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Brad Frost is running this new little podcast called Open Up. Folks write in with questions about the “other” side of web design and front-end development — not so much about tools and best practices as it is about … Open Up With Brad Frost, Episode 2 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

The fact that anchor positioning eschews HTML source order is so CSS-y because it's another separation of concerns between content and presentation. Anchor Positioning Just Don’t Care About Source Order originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

In this post, Blackle Mori shows you a few of the hacks found while trying to push the limits of Cohost’s HTML support. Use these if you dare, lest you too get labelled a CSS criminal. The Lost CSS Tricks of Cohost.org originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Yay, let's jump for text-wrap: pretty landing in Safari Technology Preview! But beware that it's different from how it works in Chromium browsers. “Pretty” is in the eye of the beholder originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

There was once upon a time when native CSS lacked many essential features, leaving developers to come up with all sorts of ways to make CSS easier to write over the years. So, You Want to Give Up CSS Pre- and Post-Processors… originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Tips and tricks on utilizing the CSS backdrop-filter property to style user interfaces. You’ll learn how to layer backdrop filters among multiple elements, and integrate them with other CSS graphical effects to create elaborate designs. Using CSS backdrop-filter for UI Effects originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Custom cursors with CSS are great, but we can take things to the next level with JavaScript. Using JavaScript, we can transition between cursor states, place dynamic text within the cursor, apply complex animations, and apply filters. Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

This CSS-Tricks update highlights significant progress in the Almanac, recent podcast appearances, a new CSS counters guide, and the addition of several new authors contributing valuable content. CSS-Tricks Chronicles XLIII originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Most of the time, people showcase Tailwind's @apply feature with one of Tailwind's single-property utilities (which changes a single CSS declaration). When showcased this way, @apply doesn't sound promising at all. So obviously, nobody wants to use it. Personally, I think Tailwind's @apply feature is better than described. Tailwind’s @apply Feature is Better Than it Sounds originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

If I were starting with CSS today for the very first time, I would first want to spend time understanding writing modes because that’s a great place to wrap your head around direction and document flow. But right after that, … Cascading Layouts: A Workshop on Resilient CSS Layouts originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.