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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?

What it looks like to troubleshoot one of those impossible issues that turns out to be something totally else you never thought of.

I know, I know: there are a ton of content management system options available, and while I’ve tested several, none have really been the one, y’know? Weird pricing models, difficult customization, some even end up becoming a whole ‘nother thing to manage.

Sara Soueidan evaluated the accessibility of CSS Carousels — which are billed as “accessible by default” — and I need …

What does it look like to refactor your own code? John Rhea picks apart an old CSS animation he wrote and walks through the thought process of optimizing it.

Okay, nobody is an exaggeration, but have you seen the stats for hwb()? They show a steep decline, and after working a lot on color in the CSS-Tricks almanac, I’ve just been wondering why that is.

Along with the version 3.13 release, GSAP, and all its awesome plugins, are now freely available to everyone.

Using scroll shadows, especially for mobile devices, is a subtle bit of UX that Chris has covered before. Geoff covered a newer approach that uses the animation-timeline property. Here’s yet another way.

Straight from the W3C Technical Architecture Group: “We see an urgency to have a strict timeline for the removal of …

The CSS shape() function recently gained support in both Chromium and WebKit browsers. It’s a way of drawing complex shapes when clipping elements with the clip-path property.

The GSAP animation library and its plugins are now completely free for open use.

The State of Devs survey is now open to participation, and unlike previous surveys it covers everything except code: career, workplace, but also health, hobbies, and more. 

Let’s run through a quick refresher. Image maps date all the way back to HTML 3.2, where, first, server-side maps and then client-side maps defined clickable regions over an image using map and area elements.