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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...
Revisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout
27.1.2025
After 20 years since Andy Clarke first published his book about Multi-Column Layout in CSS, he's back to encourage a fresh look at CSS columns for enhanced readability and design flexibility.
Revisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean...
Positioning Text Around Elements With CSS Offset
24.1.2025
When it comes to positioning elements on a page, including text, there are many ways to go about it in CSS — the literal position property with corresponding inset-* properties, translate, margin, anchor() (limited browser support at the moment), and so forth. The offset property is another...
Some Things You Might Not Know About Custom Counter Styles
23.1.2025
I was reading through Juan’s recent Almanac entry for the @counter-style at-rule and I’ll be darned if he didn’t uncover and unpack some extremely interesting things that we can do to style lists, notably the list marker. You’re probably already …
Some Things...
Creating a “Starred” Feed
21.1.2025
Chris wrote about “Likes” pages a long while back. The idea is rather simple: “Like” an item in your RSS reader and display it in a feed of other liked items. The little example Chris made is still really good.…
Creating a “Starred” Feed originally...
Fancy Menu Navigation Using Anchor Positioning
17.1.2025
Anchor positioning can be great for little interactive effects — as Temani Afif shows off with this clever idea for a menu hover.
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Web-Slinger.css: Across the Swiper-Verse
15.1.2025
Lee Meyer with a super clever idea using scroll-driven animations as an interaction to "like" or "dislike" something.
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A Few Ways That Cloudways Makes Running This Site a Little Easier
14.1.2025
(This is a sponsored post.)
It’s probably no surprise to you that CSS-Tricks is (proudly) hosted on Cloudways, DigitalOcean’s managed hosting arm. Given both CSS-Tricks and Cloudways are part of DigitalOcean, it was just a matter of time …
A Few Ways That Cloudways Makes Running This Site...
How to Wait for the sibling-count() and sibling-index() Functions
13.1.2025
Today, I want to look into one of those cases of impatient and how the community has waited for that feature, to be specific, two upcoming functions: sibling-count() and sibling-index().
How to Wait for the sibling-count() and sibling-index() Functions originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results
9.1.2025
I wrote a post for Smashing Magazine that was published today about this thing that Chrome and Safari have called “Tight Mode” and how it impacts page performance. I’d never heard the term until DebugBear’s Matt Zeunert mentioned it in …
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The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI
6.1.2025
I am still an AI skeptic. The biggest risk I foresee is that if your sole responsibility is to write code, your job is at risk. It’s not time to panic, but I do see a lot of value in evolving your soft skills.
The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI originally published...
Thank You (2024 Edition)
30.12.2024
I'm more thankful this time around because, last year, I didn't even get to write this post. But now that I'm back, writing this feels so, so, so good. There's a lot more gusto going into my writing when I say: thank you so very much! Let's tie a bow on this year and round up what happened around...
A CSS Wishlist for 2025
23.12.2024
2024 has been one of the greatest years for CSS: cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, anchor positioning, animate to height: auto, and many others. It seems out of touch to ask, but what else do we …
A CSS Wishlist for 2025 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
The Little Triangle in the Tooltip
20.12.2024
Today, I want to focus on what I'll call the little triangle in the tooltip. It receives minimal attention but it amazes you by how many ways there are to make them. Let's start with the simplest and make our way up to the not-so-simple.
The Little Triangle in the Tooltip originally published...
How to Create Multi-Step Forms With Vanilla JavaScript and CSS
18.12.2024
When was the last time you developed a multi-step form? There’s so much to think about and so many moving pieces that need to be managed. But doing it by hand can be a good exercise and a great way to polish the basics. Fatuma Abdullaho walks you through her first multi-step form using vanilla...
What ELSE is on your CSS wishlist?
17.12.2024
What else do we want or need CSS to do? Chris kept a CSS wishlist, going back as far as 2013 and following back up on it in 2019. We all have things we'd like to see CSS do and we always will no matter how many sparkly new features we get. We'll round things up and put a list together — so let...
Fluid Superscripts and Subscripts
11.12.2024
How much attention do you pay to the alignments of your subscripts and superscripts? Lorenz Wöehr has you covered with a recipe for fluid scaling.
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CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-12-04): Just Use Grid vs. Display: Masonry
10.12.2024
The CSSWG met to try and finally squash a debate that has been going on for five years: whether Masonry should be a part of Grid or a separate system. We've got coverage of both presentations for ya.
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Smashing Meets Product Design
10.12.2024
I had the pleasure of hosting a recent Smashing Magazine workshop on product design, subbing for Vitaly Friedman who usually runs these things.
What? A front-ender interviewing really smart people about their processes for user research, documenting requirements, and …
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