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* A website about making websites.
https://css-tricks.com
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Thought a starter pack of CSS-Tricks authors would be a fun way to find folks.
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Thanks to
@sarasoueidan.com
's Practical Accessibility course, I'm much more confident explaining the accessibility benefits of using semantic elements where possible... instead of merely saying that's the best practice.
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Explaining the Accessible Benefits of Using Semantic HTML Elements | CSS-Tricks
Why should you use a semantic <button> instead of a generic <div>? Accessibility, right? By how exactly does it help accessibility?
https://css-tricks.com/explaining-the-accessible-benefits-of-using-semantic-html-elements/
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Trigonometry functions may be the "most hated" CSS feature according to recent polling, but
@monknow.bsky.social
shows off why there's so much to love about them, looking specifically at tan().
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The "Most Hated" CSS Feature: tan() | CSS-Tricks
Last time, we discussed that, sadly, according to theĀ State of CSS 2025 survey, trigonometric functions are deemed the "Most Hated" CSS feature.
https://css-tricks.com/the-most-hated-css-feature-tan/
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CSS trig functions make wayyy more sense the way
@monknow.bsky.social
explains then, even to non-math-y folks like me. He's put together explainers on sin(), cos(), and tan(). āļø
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It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that creative layouts are reserved for larger screens. But check out how
@allthatmalarkey.bsky.social
keeps it real on small screens.
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Getting Creative With Small Screens | CSS-Tricks
On mobile, people can lose their sense of context and canāt easily tell where a section begins or ends. Good small-screen design can help orient them using a variety of techniques.
https://css-tricks.com/getting-creative-with-small-screens/
11 days ago
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An interesting idea from
@silvestar.codes
to use the <details> element for tabbed UI rather than, say, the checkbox hack.
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Pure CSS Tabs With Details, Grid, and Subgrid | CSS-Tricks
Can we use the <details> element as the foundation for a tabbed interface? Why yes, we can!
https://css-tricks.com/pure-css-tabs-with-details-grid-and-subgrid/
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Weāve always been able to affect an elementās structure, like resizing and rotating it. And when we change an elementās intrinsic sizing, its children are affected, too. This is something we can use to our advantage when crafting animations.
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CSS Animations That Leverage the Parent-Child Relationship | CSS-Tricks
When we change an elementās intrinsic sizing, its children are affected, too. This is something we can use to our advantage.
https://css-tricks.com/css-animations-that-leverage-the-parent-child-relationship/
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Hey, so
@wil.to
has a new online course called JavaScript for Everyone brought to you by our friends at
@piccalil.li
. Can't. Recommend. Enough. š Anyway, enjoy this free excerpt on JS expressions from the course!
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An Introduction to JavaScript Expressions | CSS-Tricks
A thorough but approachable lesson on JavaScript expressions excerpted JavaScript For Everyone, a complete online course offered by our friends at Piccalilli.
https://css-tricks.com/an-introduction-to-javascript-expressions/
18 days ago
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Andy's original site design was a classic. This update surpasses it. Look for all the Easter eggs! š£
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Really interested to see the replies here... š
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This'll be a banger of a talk. š„
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24 days ago
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Letās suppose you have some number of elements with the same animation that should animate sequentially. Modern CSS makes this easy and it works for any number of items!
@css-only.dev
explains and demonstrates it so well.
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Sequential linear() Animation With N Elements | CSS-Tricks
Letās suppose you have N elements with the same animation that should animate sequentially. Modern CSS makes this easy and it works for any number of items!
https://css-tricks.com/sequential-linear-animation-with-n-elements/
25 days ago
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The CSS Masonry discussions are a wonderful case study on how CSS features evolve, what "consensus" means, and how that relates to things like Baseline availability.
