Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26
A couple of days ago, the Apple team released Safari 26.0! Is it a big deal? I mean, browsers release new versions all the time,…
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Recreating Gmail’s Google Gemini Animation
I always see this Google Gemini button up in the corner in Gmail. When you hover over it, it does this cool animation where the…
CSS Typed Arithmetic
CSS typed arithmetic is genuinely exciting! It opens the door to new kinds of layout composition and animation logic we could only hack before. The…
On inclusive personas and inclusive user research
I’m inclined to take a few notes on Eric Bailey’s grand post about the use of inclusive personas in user research. As someone who has…
Is it Time to Un-Sass?
Several weeks ago, I participated in Front End Study Hall. Front End Study Hall is an HTML and CSS focused meeting held on Zoom every…
The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: cos() and sin()
No feature is truly “the worst” in CSS, right? After all, it’s all based on opinion and personal experience, but if we had to reach…
What Can We Actually Do With corner-shape?
When I first started messing around with code, rounded corners required five background images or an image sprite likely created in Photoshop, so when border-radius…
Compiling Multiple CSS Files into One
Stu Robson is on a mission to “un-Sass” his CSS. I see articles like this pop up every year, and for good reason as CSS…
What’re Your Top 4 CSS Properties?
That’s what Donnie D’Amato asks in a recent post: You are asked to build a website but you can use only 4 CSS properties, what…
Composition in CSS
Tailwind and other utility libraries have been huge proponents of composition. But, to me, their version of composition has always carried a heavy sense of…
What You Need to Know About CSS Color Interpolation
Color interpolation, loosely speaking, is the process of determining the colors between two color points. It allows us to create unique colors, beautiful palettes, better…
Should the CSS light-dark() Function Support More Than Light and Dark Values?
One of the newer CSS features that has piqued my interest: the light-dark() function. And I’ve been closely following it ever since it became Baseline back in…
CSS Elevator: A Pure CSS State Machine With Floor Navigation
As a developer with a passion for state machines, I’ve often found myself inspired by articles like “A Complete State Machine Made with HTML Checkboxes…
A Radio Button Shopping Cart Trick
Editor’s note: This is a really clever idea that Preethi shared, but you will also see that it comes with accessibility drawbacks because it uses…
Getting Creative With Images in Long-Form Content
When you picture placing images in long-form content — like articles, case studies, or reports — the standard approach is inline rectangles, breaking up blocks…