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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.

Brad Frost is running this new little podcast called Open Up. Folks write in with questions about the “other” side …

The fact that anchor positioning eschews HTML source order is so CSS-y because it’s another separation of concerns between content and presentation.

In this post, Blackle Mori shows you a few of the hacks found while trying to push the limits of Cohost’s HTML support. Use these if you dare, lest you too get labelled a CSS criminal.

The CSSWG just released the first public working draft of the specifications for adding gap decorations — you know, like …

Yay, let’s jump for text-wrap: pretty landing in Safari Technology Preview! But beware that it’s different from how it works in Chromium browsers.

There was once upon a time when native CSS lacked many essential features, leaving developers to come up with all sorts of ways to make CSS easier to write over the years.

Tips and tricks on utilizing the CSS backdrop-filter property to style user interfaces. You’ll learn how to layer backdrop filters among multiple elements, and integrate them with other CSS graphical effects to create elaborate designs.

Custom cursors with CSS are great, but we can take things to the next level with JavaScript. Using JavaScript, we can transition between cursor states, place dynamic text within the cursor, apply complex animations, and apply filters.

Browsers are planning to update UA stylesheets for nested <h1> elements. It’s a good idea to make sure your nested …

This CSS-Tricks update highlights significant progress in the Almanac, recent podcast appearances, a new CSS counters guide, and the addition of several new authors contributing valuable content.

Most of the time, people showcase Tailwind’s @apply feature with one of Tailwind’s single-property utilities (which changes a single CSS declaration). When showcased this way, @apply doesn’t sound promising at all. So obviously, nobody wants to use it. Personally, I think Tailwind’s @apply feature is better than described.

If I were starting with CSS today for the very first time, I would first want to spend time understanding …

Chrome has prototyped these features and released them in Chrome 135. Adam Argyle has a wonderful explainer over at the Chrome Developer blog. Kevin Powell has an equally wonderful video where he follows the explainer. This post is me taking notes from them.

Deploying like an idiot comes down to a mismatch between the tools you use to deploy and the reward in complexity reduced versus complexity added.

HTML 5 Readiness was a site that showed through a rainbow of colors the browser support for several web features. What about a new version?