Thinking Deeply About Theming and Color Naming
As a front-end developer, I’ve been pretty curious about how other people code up their websites. So I tend to poke my head into design…
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Keeping Article Demos Alive When Third-Party APIs Die
After four years, the demos in my “Headless Form Submission with the WordPress REST API” article finally stopped working. The article includes CodePen embeds that…
Making a Masonry Layout That Works Today
Many CSS experts have weighed heavily on possible syntaxes for a new masonry layout feature last year. There were two main camps and a third…
Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus
Every UI block in Tailwind Plus is now fully functional, accessible, and interactive, even if you don’t use a framework like React or Vue. This…
How to Discover a CSS Trick
Do we invent or discover CSS tricks? Michelangelo described his sculpting process as chiseling away superfluous material to reveal the sculpture hidden inside the marble,…
Atomic Design Certification Course
Brad Frost introduced the “Atomic Design” concept wayyyy back in 2013. He even wrote a book on it. And we all took notice, because that…
A First Look at the Interest Invoker API (for Hover-Triggered Popovers)
Chrome 139 is experimenting with Open UI’s proposed Interest Invoker API, which would be used to create tooltips, hover menus, hover cards, quick actions, and…
A Primer on Focus Trapping
Focus trapping is a term that refers to managing focus within an element, such that focus always stays within it: If a user tries to…
Getting Creative With Versal Letters
A while back, our man Geoff Graham treated us to a refresher on the CSS initial-letter property, but how can you style drop and initial…
Getting Clarity on Apple’s Liquid Glass
Folks have a lot to say about “liquid glass,” the design aesthetic that Apple introduced at WWDC 2025. Some love it, some hate it, and…
What I Took From the State of Dev 2025 Survey
State of Devs 2025 survey results are out! While the survey isn’t directly related to the code part of what we do for work, I do love…
Setting Line Length in CSS (and Fitting Text to a Container)
First, what is line length? Line length is the length of a container that holds a body of multi-line text. “Multi-line” is the key part…
The Layout Maestro Course
Layout. It’s one of those easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master things, like they say about playing bass. Not because it’s innately difficult to, say, place two elements next…
Scroll-Driven Sticky Heading
Scroll-driven animations are great! They’re a powerful tool that lets developers tie the movement and transformation of elements directly to the user’s scroll position. This…
Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 4: Close and Move
This is the fourth post in a series about the new CSS shape() function. So far, we’ve covered the most common commands you will use…