Sure, we can select the <html> element in CSS with, you know, a simple element selector, html. But what other (trivial and perhaps useless) ways can we do it?
The Different Ways to Select <html> in CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Choosing between Popover API and Dialog API is difficult because they seem to do the same job, but they don’t! After a bit lots of research, I discovered that the Popover API and Dialog API are wildly different in terms of accessibility and we'll go over that in this article.
Popover API or Dialog API: Which to Choose? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Despite what’s been a sleepy couple of weeks for new Web Platform Features, we have an issue of What’s !important that’s prrrretty jam-packed. The web community had a lot to say, it seems, so fasten your seatbelts!
What’s !important #6: :heading, border-shape, Truncating Text From the Middle, and More originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
TL;DR: We can center absolute-positioned elements in three lines of CSS. And it works on all browsers!
Yet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Read an explanation of the recent CVE-2026-2441 vulnerability that was labeled a "CSS exploit" that "allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page."
An Exploit … in CSS?! originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Browsers don't just let you bookmark web pages. You can also bookmark JavaScript, allowing you to do so much more than merely save pages.
A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Let’s get nuanced in this article and discuss the capabilities of both SVG and raster imaged so that you can make informed decisions in your own work.
Loading Smarter: SVG vs. Raster Loaders in Modern Web Design originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Danny has several ideas for how we could use :near(), a proposed pseudo-class that detects when the pointer is near an element.
Potentially Coming to a Browser :near() You originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
The distinction between "components" and "utilities" seems clear at first glance, but gets a little blurred when working with them in Tailwind.
Distinguishing “Components” and “Utilities” in Tailwind originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Lee accepts a challenge: arranging text in a spiral that animates as a vortex on scroll... all in CSS.
Spiral Scrollytelling in CSS With sibling-index() originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Interop 2026 is officially a thing and there's plenty of new (and even old) CSS features that we can look forward to being cross-browser compatible and consistent!
Interop 2026 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
This issue of What’s !important is dedicated to our friends in the UK, who are currently experiencing a very miserable 43-day rain streak. Presenting: the five most interesting things to read about CSS from the last couple of weeks. Plus, the latest features from Chrome 145, and anything else you might’ve missed. TL;DR: lots of content, but also lots of rain.
What’s !important #5: Lazy-loading iframes, Repeating corner-shape Backgrounds, and More originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
This is the second part of a small two-part series. In this article, we will explore another type of grid: a pyramidal one. We are still working with hexagon shapes, but a different organization of the elements., while exploring other different shapes.
Making a Responsive Pyramidal Grid With Modern CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
The new contrast-color() function is not fully supported yet. But can we still implement it in a cross-browser friendly way using other new CSS features?
Approximating contrast-color() With Other CSS Features originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Can we make pie chart that's semantic, with flexible markup, and avoids using a JavaScript library? Here's how I tackled it.
Trying to Make the Perfect Pie Chart in CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
It is not all that uncommon to see tools and resources advertised for use by designers and agencies as being “the best”. Obviously, not all can be the best. To find out for yourself you need to know for what and why a given tool or resource is said to be best. Given the number […]
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