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12/10/2025   CSS Tricks

It’s not that hard to do! Preethi shows you how it's really the same old animation you’re used to writing in CSS, only applied on a view timeline instead of a normal timeline.


Creating Scroll-Based Animations in Full view() originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

12/09/2025   Smashing Magazine
We’ve got exciting news! eBook versions of “Accessible UX Research,” a new Smashing Book by Michele A. Williams, are now available for download! Which means soon the book will go to the printer. Order the eBook for instant download now or reserve your print copy at the presale price.
12/09/2025   CSS Tricks

The Chrome Dev Team recaps the new CSS features that shipped in Google Chrome this past year in one amazingly designed webpage. They cover new functionality for creating more customizable components, next-gen interactions, and optimizing ergonomics.

We’ve …


CSS Wrapped 2025 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

12/09/2025   CSS Tricks

The Chrome team recently prototyped a working solution for fitting text to the width of a container in CSS using a text-grow property.


Fit width text in 1 line of CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

12/09/2025   Smashing Magazine
CSS Wrapped 2025 is out! We’re entering a world where CSS can increasingly handle logic, state, and complex interactions once reserved for JavaScript. Here is an unpacking of the standout highlights and how they connect to the bigger evolution of modern CSS.
12/08/2025   CSS Tricks

I would like to tell you what I learned from a five-year old child about HTML and CSS. It’s funny how explaining something you do almost naturally teaches you about yourself and what you take for granted.


That Time I Tried Explaining HTML and CSS to My 5-Year Old Niece originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

12/08/2025   Smashing Magazine
Lead your organization’s AI strategy before someone else defines it for you. A practical framework for UX professionals to shape AI implementation.
12/05/2025   CSS Tricks

It's easy to think of HTML Web Components as a recent feature, but it has roots that go all the way back to 1998.


HTML Web Components Proposal From 1998 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

12/05/2025   Smashing Magazine
Explainable AI isn’t just a challenge for data scientists. It’s also a design challenge and a core pillar of trustworthy, effective AI products. Victor Yocco offers practical guidance and design patterns for building explainability into real products.
12/04/2025   CSS Tricks

A good measure makes reading text comfortable, while a bad one makes it more difficult. So, rather than allowing layout to dictate the measure, doesn’t it make more sense for the measure to inform layout decisions?


Getting Creative With “The Measure” originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

12/02/2025   CSS Tricks

Unconvinced of the value of scrollytelling? Alright, skeptic, let’s first warm up with some common use cases for scroll-based styling.


Scrollytelling on Steroids With Scroll-State Queries originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

12/02/2025   Smashing Magazine
CSS Masonry is almost here! Patrick Brosset takes a deep dive into what this long-awaited feature means for web developers and how you could make use of it in your own work.
12/01/2025   CSS Tricks

Bramus:

Chrome 144 features a small change to overscroll-behavior: it now also works on non-scrollable scroll containers. While this change might seem trivial, it fixes an issue developers have been dealing with for ages: prevent a page from


Prevent a page from scrolling while a dialog is open originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

11/30/2025   Smashing Magazine
With December just around the corner, how about some new desktop wallpapers to welcome the last month of the year — and the holiday season, if you’re celebrating? Our latest edition of monthly wallpapers has got you covered. Enjoy!
11/27/2025   Smashing Magazine
CAPTCHAs were meant to keep bots out, but too often, they lock people with disabilities out, too. From image classification to click-based tests, many “human checks” are anything but inclusive. There’s no universal solution, but understanding real user needs is where accessibility truly starts.
11/25/2025   Smashing Magazine
We’re so happy to announce that “Maturing Design Systems”—a Smashing book by Ben Callahan — will soon be joining the Smashing Library! Ben’s insights and advice are so powerful, we thought you might like to read an excerpt from the book. Subscribe to our Smashing newsletter to be notified when orders are open.
11/24/2025   CSS Tricks

There are many ways to share properties, but what would it look like to inherit and use any parent property value on a child?


On Inheriting and Sharing Property Values originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

11/24/2025   Smashing Magazine
Practical guidelines on designing time-critical products that prevent errors and improve accuracy. Part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the code 🎟 IMPACT to save 20% off today). With a live UX training starting next week.
11/21/2025   CSS Tricks

Sketch probably didn't "have" to redesign its UI to line up with macOS Tahoe, but a big part of its appeal is the fact that it feels like it totally belongs to the Mac.


Sketch: A guided tour of Copenhagen originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

11/21/2025   Smashing Magazine
Animations can be one of the most joyful parts of building interfaces, but without structure, they can also become one of the biggest sources of frustration. By consolidating and standardizing keyframes, you take something that is usually messy and hard to manage and turn it into a clear, predictable system.
11/20/2025   CSS Tricks

Is there really a difference between using :not(:open) and :closed? As always, it depends. Sunkanmi Fafowora explains why :closed is currently not a thing.


Should We Even Have :closed? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

11/18/2025   Smashing Magazine
Server chaos doesn’t have to be the norm. AI-ready infrastructure and automation can bring clarity, performance, and focus back to your web work.
11/17/2025   CSS Tricks

If we have a ratio that represents the sine, cosine or tangent of an angle, how can we get the original angle? This is where inverse trigonometric functions come in!


The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: asin(), acos(), atan() and atan2() originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

11/14/2025   CSS Tricks

The extremely new framework that caught lots of attention will continue as a personal project.


Quiet UI Came and Went, Quiet as a Mouse originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

11/14/2025   Smashing Magazine
Debugging controllers can be a real pain. Here’s a deep dive into how CSS helps clean it up and how to build a reusable visual debugger for your own projects.
11/13/2025   CSS Tricks

Being able to use the range syntax with container style queries — which we can do starting with Chrome 142 — means that we can compare literal numeric values as well as numeric values tokenized by custom properties or the attr() function.


The Range Syntax Has Come to Container Style Queries and if() originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

11/13/2025   Smashing Magazine
There are many existing web features and technologies in the wild that you may never touch directly in your day-to-day work. Perhaps you’re fairly new to web development and are simply unaware of them because you’re steeped in the abstraction of a specific framework that doesn’t require you to know it deeply, or even at all. Bryan Rasmussen looks specifically at XPath and demonstrates how it can be used alongside CSS to query elements.
11/11/2025   Smashing Magazine
There are lots of tips for [improving your website performance](https://www.debugbear.com/blog/improve-website-performance?utm_campaign=sm-10). But even if you follow all of the advice, are you able to maintain an optimized site? And are you targeting the right pages? Matt Zeunert outlines an effective strategy for web performance optimization and explains the roles that different types of data play in it.
11/10/2025   CSS Tricks

A few links about headings that I've had stored under my top hat.


Headings: Semantics, Fluidity, and Styling — Oh My! originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.