The WebKit blog is back with a follow-up on its CSS Masonry coverage. It leans into a direction (display: grid), …

Get advice answering a set of 10 CSS-related questions you likely will encounter in front-end interviews.

Parallax is a pattern in which different elements of a webpage move at varying speeds as the user scrolls, creating a three-dimensional, layered appearance. It once required JavaScript. Now we have scroll-driven animations in CSS, which is free from the main-thread blocking that can plague JavaScript animations.

Today, I want to discuss a couple of patterns for naming color palettes that the community is using, and how I propose we can improve, so we achieve both flexibility and beauty.

Is there a way to build demos that do not break when the services they rely on fail? How can we ensure educational demos stay available for as long as possible?

I went on to figure out how make masonry work today with other browsers. I’m happy to report I’ve found a way — and, bonus! — that support can be provided with only 66 lines of JavaScript.

The ol’ State of HTML Survey is now open and running through August 15.

Do we invent or discover CSS tricks? Lee Meyer discusses how creative limitations, recursive thinking, and unexpected combinations lead to his most interesting ideas.

Brad Frost introduced the “Atomic Design” concept wayyyy back in 2013. He even wrote a book on it. And we …

A CSS Masonry prototype has landed in Chrome and Edge 140. Really leans into the “Just Use Grid” camp. I …

Chrome 139 is experimenting with Open UI’s proposed Interest Invoker API, which would be used to create tooltips, hover menus, hover cards, quick actions, and other types of UIs for showing more information with hover interactions.

Focus trapping is about managing focus within an element, such that focus always stays within it. The whole process sounds simple in theory, but it can quite difficult to build in practice, mostly because of the numerous parts to you got to manage.

A versal letters is a typographic flourish found in illuminated manuscripts and traditional book design, where it adds visual interest and helps guide a reader’s eye to where they should begin.

Gathered notes on Liquid Glass, Apple’s new design language that was introduced at WWDC 2025. These links are a choice selection of posts and resources that I’ve found helpful for understanding the context of Liquid Glass, as well as techniques for recreating it in code.

State of Devs 2025 survey results are out! Sunkanmi Fafowora highlights a few key results about diversity, health, and salaries.

The many ways to juggle line length when working with text… including two proposed properties that could make it easier in the future.

I was playing around with scroll-driven animations, just searching for all sorts of random things you could do. That’s when I came up with the idea to animate main headings and, using scroll-driven animations, change the headings based on the user’s scroll position.

Layout. It’s one of those easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master things, like they say about playing bass. Not because it’s innately difficult to, …

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 …