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Quickly calculate any CSS selector specificity score along with explanations. With full support for complex CSS selectors.

CSS Container queries bring media queries closer to the target elements themselves and enables them to adapt to virtually any given container or layout. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS container query basics and how to use them today with progressive enhancement or polyfills.

Today we’re going to take a quick look at a few special CSS keywords you can use on any CSS property: inherit, initial, revert, and unset. Also, we will ask where and when to use them to the greatest effect,...

What makes relational selector one of the most requested features and how are we, as developers, working around not having it? In this article, we’re going to check the early spec of the :has selector, and see how it should improve the CSS workflow once it’s released.

It wasn't long ago when I looked at sticky headers and footers in HTML s in the blog post A table with both a sticky header and a sticky

This article covers CSS-related techniques for optimizing Web Vitals.

These seemingly small additions to CSS selector syntax are going to have a big impact.

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At long last, container queries might finally become reality! And responsive design just turned eleven! My goodness!

A prototype of the long-awaited CSS container queries has landed in Chrome Canary and is available for experimentation. Let’s look at what problem is being solved, learn how container queries work, and see how they compare with and complement existing CSS features for layout.

User-preference based media features, container queries, and media queries for new screen types, such as foldable screens, will enable us to usehr in a new era of responsive web design.

If you follow new developments in CSS, you’ve likely heard of the impending arrival of container queries. We’re going to look at the basics here, but if

This week we’ll take a look at the new aspect-ratio declaration and its use. Una Kravets wrote the introductory article, but there are some additional technical points to be made. I also wrote a little fallback that you might use...

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Today we will look at fit-content and fit-content(), which are special values for width and grid definitions. It’s ... complicated — not as a concept, but in its practical application....

There are a number of methods that you can use to lay out your web pages and applications. MDN contains a number of in-depth guides to the different methods, and this page provides an overview of them all.

This post highlights a few powerful lines of CSS that do some serious heavy lifting and help you build robust modern layouts.

As developers, when using modern UI libraries and frameworks like React, Vue or Web Components, we often like to write our CSS specifically for a single component. That way we c...

A path forward, with single-axis containment

Learn how to create a shadow effect that inherits some of the colors from the foreground element.

Lists—we’ve all worked with them in one form or another. I’m talking about HTML’s and . Much of the time, because we desire styling

The notes from my talk for An Event Apart last year, covering overflow, multicol, regions, and why this stuff matters.

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Collection of common CSS mistakes, and how to fix them

I saw in the release notes for Safari Technical Preview 122 that it has support for a color-contrast() function in CSS. Safari is first out of the gate

CSS Layout is all about boxes. We know that some boxes are blocks, and others are inline, and we can change the display type of elements by changing the value of the display property. That property holds the key to much more than this, however. It is the foundation on which all layout is built; the core of the inbuilt CSS layout system. Learning Grid Layout, or Flexbox, without understanding Display, leaves you with a wobbly foundation and more questions than answers.

The CSS Working Group Editor’s Draft for [Selectors Level 4](https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/) includes several pseudo-class selectors that already have proposal candidates in most modern browsers. This guide will cover ones that currently have the best support along with examples to demonstrate how you can start using them today!

Everything important and useful to know about CSS Custom Properties. Like that they are often referred to as "CSS Variables" but that's not their real name.

Custom properties in CSS are exceptionally useful, not just for tokenising your CSS, but also for abstracting complexity and interactivity into smaller, easier to manage pieces. This short guide will get you up to speed with how they work and how to use them.