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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...
Bitcoin Slips Under $94K as Stocks Try to Shake Last Week's Jitters
24.2.2025
Macro uncertainty combined with carnage in most of the rest of crypto is weighing bitcoin down
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...
Scroll Driven Animations Notebook
13.2.2025
Adam’s such a mad scientist with CSS. He’s been putting together a series of “notebooks” that make it easy for him to demo code. He’s got one for gradient text, one for a comparison slider, another for accordions…
Scroll Driven Animations Notebook originally...
Typecasting and Viewport Transitions in CSS With tan(atan2())
12.2.2025
We’ve been able to get the length of the viewport in CSS since… checks notes… 2013! Surprisingly, that was more than a decade ago. Getting the viewport width is as easy these days as easy as writing 100vw, but …
Typecasting and Viewport Transitions in...
Organizing Design System Component Patterns With CSS Cascade Layers
10.2.2025
I enjoy organizing code and find cascade layers a fantastic way to organize code explicitly as the cascade looks at it. The neat part is, that as much as it helps with "top-level" organization, cascade layers can be nested, which allows us to author more precise styles based on the cascade...
Make Any File a Template Using This Hidden macOS Tool
10.2.2025
Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file’s parent application to open a copy of it by default, ensuring that the original file remains unedited.
Make Any File...
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...
Baseline Status in a WordPress Block
5.2.2025
The steps for how I took the Baseline Status web component and made it into a WordPress block that can be used on any page of post.
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Compiling CSS With Vite and Lightning CSS
3.2.2025
Are partials the only thing keeping you writing CSS in Sass? With a little configuration, it's possible to compile partial CSS files without a Sass dependency. Ryan Trimble has the details.
Compiling CSS With Vite and Lightning CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
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...
Keeping the page interactive while a View Transition is running
31.1.2025
When using View Transitions you’ll notice the page becomes unresponsive to clicks while a View Transition is running. […] This happens because of the ::view-transition pseudo element – the one that contains all animated snapshots – gets overlayed on top
…
Keeping the page...
The Mistakes of CSS
30.1.2025
All of the things that the CSS Working Group would change if they had a time-traveling Delorean to go back and do things over.
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What on Earth is the `types` Descriptor in View Transitions?
29.1.2025
The @view-transition at-rule has two descriptions. One is the commonly used navigation descriptor. The second is types, the lesser-known of the two, and one that probably envies how much attention navigation gets. But read on to learn why we need types and how it opens up new possibilities...