CSS

Sculpt dynamic interfaces, stretch your imagination, and play with these 22 powerful new CSS features that landed in Chrome this year.

CSS Wrapped 2025 is out! We’re entering a world where CSS can increasingly handle logic, state, and complex interactions once reserved for JavaScript. Here is an unpacking of the standout highlights and how they connect to the bigger evolution of modern CSS.

Conditional logic is a familiar concept to anyone who has written a programming language. Languages like JavaScript or Python use if/else statements to evaluate expressions and execute different blocks of code depending on whether the condition is true or false.

`light-dark()` and `prefers-color-scheme` treat the defined `color-scheme` values differently.

Being able to use the range syntax with container style queries — which we can do starting with Chrome 142 — means that we can compare literal numeric values as well as numeric values tokenized by custom properties or the attr() function.

How to adjust perceived font weight in dark mode without layout shift

Using grid lines is a flexible and powerful way to place your elements on a grid, but, when looking at the code, it might be a bit hard to visualize.

Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree, so that deeply-nested elements can participate in the same grid layout. At first glance, I thought this would be a helpful convenience, but it turns out that it’s so much more. Subgrid unlocks exciting new layout possibilities, stuff we couldn’t do until now. ✨

CSS Masonry is almost here! Patrick Brosset takes a deep dive into what this long-awaited feature means for web developers and how you could make use of it in your own work.

Combining finest craftsmanship with elegant design to ship innovative digital experiences.

There are a number of things that can rain on your sticky parade. Maybe it's time to actually understand why.

From personal project to industry standard Introduction added in 2025 When introduced Oklab in 2020, I never expected it to reach as far as...

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.

The web just got a lot more colorful! 🎉

Building a typical section design with modern CSS.

Whether you've got a firm grasp on modern CSS colour capabilities, or you're thinking 'I struggle to understand why I should use modern CSS colours at all', then the first part of this article series, by Kevin Powell, is for you.

If you thought 2024 was packed with amazing new CSS, well, you're right. But so is 2025 and it keeps looking bright. Check out our list of the best stuff with easy-to-reference examples.

There are a ton more @media queries than

A very long treatise on why text backplates were a bad idea. Most of the time.

An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.

Random functions in programming languages are amazing.

Like container queries; but for stuck, snapped, and overflowing queries.

Learn about the new CSS if function, which enables a cleaner developer interface for dynamic styles like style queries and media queries.

A row of logos that animate forever perfectly and don't have any duplicated HTML or JavaScript at all is quite a trick. Thanks modern CSS!

scroll-target-group is a new CSS feature that lets you create scroll-spy table of contents with basically 2 lines of CSS.

Explore how the if() function works, see practical examples, and compare it to existing CSS conditional techniques.

Taking another look at Time.com hero section. Can we do better?

Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is.

The whole point of auto-fit and auto-fill is that you aren't saying how many columns to use. But if you knew how many the browser chose, you can make nice design decisions.

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