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Styling the space between layout items — the gap — has typically required some clever workarounds. But a new CSS feature changes all that with just a few simple CSS properties that make it easy, yet also flexible, to display styled separators between your layout items.

Being the bad boy I am, I don’t take Tailwind’s default approach to cascade layers as the “best” one. Over a year experimenting with Tailwind and vanilla CSS, I’ve come across what I believe is a better solution.

An early preview of Chrome 139 includes six new CSS features, including the first hint of custom functions.

Blob, Blob, Blob. What’s the most effective way to create blob shapes in CSS? Turns out, as always, there are many. Let’s compare them together!

KelpUI is new library that Chris Ferdinandi is developing, designed to leverage newer CSS features and Web Components. I’ve enjoyed following Chris as he’s published an ongoing series of articles detailing his thought process behind the library, getting deep into his approach. You really get a clear picture of his strategy and I love it.

The CSS if() function enables us to use values conditionally, but what exactly does if() do? Let’s look at a possible real-world use case.

The CSS if() function was recently implemented in Chrome 137, making it the first instance where we have it supported by a mainstream browser. Let’s poke at it a bit at a very high level.

Zell discusses refactoring the Resize, Mutation, and Intersection Observer APIs for easier usage, demonstrating how to implement callback and event listener patterns, while highlighting available options and methods.

An introduction to “Color spaces”, “Color models”, “Color gamuts,” and basically all of the “Color somethings” in CSS.

CSS has a number of functions that can be used to set, translate, and manipulate colors. Learn what they are and how they are used with a bunch of examples to get you started.

A freshly updated two-day workshop on developing games with CSS by Kevin Powell and Amit Sheen is now available (and […]

How do you stay informed of new CSS features when the language evolves quickly and information is spread all around the web? Sacha Greif has some tips from his work running an annual survey focused on new CSS features.