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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.

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.