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CSS Wrapped 2025
9 December 2025 @ 3:52 pm
The Chrome Dev Team recaps the new CSS features that shipped in Google Chrome this past year in one amazingly designed webpage. They cover new functionality for creating more customizable components, next-gen interactions, and optimizing ergonomics.
We’ve …
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Fit width text in 1 line of CSS
9 December 2025 @ 3:00 pm
The Chrome team recently prototyped a working solution for fitting text to the width of a container in CSS using a text-grow property.
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That Time I Tried Explaining HTML and CSS to My 5-Year Old Niece
8 December 2025 @ 2:45 pm
I would like to tell you what I learned from a five-year old child about HTML and CSS. It’s funny how explaining something you do almost naturally teaches you about yourself and what you take for granted.
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HTML Web Components Proposal From 1998
5 December 2025 @ 6:16 pm
It's easy to think of HTML Web Components as a recent feature, but it has roots that go all the way back to 1998.
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Getting Creative With “The Measure”
4 December 2025 @ 2:04 pm
A good measure makes reading text comfortable, while a bad one makes it more difficult. So, rather than allowing layout to dictate the measure, doesn’t it make more sense for the measure to inform layout decisions?
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Scrollytelling on Steroids With Scroll-State Queries
2 December 2025 @ 4:47 pm
Unconvinced of the value of scrollytelling? Alright, skeptic, let’s first warm up with some common use cases for scroll-based styling.
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Prevent a page from scrolling while a dialog is open
1 December 2025 @ 5:25 pm
Bramus:
Chrome 144 features a small change to overscroll-behavior: it now also works on non-scrollable scroll containers. While this change might seem trivial, it fixes an issue developers have been dealing with for ages: prevent a page from
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On Inheriting and Sharing Property Values
24 November 2025 @ 2:22 pm
There are many ways to share properties, but what would it look like to inherit and use any parent property value on a child?
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Sketch: A guided tour of Copenhagen
21 November 2025 @ 6:53 pm
Sketch probably didn't "have" to redesign its UI to line up with macOS Tahoe, but a big part of its appeal is the fact that it feels like it totally belongs to the Mac.
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Should We Even Have :closed?
20 November 2025 @ 3:10 pm
Is there really a difference between using :not(:open) and :closed? As always, it depends. Sunkanmi Fafowora explains why :closed is currently not a thing.
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