Tag: WebDev

The old (testing in Safari when you don’t have Safari), the new (::checkmark), the in-between (anchor positioning but with HTML), and more. What’s !important #12: Safari Testing, ::checkmark, HTML Anchor Positioning, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

Until we get something like ::nth-letter, there are still some really cool text effects we can make from existing CSS features, like letter-spacing, ::first-word and ::first-line. Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

This isn’t totally about AI. It’s about technical writing in the age of AI. I have some thoughts on this and I hope it’s helpful to you humans reading. Technical Writing in the AI Age originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

Every view-transition-name on a page must be unique. The problem is that every pseudo-element selector in your CSS targets a specific name, so your animation styles explode into an unmanageable wall of selectors. Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of Elements originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

Despite the countless number of online resources, it’s easy to get confused when trying to center an element. There are documented solutions, but do you really understand why the code you picked works? Let's look at the current state of centering options today in 2026. The State of CSS Centering in 2026 originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

It still hits like a ton of bricks to see the steep decline in Stack Overflow questions. What does that mean about learning in our industry? Stack Overflow: When We Stop Asking originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

This is Part 1 of a two-part series about cross-document view transitions, going over all the gotchas, from ditching the deprecated way to opt into them to a little-known 4-second timeout. Cross-Document View Transitions: The Gotchas Nobody Mentions originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

If 3D voxel scenes (that you can style), flying focus animations, or new CSS syntaxes sound like your kinda thing, then this issue of What’s !important is definitely for you. What’s !important #11: 3D Voxel Scenes, Flying Focus, CSS Syntaxes, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

A clever use of CSS to calculate and display a discounted product price by providing a base price and discount amount, featuring modern CSS features like attr(), mod(), and round(). Computing and Displaying Discounted Prices in CSS originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

The rotateX() function rotates an element around the x-axis in a three-dimensional space rotateX() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.