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Big high-fives to
@tabatkins.com
and
@miriam.codes
for helping add clarity on the whole process! ā
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Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve | CSS-Tricks
Looking at the CSS Masonry discussions and what they can teach us about the development of new CSS features. What is the CSSWGās role? What influence do browsers have? What can learn from the way past...
https://css-tricks.com/masonry-watching-a-css-feature-evolve/
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Such a grossly under-covered topic ā and one I need to get better at as well. Well done! ššš
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about 1 month ago
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"We Completely Missed width/height: stretch" by
@dxnny.fun
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We Completely Missed width/height: stretch | CSS-Tricks
The TL;DR is that stretch does the same thing as declaring 100%, but ignores padding when looking at the available space.
https://css-tricks.com/we-completely-missed-width-height-stretch/
about 1 month ago
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Ana Tudor
about 1 month ago
Little seasonal thing: candy š¬ ghost š» buttons, 3 techniques in one
@codepen.io
demo
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Detailed explanation of the how behind in this
@css-tricks.bsky.social
post
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Bonus: a hover animated, Chrome-only version
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White and black are two very safe colors to create contrast with another color value. But when those are the only two values supported by color-contrast(), the contrast between a solid white/black and any other color may not be the best contrast ratio overall.
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https://css-tricks.com/the-thing-about-contrast-color/
about 1 month ago
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So. Danged. Good. Pairs well with this ginormous guide on color functions by
@sunkanmifafowora.bsky.social
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All thanks to none other than
@miriam.codes
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about 1 month ago
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Interesting to think about what other types of ::picker we'll be able to style beyond <select>. ::picker(select) {} ::picker(date) { } ::picker(color) {} ...
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about 1 month ago
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Patrick Brosset
about 1 month ago
I gave a lightning talk at yesterdayās
@smashingconf.com
Jam session on CSS masonry. Here are my slides. In short: Masonry isnāt only for Pinterest-style layouts, doing Masonry on the web today is hard, but built-in Masonry support is coming to browsers very soon!
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Patrick - Talks
Talks
https://patrickbrosset.com/talks/
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"Solid blocks of text around straight-edged images can feel static. But text that bends around a guitar or curves around a portrait creates movement, which can make a story more compelling and engaging." "Getting Creative With shape-outside" by
@allthatmalarkey.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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Love seeing updated work on the CSS `cross-fade()` and how it's evolving out of the legacy syntax from WebKit's implementation. In short: Generate a single image outta two (or more!)
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cross-fade() | CSS-Tricks
TheĀ cross-fade()Ā function lets you blend more than one image at a specified transparency value.
https://css-tricks.com/almanac/functions/c/cross-fade/
about 1 month ago
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āCode is my horseradish and I've been marinating in this horseradish ocean for quite a while.ā
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Same Idea, Different Paint Brush | CSS-Tricks
Naturally, everything looks like code when I'm staring at a blank canvas. That's whether the canvas is paper, a screen, some Figma artboard, or what have you.
https://css-tricks.com/same-idea-different-paint-brush/
about 1 month ago
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Juan Diego RodrĆguez
about 1 month ago
A new one for CSS-TRICKS!!!
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Safari 26 introduces a lot of new stuff. To be precise, it adds: 75 new features, 3 deprecations, and 171 other improvements. Here's all the CSS goodness you'll want to know about, courtesy of
@monknow.bsky.social
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Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26 | CSS-Tricks
Safari 26 adds:75 new features, 3 deprecations, and 171 other improvements. Here's all the CSS goodness you'll want to know about.
https://css-tricks.com/touring-new-css-features-in-safari-26/
about 1 month ago
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A little personal challenge from
@undeadinstitute.bsky.social
to re-create the animated Gemini button that's not-so-subtle in Gmail.
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Fun Friday stuff! āØ
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Recreating Gmailās Google Gemini Animation | CSS-Tricks
John Rhea challenged himself to recreate the fancy button using the new CSS shape() function sprinkled with animation to get things pretty close.
https://css-tricks.com/recreating-gmails-google-gemini-animation/
about 1 month ago
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You know how we canāt calc() numbers with mixed data types? Well, that's changing (Chrome 140) and it might be a bigger deal that
@amitsheen.bsky.social
describes as "self-awareā CSS.
