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Long-requested but still underused, CSS custom properties for cascading variables offer revolutionary possibilities for collaboration and code reuse.

Every day, literally thousands of talented, hard-working folks out there gain new insight from their work, come up with brilliant ideas and then share their experience…

In this talk, Rachel will introduce Subgrid alongside use cases, example code, and some thoughts on where we might see Grid heading in the future.

WebKit handles 100vh in a way that differs from other browsers, which can complicate some layouts. But using -webkit-fill-available might be a good enough alternative to get by.

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I’ve always loved exploring how to make semantic, accessible elements aesthetically pleasing. And yes, it is possible. Challenging myself to…

We have had Grid Layout in browsers for two years. Long enough for us to start to find the edges, and discover things we really wish it could do. The biggest missing feature from Level 1 was subgrid, which has become the main feature for Level 2 of the specification. In this talk I’ll introduce subgrid, with use cases, example code and some thoughts on where we might see Grid going in the future.

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This past week has brought a few announcements from browser vendors of some exciting things that might have a big impact on CSS layout in…

CSS Comparison Functions (min(), max(), clamp()) become supported in Firefox on 8 April 2020, which means that they are now supported in all major browsers. ...

A series examining modern CSS solutions to problems Stephanie Eckles (@5t3ph), a seasoned frontend developer, has been solving for 13+ years.

There is a problem I have wrestled with a couple of times, which was frustrating to solve… but can now be easily solved using clamp, which is currently in an Editors Draft of the CSS Values and Units Module Level 4 specification. It is sat alongside similar mathmatical CSS nuggets, such as min and max […]

Like any other programming language, CSS has functions. They can be inserted where you’d place a value, or in some cases, accompanying another value declaration.

Before we come to how to style underlines, we should answer the question: should we underline? In graphic design, underlines are generally seen as

A "product grid" demo using - CSS Grid - Clip Path - Conic Gradient - Lea Verou's CSS conic-gradient() polyfill (https://leaverou.github.io/conic...

CSS Layout has been transformed over the past years. We have you covered with all you need to master this new world. If you want to understand the technical details, or learn how to use new CSS creatively, these guides can help.

A collection of customizable CSS section separators, with the possibility to easily copy the code.

Stumbled across a little layout technique while working on my latest redesign. I think it’s helpful; maybe you’ll think so, too.

I’ve come across people who do not think that CSS is related to internationalisation at all, but if you think about it, internationalisation is more than translating the content on your site into multiple languages and calling it a day.

Create flexible layout components with CSS Grid and math functions to gain more control over the hypothetical instructions we inscribe into our components.

There are lots of ways you can select elements in CSS. The most basic selection is by tag name, like p { }. Almost anything more specific than a tag

Developers are increasingly finding new ways to extend the limits of CSS, proving that there’s more to the language than just style.

Recently, I found out about text-decoration-thickness, an addition to the set of text-decoration- properties that control text features such as underline.

I loved the ingenuity of zine templates, that origami or map-like magic of a single piece of paper fo...

Let's build a literal grid of squares, and we'll put the logos of some magazines centered inside each square. I imagine plenty of you have had to build a

Learning the hard way that CSS, is in fact, a necessary skill.

CSS Grid provides us with a powerful layout system for websites. The CSS-Tricks guide gives you a comprehensive overview of Grid’s properties with layout

CSS Grid lets us create stunning layouts without adding complex markup or JavaScript. In this episode, Rachel Andrew (https://twitter.com/rachelandrew) — a driving force behind Grid‘s spec & adoption! — teaches us how to get started!

Step-by-step tutorial on how to create a rainbow accordion animation in CSS, using only box-shadows-