What’s !important #3: Popover Context Menus, @scope, New Web Platform Features, and More
The developer community hasn’t wasted any time kicking off 2026 with some really great articles, demos, and insights. Firefox 147 and Chrome 144 also shipped,…
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Playing With CodePen slideVars
Super cool new CodePen feature alert! You’ve probably seen a bunch of “interactive” demos that let you changed values on the fly from a UI…
Postcard From Web Directions Dev Summit, 2025
Author’s Note: There are already wonderful recaps of the Web Directions Developer Summit I spoke at in November 2025. So, rather than offering another one,…
Future CSS: :drag (and Maybe ::dragged-image?)
Now, I know what you’re thinking. Yet another CSS pseudo-class… But I think this suggestion is rather cool. Earlier this year, it was proposed to add…
What’s !important #2: Conditional View Transitions, CSS/SVG Text Effects, the Best of CSS Bluesky, and More
2026 is almost upon us. I know we’re all itching to see the clock strike midnight (cue The Final Countdown by Europe), but not without…
Thank You (2025 Edition)
If I had to whittle down my favorite thing about CSS-Tricks to one thing — and like Tom Petty hits, there’s a lot of ’em…
text-decoration-inset is Like Padding for Text Decorations
The text-decoration-inset CSS property solves a problem that we’ve had since the beginning of the web, which is that text decorations such as underlines extend…
Masonry Layout is Now grid-lanes
We’ve talked a lot about Masonry layout here on CSS-Tricks, so there’s no need to remind you of the two-sided discussions about how to approach…
Search CSS-Tricks Raycast Extension
I have to search for articles often on this site. And I’d say searching this site is Pretty OK™ in general. Making content searchable on…
Responsive List of Avatars Using Modern CSS (Part 2)
Ready for the second part? If you recall, last time we worked on a responsive list of overlapping avatar images featuring a cut-out between them.…
What’s !important #1: Advent Calendars, CSS Wrapped, Web Platform Updates, and More
Welcome to the first ever What’s !important, a roundup of the best CSS and web development news from the last two weeks. If you’re pressed for…
Toon Title Text Generator
Andy Clarke with a brand-new resource. It generates the sort of fun typography that Andy commonly uses in his own work that’s geared towards cartoon…
Responsive List of Avatars Using Modern CSS (Part 1)
A list of rounded images that slightly overlap each other is a classic web design pattern. You are for sure wondering what the novelty we…
What Else Could Container Queries… Query?
I’ll admit, when container queries first shipped back in 2022, I didn’t really pay attention. I mean, why container size queries when we already have…
Creating Scroll-Based Animations in Full view()
The CSS animation-timeline property accepts a view() function which, in turn, returns a timeline of how much of an element is visible in the part…