Distinguishing “Components” and “Utilities” in Tailwind
Here’s a really quick tip. You can think of Tailwind utilities as components — because you can literally make a card “component” out of Tailwind…
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Spiral Scrollytelling in CSS With sibling-index()
Confession time: I’ve read about the performance benefits of scroll-timeline(), but when I see an impressive JavaScript scrollytelling site like this one, it makes me…
Interop 2026
Interop 2026 is formally a thing. So, you know all of those wild, new CSS features we’re always poking at but always putting under a…
What’s !important #5: Lazy-loading iframes, Repeating corner-shape Backgrounds, and More
This issue of What’s !important is dedicated to our friends in the UK (aka me), who are currently experiencing a very miserable 43-day rain streak.…
Making a Responsive Pyramidal Grid With Modern CSS
In the previous article, we built the classic hexagon grid. It was a responsive implementation without the use of media queries. The challenge was to…
Approximating contrast-color() With Other CSS Features
You have an element with a configurable background color, and you’d like to calculate whether the foreground text should be light or dark. Seems easy…
Trying to Make the Perfect Pie Chart in CSS
Speaking of charts… When was the last time you had to use a pie chart? If you are one of those people who have to…
CSS Bar Charts Using Modern Functions
New CSS features can sometimes make it easier and more efficient to code designs we already knew how to create. This efficiency could stem from…
No Hassle Visual Code Theming: Publishing an Extension
Creating your theme is the fun part. After you’re done, the next step is to publish your theme so you — and others — can…
No-Hassle Visual Studio Code Theming: Building an Extension
Years ago, when I read Sarah Drasner’s article on creating a VS Code theme, I silently thought to myself, That’s a lot of work… I’m…
What’s !important #4: Videos & View Transitions, Named Media Queries, How Browsers Work, and More
Neither Chrome, Safari, nor Firefox have shipped new features in the last couple of weeks, but fear not because leading this issue of What’s !important…
How to Style the New ::search-text and Other Highlight-y Pseudo-Elements
Chrome 144 recently shipped ::search-text, which is now one of several highlight-related pseudo-elements. This one selects find-in-page text, which is the text that gets highlighted…
ReliCSS
We all have a few skeletons in our CSS closets. There’s probably that one-off !important where you can now manage that more effectively with cascade…
There is No Need to Trap Focus on a Dialog Element
I was building a Modal component that uses the <dialog> element’s showModal method. While testing the component, I discovered I could tab out of the…
Responsive Hexagon Grid Using Modern CSS
Five years ago I published an article on how to create a responsive grid of hexagon shapes. It was the only technique that didn’t require…