That feeling when things make "click" and you understand something from the ground (finally). Thanks to @frontendmasters.com and @anjana.dev

Staggered Animation with CSS sibling-* Functions The new CSS sibling-index() (and -count()) functions are perfect for staggered timing affects. This goes a little step further staggering both before and after a selected element.

The Weird Parts of position: sticky; There are a number of things that can rain on your sticky parade. Maybe it's time to actually understand why.

Perfectly Pointed Tooltips: All Four Sides Tooltips are a natural fit for the abilities of Anchor Positioning, which can help place them on *any* side or corner. It does make dealing with the pointer extra tricky though.

Super Simple Full-Bleed & Breakout Styles Having a width-limited centered column of content is common and good, but what do you do when you need to break out? It's not hard these days, but it does depend on the situation.

Perfectly Pointed Tooltips: A Foundation The Anchor Positioning API in CSS is very powerful. This is the beginning of a series where we understand it through the perfect use-case: tooltips.

Looking to upskill your backend knowledge? Highly recommend looking into GO. I did a course with @frontendmasters.com. This was great, but I honestly think it would be quite easy to get started by yourself And, don't forget to write or draw what you learn, people! It will stick much easier 🙌🏼

The Two Button Problem When you've got two buttons with two different looks (and no cursor), how do you know which one you're about to activate? You'll need to be careful with the design.

Boarding soon as I head out for my Modern CSS Fundamentals workshop with @frontendmasters.com

50 Reasons to Build a Website Should have done 150.

Modern CSS Round-Out Tabs We can use `shape()` to carve away the edges of an element to look like a folder tab. By hand.

CSS Counters in Action CSS has counter variables (based on matching selectors) that you can output as formatted content or use in calculations.

Numbers That Fall (Scroll-Driven Animations & Sibling Index) With view() style scroll-driven animations, it's helpful to think about how you want it to work then tweak the ranges toward that goal.

A Progressive Enhancement Challenge You want to hide an interactive element that you don't need anymore after JavaScript loads/runs. Can you do it without a "flash" or layout shift?

Inset Shadows Directly on img Elements (Part 1) Inset `box-shadow` doesn't work directly on . There are work-arounds, but this SVG filter can do it directly. Don't run! There is powerful stuff to learn here through interactive demos.

How much do you really know about media queries? There are a ton more @media queries than "width" and "prefers-reduced-motion". Let's have a long, along with use-cases.

The Coyier CSS Starter A fairly opinionated CSS starter by Chris, following a set of personal principals to guide what is in there and what isn't.

I thought about things that have happened in CSS in 2025 and what I think you should probably know. Then I blogged it. frontendmasters.com/blog/what-yo... It's not *everything* — it's my own curated list.

What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (2025 Edition) If you thought 2024 was packed with amazing new CSS, well, you're right. But so is 2025 and it keeps looking bright. Check out our list of the best stuff with easy-to-reference examples.

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Just past 1000 videos on YouTube, and (very slowly) coming up on 1 million subscribers... AND as was pointed out to me by @nerdy.dev, I'm also approaching 100 million total views! 🤯 Lots of subs is a fun stat, but that's absolutely bonkers.

CSS offset and animation-composition for Rotating Menus The article explains how to design and animate a *circular* menu (that rotates in a circle!) in CSS using offset and animation-composition.

Replace Your Animated GIFs with SVGs You can animate an .svg and it will play even with an `` or `background-image`, making it a viable GIF replacement if you can pull it off!

Choosing the Right Model in Cursor Cursor has an "auto" mode, "but if you care about cost or predictability, it’s worth picking models manually." says Steve Kinney.

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Getting Started with Cursor Cursor is an AI-focused VS Code fork. Here's Steve Kinney with a nice overview of what it offers and how to start getting help out of it right away.

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The `-path` of Least Resistance (Part 2) This time we're looking at offset-path (and friends), which can be used to create movement when animated and benefits from all the same fancy functions that we learned about with clip-path.

The `-path` of Least Resistance (Part 1) A deep dive into `clip-path` from Amit Sheen, a very powerful tool in shape creation on the web, particularly now with `shape()`.

Opening a Details Element from the URL If the #hash in the URL matches the ID of an element *inside* a element, it'll open. No other fancy code required.

Very Early Playing with random() in CSS (Only Safari Technical Preview!) Awfully cool `random()` is coming in CSS. The design possibilities are quite cool.

Quick Dark Mode Toggles All the browsers DevTools have a way of emulating color modes. The are essentially faking the system preference at the application level. Here's where those controls are located and another nice tool.

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Obsessing Over Smooth radial-gradient() Disc Edges An underdog media query, resolution queries, comes to the rescue here in defining radial gradients that don't blur or get the jaggies.

Web Design: What is the web capable of that is hard to express in design software? The web platform has a heaping helping of more design capability built into it than any design software does.

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A Nice Vanilla App Archicture Using Web Components and CSS Module Scripts CSS module scripts help keep the dream of co-locating files that all relate to a component, without needing a bundler.

Using the Custom Highlight API You can get your hands on ranges of text in JavaScript, then apply a named "highlight" on them, so you can style that range in CSS with no other selector necessary.

Get the number of auto-fit/auto-fill columns in CSS The whole point of auto-fit and auto-fill is that you aren't saying how many columns to use. But if you knew how many the browser chose, you can make nice design decisions.

Infinite Marquee Animation using Modern CSS A row of logos that animate forever perfectly and don't have any duplicated HTML or JavaScript at all is quite a trick. Thanks modern CSS!

Should we NEVER use non-logical properties? Best bet: just always use them. More nuanced take: there is a few situations where using the physical property is still releavant.

Liquid Glass on the Web It's a complicated look! There may or may not be blurring, light refracts in tricky ways, the highlights are quite bright, and you've got to be very careful about text contrast accessibility.

The Figcaption Problem When an image isn't "full width", but you want that caption underneath to wrap at the end of the image.

Introducing Zustand (State Management) Zustand is a minimal, but fun and effective state management library which just may improve your render performance.

Adaptive Alerts (a CSS scroll-state Use Case) A single button, but it has two different behaviors in JavaScript depending on how far you’ve scrolled in an element (as determined by CSS!)

Stacked Transforms A look at what happens when you add a whole list of transforms to an element, and how that interacts with `animation-composition`.

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Deploy a Site with a Build Process & a Custom Domain Name The last part of this series is taking our site that we've got in GitHub and addng an Astro build process to it, then mapping a domain we own to the Netlify-hosted site.