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2026 is almost upon us. I know we’re all itching to see the clock strike midnight (cue The Final Countdown by Europe), but not without recapping the best CSS-related things that happened over the last two weeks!

Happy new year, from the CSS-Tricks team!

:near(<length>) has been proposed, which would match whenever the pointer is within a specified proximity of the element.

State of HTML 2025 is now live!

Safari 26.2 ships command and commandfor as well as hidden=until-found, which are now supported in all web browsers.

This is the best job I’ve had in my life and it’s only possible because you keep showing up each day to read, learn, share, and discuss all-things-front-end (and a little CSS, of course) with us.

Safari 26.2 ships sibling-index(), sibling-count(), and field-sizing, bringing them close to baseline.

The text-decoration-inset property solves a problem that we’ve had since the beginning of the web, which is that text decorations such as underlines extend beyond the first and last characters, resulting in vertical misalignment.

It’s settled! A new CSS display property keyword called grid-lanes will trigger a masonry layout mode.

Safari 26.2 becomes the first browser to support the anticipated random() function.

Jelte Lagendijk built a Raycast extension for searching CSS-Tricks articles where you simply type and a get a solid set of real-time results.

In this article, we follow up the work we did to create responsive rows of circular images in a previous article by arranging the images around a circle with a clean hover effect.