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10/27/2025   CSS Tricks

Can we use the <details> element as the foundation for a tabbed interface? Why yes, we can!


Pure CSS Tabs With Details, Grid, and Subgrid originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

10/27/2025   Smashing Magazine
Here is a lesson on Iterators. Iterables implement the iterable iteration interface, and iterators implement the iterator iteration interface. Sounds confusing? Mat breaks it all down in the article.
10/24/2025   CSS Tricks

When we change an element’s intrinsic sizing, its children are affected, too. This is something we can use to our advantage.


CSS Animations That Leverage the Parent-Child Relationship originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

10/22/2025   CSS Tricks

A thorough but approachable lesson on JavaScript expressions excerpted JavaScript For Everyone, a complete online course offered by our friends at Piccalilli.


An Introduction to JavaScript Expressions originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

10/22/2025   Smashing Magazine
Motion can be tricky: too much distracts, too little feels flat. Ambient animations sit in the middle. They’re subtle, slow-moving details that add atmosphere without stealing the show. In part two of his series, web design pioneer Andy Clarke shows how ambient animations can add personality to any website design.
10/20/2025   CSS Tricks

Honeypots are fields that developers use to prevent spam submissions. They still work in 2025. But you got to set a couple of tricks in place so spambots can’t detect your honeypot field.


Building a Honeypot Field That Works originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

10/17/2025   Smashing Magazine
A simple but powerful mental model for working with AI: treat it like an enthusiastic intern with no real-world experience. Paul Boag shares lessons learned from real client projects across user research, design, development, and content creation.
10/16/2025   Smashing Magazine
Research isn’t everything. Facts alone don’t win arguments, but powerful stories do. Here’s how to turn your research into narratives that inspire trust and influence decisions.
10/15/2025   CSS Tricks

Let’s 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!


Sequential linear() Animation With N Elements originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

10/13/2025   CSS Tricks

What can CSS Masonry discussions teach us about the development of new CSS features? What is the CSSWG’s role? What influence do browsers have? What can learn from the way past features evolved?


Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

10/13/2025   Smashing Magazine
From A/B tests to AI slop, the modern web is bleeding out its colour. Standardized, templated, and overoptimized, it’s starting to feel like a digital Levittown. But it doesn’t have to be.
10/10/2025   CSS Tricks

The TL;DR is that stretch does the same thing as declaring 100%, but ignores padding when looking at the available space.


We Completely Missed width/height: stretch originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

10/08/2025   CSS Tricks

One of our favorites, Andy Clarke, on the one thing keeping the CSS contrast-color() function from true glory:

For my website design, I chose a dark blue background colour (#212E45) and light text (#d3d5da). This


The thing about contrast-color originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

10/06/2025   CSS Tricks

There are so many creative opportunities for using shape-outside that I’m surprised I see it used so rarely. So, how can you use it to add personality to a design? Here’s how I do it.


Getting Creative With shape-outside originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

10/06/2025   Smashing Magazine
SVGs, they scale, yes, but how else can you make them adapt even better to several screen sizes? Web design pioneer Andy Clarke explains how he builds what he calls “adaptive SVGs” using ``, ``, and CSS Media Queries.
10/03/2025   Smashing Magazine
Ready to move beyond static mockups? Here is a practical, step-by-step guide to Intent Prototyping — a disciplined method that uses AI to turn your design intent (UI sketches, conceptual models, and user flows) directly into a live prototype, making it your primary canvas for ideation.
10/01/2025   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.


Same Idea, Different Paint Brush originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

09/30/2025   Smashing Magazine
How about some new wallpapers to get your desktop ready for fall and the upcoming Halloween season? We’ve got you covered! Following our monthly tradition, the wallpapers in this post were created with love by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
09/29/2025   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.


Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.