CSS-Trickz! also ready to join Digital Ocean

The developer community hasn’t wasted any time kicking off 2026 with some really great articles, demos, and insights. Firefox 147 and Chrome 144 also shipped, and while they’re not jam-packed with features, the releases are still pretty exciting for what’s normally a slow time of year, so without further ado, here’s what’s important from the last couple of weeks (or should I say the first couple of weeks, of 2026?)…

Super cool new CodePen feature alert! You’ve probably seen a bunch of “interactive” demos that let you changed values on the fly from a UI panel embedded directly in the demo.

Firefox 147 ships view transition types and anchor positioning, which are now supported in all browsers.

Death to scroll fade.

Lee Meyer recently spoke at Web Directions Summit 2025. This is his experience, not only speaking at the event, but experiencing the event through the lens of anxiety and imposter syndrome.

ReliCSS helps replace CSS hacks with @supports and modern CSS.

Have you ever struggled to style an element while it’s being dragged? Sunkanmi explains some ways it could become easier in the future.

Chris Coyier swiftly demonstrates how !important works with CSS variables.

A fully-interactive Mario World demo built using HTML and CSS only (requires Chrome, for now).

HTML Document Outline is dead.

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!