reminder that the cascade doesn't know everything all at the same time. If a custom property is invalid, the cascade won't ignore it, and it gets evaluated, which invalidates the declaration.
Maybe don’t use custom properties...
Grouping Selection List Items Together With CSS Grid
5.3.2025
Preethi demonstrates how to make a user interface to group selected items using CSS Grid using two different methods: the auto-fill keyword for stable layouts and the span keyword for flexible arrangements.
Grouping Selection List Items Together With CSS Grid originally published on CSS-Tricks...
Functions in CSS?!
3.3.2025
Arguments?! Return values?! What's crazier, you can use functions right now in Chrome Canary! So, after reading and playing around, here are my key insights on what you need to know about CSS Functions.
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A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 1)
28.2.2025
In this article, you'll learn how to make a full-on star rating component out of nothing but a single input element and vanilla CSS.
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Using & Styling the Details Element
26.2.2025
Now that we're 5+ years into
, we know more about it than ever before. I thought I'd round that information up so it's in one place I can reference in the future without having to search the site — and other sites — to find it.
Using & Styling the Details Element originally published...
Applying the Web Dev Mindset to Dealing With Life Challenges
24.2.2025
The grain of truth was that even if you love your job, it can’t love you back. Yet what I’m hooked on isn’t one job, but the power of code and language.
Applying the Web Dev Mindset to Dealing With Life Challenges originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family....
Toe Dipping Into View Transitions
21.2.2025
The View Transitions API is more a set of features than it is about any one particular thing. And it gets complex fast. But in this post, we’ll cover a couple ways to dip your toes into the waters without having to dive in head-first.
Toe Dipping Into View Transitions originally published...
Working With Multiple CSS Anchors and Popovers Inside the WordPress Loop
19.2.2025
I know, super niche, but it could be any loop, really. The challenge is having multiple tooltips on the same page that make use of the Popover API for toggling goodness and CSS Anchor Positioning for attaching a tooltip to its respective anchor element.
Working With Multiple CSS Anchors...
The What If Machine: Bringing the “Iffy” Future of CSS into the Present
17.2.2025
My thesis for today's article offers further reassurance that inline conditionals are probably not the harbinger of the end of civilization: I reckon we can achieve the same functionality right now with style queries, which are gaining pretty good browser support.
The What If Machine: Bringing...
Handwriting an SVG Heart, With Our Hearts
14.2.2025
A while back on CSS-Tricks, we shared several ways to draw hearts, and the response was dreamy. Now, to show my love, I wanted to do something personal, something crafty, something with a mild amount of effort.
Handwriting an SVG Heart, With Our Hearts originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...