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As awesome as I think it is, CSS Anchor Positioning has a lot of quirks, some of which are the product of its novelty and others due to its unique way of working. Today, I want to bring you yet another Anchor Positioning quirk that has bugged me since I first saw it.

Join the Chrome DevRel team and a skateboarding Chrome Dino on a journey through the latest CSS launched for Chrome …

Anselm Hannemann on the intersection between frameworks and learning the basics: Nowadays people can write great React and TypeScript code. …

Striking the right balance can be tough. We don’t want cool mama bear’s porridge or hot papa’s bear porridge, but something right in the middle, like baby bear’s porridge.

We can anchor one element to another. We can also attach one element to multiple anchors. In this experiment, Ryan riffs on those ideas and comes up with a new way to transition between two anchors and the result is a practical use case that would normally require JavaScript.

What’s it look like to create a dashboard within the WordPress admin for analyzing Google Analytics data across 900 blogs across 25 multisite instances? It involves designing a user-friendly interface, leveraging the WordPress REST API, implementing a plugin for data retrieval, and addressing challenges like rate limits and authentication.

Adam Argyle wraps up the search for a CSS logo, check out CSS’ new look!

Most images require description for clarity, there are exceptions. This set of notes looks at different situations and contexts where alt text may not be needed and what to do in those cases.

Donut scoping addresses the challenge of preventing parent styles from leaking to nested content. Originating from a 2011 concept by Nicole Sullivan, the issue has evolved, culminating in 2024’s @scope at-rule. This allows for more precise CSS styling, safeguarding content from unwanted inheritance while managing global CSS complexities.

Web browsers are experimenting with two HTML attributes — technically, they’re called “invoker commands” — that are designed to invoke popovers, dialogs, and further down the line, all kinds of actions without writing JavaScript. Although, if you do reach for JavaScript, the new attributes come with some new events that we can listen for.

Do you subscribe to Piccalilli? You should. If you’re reading that name for the first time, that would be none other than Andy Bell running the ship and he’s reimagined the site from the ground-up after coming out of hibernation this year. You’re likely familiar with Andy’s great writing here on CSS-Tricks.

“Waits are a price that developers ask users to pay and loading spinners only buy so much time.” —Alex Russell (permalink)

I’m interviewing Alex Russell tomorrow for Smashing Magazine — it’s free so come and join the chat as we discuss …

You’ve played Flexbox Froggy before, right? Or maybe Grid Garden? They’re both absolute musts for learning the basics of modern CSS layout using Flexbox and CSS Grid. Thomas Park made those and he’s back with another game: Anchoreum.

Another title from A Book Apart has been re-released for free. The latest? Tim Brown’s Flexible Typesetting. I may not be the utmost expert on typography and its best practices but I do remember reading this book (it’s still on the shelf next to me!) thinking maybe, just maybe, I might be able to hold a conversation about it with Robin when I finished it.

I like how I’m hearing animations distinguished as “time-based animations” (or TBA) and “scroll-driven animations” (or SDA). A third? Maybe …

Let’s spend some time looking at disclosures, the Dialog API, the Popover API, and more. We’ll look at the right time to use each one depending on your needs. Modal or non-modal? JavaScript or pure HTML/CSS? Not sure? Don’t worry, we’ll go into all that.

The State of CSS 2024 survey wrapped up and the results are interesting, as always. Even though each section is …

We can apply the concept of fluid typography to almost anything. This way we can have a layout that fluidly changes with the size of its parent container. Few users will ever see the transition, but they will all appreciate the results. Honestly, they will.

Can we recreate a JavaScript library for scrolling animations with a modern CSS approach using CSS Scroll-Driven Animations? Yes. Yes, we can.

The results from this year’s survey are fairly fresh off the presses. We took a little time to sit with them and jot down some things we noticed and found interesting.

What are tooltips, exactly? There’s two kinds and the one you use has implications on the user experience, as Zell illustrates in this explainer on best practices.

Dark mode interfaces have matured a lot in the past few years. We all know the “traditional” approach using media queries but in this article, Sara Joy demonstrates modern CSS features that make respecting user color scheme preferences pretty darn easy.

Imagine a scenario where you need to split a layout in half. Basically two equal height columns are needed inside of a container. Each side takes up exactly half of the container. Like many things in CSS, there are a number of ways to go about this.

The CSS text-wrap property is (rightfully) widely assumed to be used strictly for text elements. But Terrence Eden posted an article on his blog that shows how it can also be used to balance the way other types of elements wrap, including icons.

Pop quiz! What’s the difference between a Popover element and a Dialog element? The answer is not all that clear and is widely misunderstood, but Zell has a clear way to explain it so that you know which element to reach for in your work.

There’s a lot of math behind fluid typography. CSS does make the math a lot easier these days, but even …

I’m utterly behind in learning about scroll-driven animations apart from the “reading progress bar” experiments all over CodePen. Well, I’m …

Change can certainly be scary whenever a beloved, independent software library becomes a part of a larger organization. I’m feeling …

I totally get the goal here: make CSS more modular and scalable in WordPress. Put all your global WordPress theme …