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The shape() function’s close and move commands may not be ones you reach for often, but are incredibly useful for certain shapes.

Styling the space between layout items — the gap — has typically required some clever workarounds. But a new CSS feature changes all that with just a few simple CSS properties that make it easy, yet also flexible, to display styled separators between your layout items.

Being the bad boy I am, I don’t take Tailwind’s default approach to cascade layers as the “best” one. Over a year experimenting with Tailwind and vanilla CSS, I’ve come across what I believe is a better solution.

An early preview of Chrome 139 includes six new CSS features, including the first hint of custom functions.

Blob, Blob, Blob. What’s the most effective way to create blob shapes in CSS? Turns out, as always, there are many. Let’s compare them together!

KelpUI is new library that Chris Ferdinandi is developing, designed to leverage newer CSS features and Web Components. I’ve enjoyed following Chris as he’s published an ongoing series of articles detailing his thought process behind the library, getting deep into his approach. You really get a clear picture of his strategy and I love it.

The CSS if() function enables us to use values conditionally, but what exactly does if() do? Let’s look at a possible real-world use case.

The CSS if() function was recently implemented in Chrome 137, making it the first instance where we have it supported by a mainstream browser. Let’s poke at it a bit at a very high level.

Zell discusses refactoring the Resize, Mutation, and Intersection Observer APIs for easier usage, demonstrating how to implement callback and event listener patterns, while highlighting available options and methods.

An introduction to “Color spaces”, “Color models”, “Color gamuts,” and basically all of the “Color somethings” in CSS.

CSS has a number of functions that can be used to set, translate, and manipulate colors. Learn what they are and how they are used with a bunch of examples to get you started.

A freshly updated two-day workshop on developing games with CSS by Kevin Powell and Amit Sheen is now available (and …

How do you stay informed of new CSS features when the language evolves quickly and information is spread all around the web? Sacha Greif has some tips from his work running an annual survey focused on new CSS features.

ResizeObserver, MutationObserver, and IntersectionObserver enhance performance over their predecessors. Zell discusses their API similarities, usage steps, refactoring strategies, and advantages with practical examples.

We put it to the test and it turns out Sass can replace JavaScript, at least when it comes to low-level logic and puzzle behavior. With nothing but maps, mixins, functions, and a whole lot of math, we managed to bring our Tangram puzzle to life, no JavaScript required.

The HTML popover attribute transforms elements into top-layer elements that can be opened and closed with a button or JavaScript. Popovers can be dismissed a number of ways, but there is no option to auto-close them. Preethi has a technique you can use.

This is the third article in a series about the CSS shape() function. We’ve covered drawing lines and arcs in previous articles and, this time, we look specifically at the curve command and how to use it for drawing complex shapes.

The contrast-color() function doesn’t check color contrast, but rather it outright resolves to either black or white (whichever one contrasts the most with your chosen color). Safari Technology Preview recently implemented it and we explore its possible uses in this article.

The State of CSS 2025 Survey dropped a few days ago, and besides anticipating the results, it’s exciting to see a lot of the new things shipped to CSS reflected in the questions.

Chrome 137 introduces the newly-specced if() function. Una Kravets posted a nice video overview and Temani Afif writes about it …

So, how can you take dialogue box design beyond the generic look of frameworks and templates? How can you style them to reflect a brand’s visual identity and help to tell its stories? Here’s how I do it in CSS using ::backdrop, backdrop-filter, and animations.

This is the second part of a series that dives deep into the CSS shape() command, continuing with a more detailed look at the arc command.

Firefox 139 includes an update where content inside a <details> element is included in an in-page search. Previously, that content …

The reading-flow and reading-order proposed CSS properties are designed to specify the source order of HTML elements in the DOM tree, or in simpler terms, how accessibility tools deduce the order of elements. You’d use them to make the focus order of focusable elements match the visual order, as outlined in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2).

This is the first part of a series that dives deep into the shape function, starting with shapes that use lines and arcs.

Clever, clever that Andy Bell. He shares a technique for displaying image alt text when the image fails to load. Well, more precisely, it’s a technique to apply styles to the alt when the image doesn’t load, offering a nice UI fallback for what would otherwise be a busted-looking error.

Shape master Temani Afif has what might be the largest collection of CSS shapes on the planet with all the …

Answering a reader’s question about how to create a complex numbering system with CSS list counters.

Some weekend reading on the heels of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAADM), which took place yesterday. The Email Markup Consortium …

Hey, isn’t there a fairly new CSS feature that works with scroll regions? Oh yes, that’s Scroll-Driven Animations. Shouldn’t that mean we can trigger an animation while scrolling through the items in a CSS carousel?