Open UI has been working on speccing out the focusgroup attribute: a declarative way to support roving focus & add keyboard nav to composite widgets like toolbars/menus We'd love your feedback! Learn more & see open questions: developer.chrome.com/blog/focusgr... H/t to Edge folks for prototyping

✍️ New post: This, Still Not for Everyone A few thoughts on the new WebAIM Million report. And why we will only improve #accessibility on the Web together. matthiasott.com/notes/this-s...

If you’ve ever tried to build a data table with a sticky header and a sticky first column, you know the pain: the reality was that only one of both would stick. A recent change to CSS fixes this: `position: sticky` now plays nice with _single-axis scrollers_.

I've been caught by this before, and I've seen other experienced #CSS devs get stuck on it: * { color: deepPink; } html#high-specificity { color: teal !important; } If we put that ID on the root, and some text in our document, what color will the text be?

I built a visual explainer of the CSS Cascade, the algorithm that determines the "winning value" from a list of competing declarations. It's built on work by @bram.us and @miriam.codes. cascade.arpit.codes I wrote about how it came together on my blog: arpit.blog/notes/2026/0...

The Jetsons lied to us

The CloseWatcher API landed in Firefox 149, making it easy to listen for platform-specific 'dismiss' signals. Here's how it works:

The recording of @kitation.co.uk talk ‘The Plateau of Accessibility Compliance: Where do we go from here?’ is now available to watch online! 2026.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/chad...

Spec proposal merged. HTML video and audio lazy loading is now a web standard. github.com/whatwg/html/... html.spec.whatwg.org#the-video-el... html.spec.whatwg.org#the-audio-el...

@beyondtellerrand.com Hi Marc, I'd love to attend #btconf Düsseldorf remotely via a streaming pass. Does the scholarship form also cover streaming passes, or is that only for in-person tickets?

I couldn’t make it to #WebDayOut. Thankfully, @adactio.com wrote about it and linked to a bunch of online talk about it. Special shout out to @joshtumath.uk who live-blogged each talk. adactio.com/journal/22465

The 49MB Web Page thatshubham.com/blog/news-au...

@jensimmons.bsky.social Hi Jen, I think I found a bug with CSS anchor positioning in Safari. I have a chain of elements where each one positions itself below the previous one using `inset` and `anchor()`. It works as expected in Chrome & Firefox but breaks in Safari. Pen: codepen.io/editor/arpit...

Today I learned that when using the new CSS `@scope` rule, inherited properties leak through the donut scope. I wrote more about it on my blog. arpit.blog/articles/202...

So. Anchor Positioning and DevTools … I sat together with The Hype™ tonight and this is what we built in 2 hours. Main takeaway from this experiment is that it still requires a “Subject Matter Expert” (in this case: me) to build this, instructing The Hype™ what to do (and sometimes how to do it).

Finding the containing block is *super easy* in @Polypane.app, which literally just lists it for each element in the Elements panel. Along with the offsetParent and the stacking context parent, two other important concepts that often confuse devs Way too many developers are sleeping on Polypane ;)

Oh boy! I had no idea anchor positioning was this complicated. I would be afraid to touch it if not for this recommendation from James Stuckey Weber to make it work reliably. 1. Make the anchor and the positioned element siblings. 2. Put the anchor first in the DOM. www.oddbird.net/2025/01/29/a...

🎉 new blogpost 🎉 Un-Sass'ing My CSS: Native CSS Nesting Nesting was a dream feature in Sass and it's recently become 'native' in CSS. This post covers syntax, specificity, real patterns, and the key differences you need to know. www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/UnS... #CSS #Sass #FrontEnd #WebDev

Hey @kevinpowell.co, I liked your video on the slide-in nav of your website. I recreated the slide-in effect using the upcoming CSS scroll *triggered* animations and blogged about it on my website. Post: arpit.blog/notes/2026/0... CodePen demo: codepen.io/editor/arpit...

Embracing progressive enhancement can make it much easier to adopt newer web features.

View transitions, anchor positioning, ​@scope, focusgroup, invokers, popovers, container queries, grid, relative colors, style-able selects, and more. The web feels like it’s getting so good at exactly the moment our collective worst practices are getting calcified as the default.

Hey @kevinpowell.co, congratulations on 1 million subs!! I love CSS and you’ve played a huge role in that. You’re an excellent teacher. You deserve this and more. Here’s to the next million 🥳

Sugarcube is now publicly available! sugarcube.sh

this is so cool haptics.lochie.me

load-bearing @xkcd.com

Hey @adactio.com, I've been meaning to brush up on my DOM scripting skills and came across your book. But it's been a while since it was published. Do you think it still holds up or is there a different resource you point people to instead?

