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The Lost CSS Tricks of Cohost.org

Written by: Blackle Mori

In this post, Blackle Mori shows you a few of the hacks found while trying to push the limits of Cohost’s HTML support. Use these if you dare, lest you too get labelled a CSS criminal.

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Quick Hit #44

Written by: Geoff Graham

The CSSWG just released the first public working draft of the specifications for adding gap decorations — you know, like […]

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“Pretty” is in the eye of the beholder

Written by: Geoff Graham

Yay, let’s jump for text-wrap: pretty landing in Safari Technology Preview! But beware that it’s different from how it works in Chromium browsers.

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So, You Want to Give Up CSS Pre- and Post-Processors…

Written by: Zell Liew

There was once upon a time when native CSS lacked many essential features, leaving developers to come up with all sorts of ways to make CSS easier to write over the years.

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Using CSS backdrop-filter for UI Effects

Written by: Preethi

Tips and tricks on utilizing the CSS backdrop-filter property to style user interfaces. You’ll learn how to layer backdrop filters among multiple elements, and integrate them with other CSS graphical effects to create elaborate designs.

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Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors

Written by: Declan Chidlow

Custom cursors with CSS are great, but we can take things to the next level with JavaScript. Using JavaScript, we can transition between cursor states, place dynamic text within the cursor, apply complex animations, and apply filters.

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Quick Hit #43

Written by: Geoff Graham

Browsers are planning to update UA stylesheets for nested <h1> elements. It’s a good idea to make sure your nested […]

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CSS-Tricks Chronicles XLIII

Written by: Geoff Graham

This CSS-Tricks update highlights significant progress in the Almanac, recent podcast appearances, a new CSS counters guide, and the addition of several new authors contributing valuable content.

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Tailwind’s @apply Feature is Better Than it Sounds

Written by: Zell Liew

Most of the time, people showcase Tailwind’s @apply feature with one of Tailwind’s single-property utilities (which changes a single CSS declaration). When showcased this way, @apply doesn’t sound promising at all. So obviously, nobody wants to use it. Personally, I think Tailwind’s @apply feature is better than described.

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Cascading Layouts: A Workshop on Resilient CSS Layouts

Written by: Geoff Graham

If I were starting with CSS today for the very first time, I would first want to spend time understanding […]

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CSS Carousels

Written by: Geoff Graham

Chrome has prototyped these features and released them in Chrome 135. Adam Argyle has a wonderful explainer over at the Chrome Developer blog. Kevin Powell has an equally wonderful video where he follows the explainer. This post is me taking notes from them.

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Feeling Like I Have No Release: A Journey Towards Sane Deployments

Written by: Lee Meyer

Deploying like an idiot comes down to a mismatch between the tools you use to deploy and the reward in complexity reduced versus complexity added.

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