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A Better API for the Resize Observer
16.6.2025
ResizeObserver, MutationObserver, and IntersectionObserver enhance performance over their predecessors. Zell discusses their API similarities, usage steps, refactoring strategies, and advantages with practical examples.
A Better API for the Resize Observer originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
Breaking Boundaries: Building a Tangram Puzzle With (S)CSS
12.6.2025
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.
Breaking Boundaries:...
Riot Sells $1.58M of Bitfarms Shares as Part of Investment Review
10.6.2025
U.S.-based miner retains over 14% ownership after open market sales
Creating an Auto-Closing Notification With an HTML Popover
9.6.2025
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.
Creating an Auto-Closing Notification With...
Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 3: Curves
6.6.2025
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.
Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 3: Curves originally...
Exploring the CSS contrast-color() Function… a Second Time
5.6.2025
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.
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The State of CSS 2025 Survey is out!
5.6.2025
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.
The State of CSS 2025 Survey is out! originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family....
Getting Creative With HTML Dialog
3.6.2025
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.
Getting Creative With HTML Dialog...
Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 2: More on Arcs
30.5.2025
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.
Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 2: More on Arcs originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get...
What We Know (So Far) About CSS Reading Order
27.5.2025
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,...
Disney's 23 Best And Most Memorable Songs Ever, Ranked
23.5.2025
Disney has enchanted us for decades with its resplendent animation and fantastical stories of princesses, wicked witches, and fire-breathing dragons, but music has always been its most indelible sprinkle of pixie dust. There are songs that move us, make us dance, and help us understand...
Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 1: Lines and Arcs
23.5.2025
This is the first part of a series that dives deep into the shape function, starting with shapes that use lines and arcs.
Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 1: Lines and Arcs originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
Crypto Lender Ledn Goes Full Bitcoin Maxi as It Seeks to Reduce Client Asset Risk
23.5.2025
Ledn said the shift is part of its broader strategy to simplify its product and sharpen its focus around bitcoin
You can style alt text like any other text
22.5.2025
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.
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SVG to CSS Shape Converter
21.5.2025
Shape master Temani Afif has what might be the largest collection of CSS shapes on the planet with all the tools to generate them on the fly. There’s a mix of clever techniques he’s typically used to make those shapes, …
SVG to CSS Shape Converter originally published...
Circle Has Explored Potential $5B Sale to Coinbase or Ripple Instead of IPO: Report
20.5.2025
The stablecoin issuer took part in informal talks over a potential sale from which it was seeking at least $5 billion
A Reader’s Question on Nested Lists
19.5.2025
Answering a reader's question about how to create a complex numbering system with CSS list counters.
A Reader’s Question on Nested Lists originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter
HTML Email Accessibility Report 2025
16.5.2025
Some weekend reading on the heels of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAADM), which took place yesterday. The Email Markup Consortium (EMC) released its 2025 study on the accessibility in HTML emails, and the TL;DR is …
HTML Email Accessibility Report 2025 originally published...
Scroll-Driven Animations Inside a CSS Carousel
15.5.2025
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?
Scroll-Driven Animations Inside a CSS Carousel originally published on CSS-Tricks...
Altcoin Season Could Heat Up in June and Drain Part of Bitcoin’s $2T Market Cap, Analyst Says
15.5.2025
Joao Wedson, CEO of Alphractal, predicts a full-blown alt season in June, with BTC dominance already under pressure