I always forget what properties are available now so I've written a quick post to put them all in one place Underlining links with CSS www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/und... #FrontEnd #CSS #WebDev #WebDesign

that vinext project is interesting because if, as they claim, it was done by one engineer w/ AI in one week, that engineer is either claiming that they successfully code-reviewed about 22k lines of code every day, which no they didn't, or they are proudly inviting you to run unreviewed code

I keep forgetting how the CSS values `initial`, `unset`, `revert` and `revert-layer` roll back a declaration to a different point in the cascade. It was about time I jotted it down for my future self before it slips my mind again for the 1000th time. arpit.blog/notes/2026/0...

I'll be attending @londonwebstandards.org's State of the Browser for the first time, remotely! 💃🏻

I've been experimenting with an upcoming CSS feature called border-shape lately. It's really cool what you can do with it: lots of practical applications + it opens a lot of doors for non-rectangular UIs! Try it in Canary w/experimental web platform features on, & read more: una.im/border-shape

> Some properties apply to the contents, and those are the properties that inherit. Other properties apply to the box, and do not inherit. www.oddbird.net/2025/09/04/b...

it’s important to keep caring about how things work and how they’re built

In the recording I first shuffle the items in each list using an Element-Scoped View Transitions on each list (running in parallel). Then I start an outer Scoped View Transition while the lists still are reshuffling. Like I said: SO GOOD 🤩 Try it yourself: codepen.io/bramus/pen/b...

Element-Scoped View Transitions are gonna be **SO GOOD** There’s still some details to settle, but the main thing is there: run VTs on a subtree of the DOM, allowing parallel VTs. And with `view-transition-scope` you can limit the scope of `view-transition-name` values, allowing VTs to be nested.

Today I learned that setting `type="reset"` on a `<button>` element in HTML creates a reset button that, when activated, immediately clears all form data, resetting it to its initial state.

This is totally breaking my mind.

Congratulations on the 700 episodes @shoptalkshow.com @davatron5000.bsky.social @chriscoyier.net 🎉 I've been a regular listener (watcher?) since you all started releasing on Youtube. Thanks for all the insight and laughs. It honestly feels like talking web dev with friends. - Fellow Shop-o-maniac

The CSSWG just resolved to add this to the spec 🥳 github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

Just spent some time playing with OKpalette, a color extraction tool by @meodai.bsky.social, and I’m in awe. The 3D spinning text pulled me in immediately. I assumed it was done using JS, finding out it’s done using CSS genuinely blew my mind. Wrote more about it here: arpit.blog/notes/2026/0...

I built a color extraction tool because most of them kept giving me beige. This is OKPalette. It adapts to the image before picking colors. Also: first time I ever tried recording myself. This is the least terrible attempt 😅👇 okpalette.color.pizza youtu.be/qkZlgJLGKI4

Just added a new Cylinder vis to OKPalette. You can now toggle between the cube and the new cylinder view to explore your color palettes in 3D. PS: I "forgot" to max out the manual number input. okpalette.color.pizza

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkZl... OKPalette is live! okpalette.color.pizza

I'm officially a curmudgeon. Here's a rant about the Shadcn component library and how over-complicated its radio buttons are: paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shad... (Inspired by this week's work frustrations lol) #WebDev #CSS #HTML #JavaScript

CSS anchor positioning is newly baseline! This opens the door for lots of new creative CSS. It's a huge feature, but here are the basics.

CSS Day, 11th and 12th of June, just announced @brucel.bsky.social and @ohhelloana.blog as their 2026 MCs. cssday.nl Ticket sales will open later this month. We'll announce the early-bird tickets on our mailing list first. Subscribe to be notified ASAP! cssday.nl/subscribe

2026 CSS wishlist: this year I’ve focused on the key features that I believe will enable us to create better design system DSLs with CSS, as well as, follow separation of concerns in a renewed way. What would you like to see for CSS this year? knowler.dev/blog/2026-cs...

I just watched @jpamental.bsky.social’s talk, The Life of `<p>`. During the Q&A, Jason mentions: > proportion with varying screen size is probably the most overlooked thing right now that I’d want to see people think about more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ggO... 1/2

Over the years I've been asked many times for advice on pedagogy, what to read to learn more, etc. I've finally put together a bunch of materials into one blog post: Key Advice • Readings • Neuromyths • For Computer Scientists • Classroom Tips. Enjoy! parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/ped...