CSS

I’ve had people ask me if “nested grids” are essentially just like nested tables and therefore a bad thing. I explain why that is not the case.

Last year, Rachel Andrew wrote “[Take A New Look At CSS Shapes](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/09/css-shapes/)” where she reintroduced readers to the basics of using CSS Shapes. In this new tutorial, Andy Clarke expands on the topic of “[Art Direction for the Web](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/printed-books/art-direction-for-the-web/)” with CSS Shapes to create exciting and inspired new design ideas.

After several years of basically ignoring it, I decided recently that it was time for a refresh of my personal site . The previous…

Painting an unstyled page, and then repainting it once styles are parsed would be bad user experience. For this reason, CSS is render blocking, unless the browser knows the CSS is not currently needed. The browser can paint the page once it has downloaded the CSS and built the CSS object model. Browsers follow a specific rendering path: paint only occurs after layout, which occurs after the render tree is created, with requires both the DOM and the CSSOM trees. To optimize the CSSOM construction, remove unnecessary styles, minify, compress and cache it, and split CSS not required at page lo...

CSS debugging tool with an unpronounceable name. Contribute to lucagez/Debucsser development by creating an account on GitHub.

A lightning talk for the W3C AC Meeting. This is a somewhat biased look at new things in CSS - biased in terms of these being things that mostly have some implementation. Also in terms of these being things I know that authors are especially interested in right now.

We talk a lot about Flexbox and CSS Grid Layout, but these layout methods are essentially values of the CSS `display` property, a workhorse of a property that doesn’t get a lot of attention. Rachel Andrew takes a better look in a short series.

A little while back, I was in the process of adding focus styles to An Event Apart’s web site. Part of that was applying different focus effects in

Create compelling grid patterns by harnessing specificity.

This post is in no way a criticism of anybody I’ve ever worked with, it is only a quick list of important things I’ve learnt about CSS…

Is can be quite a challenge to align things with CSS. Rachel Andrew takes a look.

Automatic hyphenation on the web has been possible since 2011 and is now broadly supported. There is however far more control available to designers than just turning on hyphens.

CSS Grid is wonderful for building multi-column layouts, but if you have one less item in your grid than you expected, it will look off balance. I'll show you how to center the last row.

The website of Hidde de Vries, freelance front-end developer.

What problems will the new aspect ratio unit solve? A look at the design of a new CSS feature.

CSS Grid is fun to use but hard to learn. Here are three tips to help you understand and leverage the Grid spec.

WWhen inspecting most other grids in DevTools, you’ll notice that column widths are dependent on their parent element. This article will help you understand how to overcome these limitations using CSS variables — and how you can start building with Container Units.

What is fragmentation, why might you want to use it, and what is the current state of browser support? Rachel Andrew has the answers.

Setting an icon's width and height allows you to set it's contextual size with font-size, which can be very handy if you've got a mix of icon fonts and...

CSS Grid Layout is one of the most exciting new CSS specifications but it also creates new dangers regarding accessibility and UX.

The shortcomings of position: sticky; when working with overflow.

CSS has a neat feature that allows us to test if the browser supports a particular property or property:value combination before applying a block of

Documentation & Guides: CSS Shapes - MDN Overview of CSS Shapes - MDN -MDN shape-image-threshold -MDN shape-margin - MDN shape-outside - MDN CSS Shapes Module Level 1...

Not only has CSS Grid reshaped the way we think and build layouts for the web, but it has also contributed to writing more resilient code, replacing

CSS is changing fast. In this talk I'll be covering some of the things we can already use as well as things just recently discussed at the CSS Working Group. In addition I talk about how things become part of CSS, and how everyone can get involved.