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The View Transitions API is more a set of features than it is about any one particular thing. And it gets complex fast. But in this post, we’ll cover a couple ways to dip your toes into the waters without having to dive in head-first.

I know, super niche, but it could be any loop, really. The challenge is having multiple tooltips on the same page that make use of the Popover API for toggling goodness and CSS Anchor Positioning for attaching a tooltip to its respective anchor element.

My thesis for today’s article offers further reassurance that inline conditionals are probably not the harbinger of the end of civilization: I reckon we can achieve the same functionality right now with style queries, which are gaining pretty good browser support.

A while back on CSS-Tricks, we shared several ways to draw hearts, and the response was dreamy. Now, to show my love, I wanted to do something personal, something crafty, something with a mild amount of effort.

Adam’s such a mad scientist with CSS. He’s been putting together a series of “notebooks” that make it easy for […]

The speaker list for CSS Day 2025 is lookin’ mighty fine, tell you what. Event is scheduled June 5-6 and […]

We’ve been able to get the length of the viewport in CSS since… checks notes… 2013! Surprisingly, that was more than a […]

I enjoy organizing code and find cascade layers a fantastic way to organize code explicitly as the cascade looks at it. The neat part is, that as much as it helps with “top-level” organization, cascade layers can be nested, which allows us to author more precise styles based on the cascade and inheritance.

Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file’s parent application to open a copy of it by default, ensuring that the original file remains unedited.

A little gem from Kevin Powell’s “HTML & CSS Tip of the Week” website, reminding us that using container queries opens up container query units for sizing things based on the size of the queried container.

The steps for how I took the Baseline Status web component and made it into a WordPress block that can be used on any page of post.

Are partials the only thing keeping you writing CSS in Sass? With a little configuration, it’s possible to compile partial CSS files without a Sass dependency. Ryan Trimble has the details.