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CSS Typed Arithmetic | CSS-Tricks
Starting in Chrome 140, we'll be able to calculate numeric values with mixed data types. Sounds small, but Amit demonstrates how big a deal this is, calling it Computational CSS.
https://css-tricks.com/css-typed-arithmetic/
about 2 months ago
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It's been on my reading list for some time, but finally got around to
@ericwbailey.website
's opus on the pitfalls of "inclusive" personas and user research.
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On inclusive personas and inclusive user research | CSS-Tricks
A set of notes taken from Eric Bailey's article about the use of inclusive personas and user research.
https://css-tricks.com/on-inclusive-personas-and-inclusive-user-research/
about 2 months ago
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There's a nice series from
@sturobson.com
getting into *why* and *how* to "un-Sass" CSS.
www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/UnS...
@jeffbridgforth.com
is making a similar leap and shares how he's approaching it:
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Is it Time to Un-Sass? | CSS-Tricks
Many of the Sass features we've grown to love have made their way into native CSS in some shape or form. So, should we still use Sass? This is how developer Jeff Bridgworth is thinking about it.
https://css-tricks.com/is-it-time-to-un-sass/
about 2 months ago
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Did you notice that Trigonometric Functions won the āMost Hated Featureā pageant in this yearās State of CSS survey?
@monknow.bsky.social
thinks they deserve more than a little love, and for good reasonsā¦
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The āMost Hatedā CSS Feature: cos() and sin() | CSS-Tricks
I want to look at practical uses for CSS trigonometric functions. And we'll start with what may be the most popular functions of the "worst" feature: sin()Ā andĀ cos().
https://css-tricks.com/the-most-hated-css-feature-cos-and-sin/
about 2 months ago
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Squircles, bevels, steam punk... the CSS corner-shape property's got a lot of style, but what's it really good?
@dxnny.fun
has a few fun ideas! Check out the marker highlighter.
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What Can We Actually Do With corner-shape? | CSS-Tricks
When I first started messing around with code, rounded corners required five background images or an image sprite likely created in Photoshop, so when
https://css-tricks.com/what-can-we-actually-do-with-corner-shape/
about 2 months ago
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The best way to learn CSS? Still by clicking through a list of shared hyperlinks and getting lost in what you don't know. That's the open web we know and love!
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about 2 months ago
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LOL, great minds think alike when great ideas are floating around. āØ
@sturobson.com
with a couple of ways to un-Sass yourself if compiling partials to a single file is what's keeping you down.
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about 2 months ago
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And then share it!
css-tricks.com/guest-writing/
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about 2 months ago
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Smashing Magazine
2 months ago
š CSS Cascade Layers sound neat, but what happens when you drop them into a messy legacy codebase? Letās talk about the experience of integrating cascade layers into real-world code, the good, the bad, and the spaghetti:
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Integrating CSS Cascade Layers To An Existing Project ā Smashing Magazine
The idea behind this is to share a full, unfiltered look at integrating CSS Cascade Layers into an existing legacy codebase. In practice, itās about refactoring existing CSS to use cascade layers with...
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/09/integrating-css-cascade-layers-existing-project/
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A little silly, but fun: Youāre on a desert island and can only carry 4 CSS properties with you. What are they? Mine: font, color, padding, color-scheme Others: Different. Yours: ?
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Piccalilli
2 months ago
Show the world youāre a HTML or CSS programmer with our new t-shirts, hoodies and sweaters.
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Piccalilli merch is now available!
Show the world youāre a HTML or CSS programmer with our new t-shirts, hoodies and sweaters.
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Love how
@zellwk.bsky.social
goes down a rabbit hole on CSS composition: 1. CSS is composable by nature. 2. You can do composition in HTML or in CSS. ...and ultimately: 3. Styles can be divided into four categories: layouts, typography, theming, and effects.
