My thesis for today's article offers further reassurance that inline conditionals are probably not the harbinger of the end of civilization: I reckon we can achieve the same functionality right now with style queries, which are gaining pretty good browser support.
The What If Machine: Bringing the “Iffy” Future of CSS into the Present originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
A while back on CSS-Tricks, we shared several ways to draw hearts, and the response was dreamy. Now, to show my love, I wanted to do something personal, something crafty, something with a mild amount of effort.
Handwriting an SVG Heart, With Our Hearts originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Adam’s such a mad scientist with CSS. He’s been putting together a series of “notebooks” that make it easy for him to demo code. He’s got one for gradient text, one for a comparison slider, another for accordions…
Scroll Driven Animations Notebook originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
We’ve been able to get the length of the viewport in CSS since… checks notes… 2013! Surprisingly, that was more than a decade ago. Getting the viewport width is as easy these days as easy as writing 100vw, but …
Typecasting and Viewport Transitions in CSS With tan(atan2()) originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
I enjoy organizing code and find cascade layers a fantastic way to organize code explicitly as the cascade looks at it. The neat part is, that as much as it helps with "top-level" organization, cascade layers can be nested, which allows us to author more precise styles based on the cascade and inheritance.
Organizing Design System Component Patterns With CSS Cascade Layers originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file’s parent application to open a copy of it by default, ensuring that the original file remains unedited.
Make Any File a Template Using This Hidden macOS Tool originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
A little gem from Kevin Powell's "HTML & CSS Tip of the Week" website, reminding us that using container queries opens up container query units for sizing things based on the size of the queried container.
Container query units: cqi and cqb originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
If you are building a website from scratch you have to rely heavily on your own creativity to achieve any measure of success. In truth, building a great website lies in the underpinning the tools you use are able to create. Drag and drop alone may not be sufficient because it is the creativity of […]
The post 10+ Great Tools & Resources you need to try in 2025 appeared first on WebAppers.
The steps for how I took the Baseline Status web component and made it into a WordPress block that can be used on any page of post.
Baseline Status in a WordPress Block originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Are partials the only thing keeping you writing CSS in Sass? With a little configuration, it's possible to compile partial CSS files without a Sass dependency. Ryan Trimble has the details.
Compiling CSS With Vite and Lightning CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Did you see the release notes for Chrome 133? It's currently in beta, but the Chrome team has been publishing a slew of new articles with pretty incredible demos that are tough to ignore. I figured I'd round those up in one place.
Chrome 133 Goodies originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
When using View Transitions you’ll notice the page becomes unresponsive to clicks while a View Transition is running. […] This happens because of the
::view-transitionpseudo element – the one that contains all animated snapshots – gets overlayed on top
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Keeping the page interactive while a View Transition is running originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
All of the things that the CSS Working Group would change if they had a time-traveling Delorean to go back and do things over.
The Mistakes of CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
The @view-transition at-rule has two descriptions. One is the commonly used navigation descriptor. The second is types, the lesser-known of the two, and one that probably envies how much attention navigation gets. But read on to learn why we need types and how it opens up new possibilities for custom view transitions when navigating between pages.
What on Earth is the `types` Descriptor in View Transitions? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
After 20 years since Andy Clarke first published his book about Multi-Column Layout in CSS, he's back to encourage a fresh look at CSS columns for enhanced readability and design flexibility.
Revisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
When it comes to positioning elements on a page, including text, there are many ways to go about it in CSS — the literal position property with corresponding inset-* properties, translate, margin, anchor() (limited browser support at the moment), and so forth. The offset property is another one that belongs in that list.
Positioning Text Around Elements With CSS Offset originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.