Tips and tricks on utilizing the CSS backdrop-filter property to style user interfaces. You’ll learn how to layer backdrop filters among multiple elements, and integrate them with other CSS graphical effects to create elaborate designs.
Using CSS backdrop-filter for UI Effects originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Custom cursors with CSS are great, but we can take things to the next level with JavaScript. Using JavaScript, we can transition between cursor states, place dynamic text within the cursor, apply complex animations, and apply filters.
Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
This CSS-Tricks update highlights significant progress in the Almanac, recent podcast appearances, a new CSS counters guide, and the addition of several new authors contributing valuable content.
CSS-Tricks Chronicles XLIII originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Most of the time, people showcase Tailwind's @apply feature with one of Tailwind's single-property utilities (which changes a single CSS declaration). When showcased this way, @apply doesn't sound promising at all. So obviously, nobody wants to use it. Personally, I think Tailwind's @apply feature is better than described.
Tailwind’s @apply Feature is Better Than it Sounds originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
If I were starting with CSS today for the very first time, I would first want to spend time understanding writing modes because that’s a great place to wrap your head around direction and document flow. But right after that, …
Cascading Layouts: A Workshop on Resilient CSS Layouts originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Chrome has prototyped these features and released them in Chrome 135. Adam Argyle has a wonderful explainer over at the Chrome Developer blog. Kevin Powell has an equally wonderful video where he follows the explainer. This post is me taking notes from them.
CSS Carousels originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Deploying like an idiot comes down to a mismatch between the tools you use to deploy and the reward in complexity reduced versus complexity added.
Feeling Like I Have No Release: A Journey Towards Sane Deployments originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
HTML 5 Readiness was a site that showed through a rainbow of colors the browser support for several web features. What about a new version?
A New “Web” Readiness Report originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Well, it turns out that SVG's built-in animation features were never deprecated as planned. Sure, CSS and JavaScript are more than capable of carrying the load, but it's good to know that SMIL is not dead in the water as previously thought, and is actually well-supported.
SMIL on? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
One thing we can do to help teams code consistently is provide type-checking so that all of the configurable options for a specific component are available while coding. Bryan demonstrates how he does this with TypeScript when working with Astro components.
Crafting Strong DX With Astro Components and TypeScript originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Interactive CSS animations with elements ricocheting off each other seem more plausible in 2025. While it’s unnecessary to implement Pong in CSS, the increasing flexibility and power of CSS reinforce Lee's suspicion that one day it will be a lifestyle choice whether to achieve any given effect with scripting or CSS.
Worlds Collide: Keyframe Collision Detection Using Style Queries originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
With visual regression testing, we can update a page, take screenshots before and after the fact, and compare the results for unintended changes. In this article, learn how to set up visual regression testing using Playwright.
Automated Visual Regression Testing With Playwright originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Having been tasked with creating a UI component for navigating the content of an online course, Daniel found himself neck-deep in a pool of new CSS features that he wound up using on the project.
Case Study: Combining Cutting-Edge CSS Features Into a “Course Navigation” Component originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
There’s a bit of a blind spot when working with CSS logical properties concerning shorthands.
Support Logical Shorthands in CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
I’ve used border-image regularly. Yet, it remains one of the most underused CSS tools, and I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why. Is it possible that people steer clear of border-image because its syntax is awkward and unintuitive? Perhaps it’s because most explanations don’t solve the type of creative implementation problems that most people need to solve. Most likely, it’s both.
Revisiting CSS border-image originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.