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The What If Machine: Bringing the “Iffy” Future of CSS into the Present

Written by: Lee Meyer

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.

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Handwriting an SVG Heart, With Our Hearts

Written by: Ryan Trimble

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.

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Scroll Driven Animations Notebook

Written by: Geoff Graham

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

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Quick Hit #35

Written by: Geoff Graham

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

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Typecasting and Viewport Transitions in CSS With tan(atan2())

Written by: Juan Diego Rodríguez

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

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Organizing Design System Component Patterns With CSS Cascade Layers

Written by: Ryan Trimble

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.

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Make Any File a Template Using This Hidden macOS Tool

Written by: Geoff Graham

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.

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Container query units: cqi and cqb

Written by: Geoff Graham

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.

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Baseline Status in a WordPress Block

Written by: Geoff Graham

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.

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Compiling CSS With Vite and Lightning CSS

Written by: Ryan Trimble

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.

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Chrome 133 Goodies

Written by: Geoff Graham

Did you see the release notes for Chrome 133? It’s currently in beta, but the Chrome team has been publishing a slew of new articles with pretty incredible demos that are tough to ignore. I figured I’d round those up in one place.

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Keeping the page interactive while a View Transition is running

Written by: Geoff Graham

When using View Transitions you’ll notice the page becomes unresponsive to clicks while a View Transition is running. […] This […]

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