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Composition in CSS | CSS-Tricks
CSS is a composable language by nature. This composition nature is already built into the cascade. We simply don't talk about composition as a Big Thing because it's the nature of the language.
https://css-tricks.com/composition-in-css/
2 months ago
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š "What You Need to Know About Color Interpolation" by
@sunkanmifafowora.bsky.social
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What You Need to Know About CSS Color Interpolation | CSS-Tricks
Color what? Sunkanmi Fafowora explains how an everyday task for CSS can be used to create better colors experiences.
https://css-tricks.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-css-color-interpolation/
2 months ago
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Wow, lots of ways to contribute to working discussions on web standards popping up today! First WCAG 3.0 and now Interop 2026.
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2 months ago
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And there's a LOT to take in! Great opportunity to be part of the discussion.
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2 months ago
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Seen the draft specification for an image() function? Looks like it'll make it muuuuuuch easier to set background fallbacks without repeating properties... and control directionality in one fell swoop!
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image() | CSS-Tricks
The CSS image() function renders an image from a URL. We also can add a solid color as a fallback, specify the imageās direction, and use media fragments.
https://css-tricks.com/almanac/functions/i/image/
2 months ago
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Harry Roberts
2 months ago
š” I did the research so you donāt have to! This is every element in current Baseline browsers that would need a margin or padding removing in a reset stylesheet:
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Reset Research
Reset Research. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
https://gist.github.com/csswizardry/442de89c46f7ca7389a4afbcd155a2dd
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š Fresh from the ol' CSS Almanac: The image-set() function is sorta like HTML's srcset attribute... but for letting the browser choose the "best" image for a user's device and network conditions.
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image-set() | CSS-Tricks
TheĀ CSS image-set()Ā function allows the browser to display the best image from a given set of images.
https://css-tricks.com/almanac/functions/i/image-set/
2 months ago
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So fun watching other folks take the CSS-Questions challenge. :)
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2 months ago
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The light-dark() function is currently designed to support just two color schemes. Should it support others?
@sunkanmifafowora.bsky.social
says yes _and_ no.
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Should the CSS light-dark() Function Support More Than Light and Dark Values? | CSS-Tricks
The light-dark() function is currently designed to support just two color schemes. Should it support others? Sunkanmi Fafowora says yes and no.
https://css-tricks.com/should-the-css-light-dark-function-support-more-than-light-and-dark-values/
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A dash of modern CSS accomplishes so many things that used to require abstractions, dependencies, and tricks (wink, wink). This one from Christian Sabourin is a great example: custom properties, clamp()-ing, calc()-ing, counters, relational pseudo selectors, etc.
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CSS Elevator: A Pure CSS State Machine With Floor Navigation | CSS-Tricks
In this article, author Chris Sabourin walk through how modern CSS features can build a fully functional, interactive elevator that knows where it is, where itās headed, and how long itāll take to get...
https://css-tricks.com/css-elevator-a-pure-css-state-machine-with-floor-navigation/
2 months ago
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Solid wisdom from
@allthatmalarkey.bsky.social
: "Images in long-form content can (and often should) do more than illustrate. They help set the pace, influence how readers feel, and add character that words alone canāt always convey."
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Getting Creative With Images in Long-Form Content | CSS-Tricks
Images in long-form content can (and often should) do more than illustrate. They help set the pace, influence how readers feel, and add character that words alone canāt always convey.
https://css-tricks.com/getting-creative-with-images-in-long-form-content/
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Amit Sheen
3 months ago
⨠Part three (and final) is out now! ⨠This series has been a deep dive into 3D layered text, and in this part we explore some advanced interactions while making the code cleaner and more dynamic with a touch of JS. 𤩠š Read and share your thoughts on
@css-tricks.com
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Alright, we're capping off
@amitsheen.bsky.social
's CSS-Tricks takeover with the final chapter in his series ā this time making fully responsive bulging text that follows your mouse in real time. āØ
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