2026 is almost upon us. I know we’re all itching to see the clock strike midnight (cue The Final Countdown by Europe), but not without recapping the best CSS-related things that happened over the last two weeks!
What’s !important #2: Conditional View Transitions, CSS/SVG Text Effects, the Best of CSS Bluesky, and More originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
This is the best job I've had in my life and it's only possible because you keep showing up each day to read, learn, share, and discuss all-things-front-end (and a little CSS, of course) with us.
Thank You (2025 Edition) originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
The text-decoration-inset property solves a problem that we’ve had since the beginning of the web, which is that text decorations such as underlines extend beyond the first and last characters, resulting in vertical misalignment.
text-decoration-inset is Like Padding for Text Decorations originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
It's settled! A new CSS display property keyword called grid-lanes will trigger a masonry layout mode.
Masonry Layout is Now grid-lanes originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
IMPACT to save 20% off today).Jelte Lagendijk built a Raycast extension for searching CSS-Tricks articles where you simply type and a get a solid set of real-time results.
Search CSS-Tricks Raycast Extension originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
In this article, we follow up the work we did to create responsive rows of circular images in a previous article by arranging the images around a circle with a clean hover effect.
Responsive List of Avatars Using Modern CSS (Part 2) originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
The best CSS news from around the web from the last two weeks. In this edition: advent calendars, CSS Wrapped 2025, and the latest Web Platform Updates.
What’s !important #1: Advent Calendars, CSS Wrapped, Web Platform Updates, and More originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Andy Clarke with a brand-new resource. It generates the sort of fun typography that Andy commonly uses in his own work that's geared towards cartoon headings.
Toon Title Text Generator originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
A list of rounded images that slightly overlap each other is a classic web design pattern. The main idea is not complex, but the new thing is the responsive part. that dynamically adjusts the overlap between the images so they fit inside the container.
Responsive List of Avatars Using Modern CSS (Part 1) originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
How far can we really go with container queries? There are dozens of media queries now, so what if there were dozens of container queries as well? What could we use them for?
What Else Could Container Queries… Query? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
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.
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.
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CSS Wrapped 2025 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
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.
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.
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.