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What’s !important #6: :heading, border-shape, Truncating Text From the Middle, and More

Written by: Daniel Schwarz

Despite what’s been a sleepy couple of weeks for new Web Platform Features, we have an issue of What’s !important that’s prrrretty jam-packed. The web community had a lot to say, it seems, so fasten your seatbelts!

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Yet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element

Written by: Juan Diego Rodríguez

TL;DR: We can center absolute-positioned elements in three lines of CSS. And it works on all browsers!

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An Exploit … in CSS?!

Written by: Lee Meyer

Read an explanation of the recent CVE-2026-2441 vulnerability that was labeled a “CSS exploit” that “allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.”

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Quick Hit #103

Written by: Daniel Schwarz

Firefox 148 makes shape() available without a flag, aligning with Chrome and Safari.

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A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets

Written by: Declan Chidlow

Browsers don’t just let you bookmark web pages. You can also bookmark JavaScript, allowing you to do so much more than merely save pages.

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Quick Hit #102

Written by: Daniel Schwarz

Bramus very quickly walks us through the new scrolled scroll-state query.

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Loading Smarter: SVG vs. Raster Loaders in Modern Web Design

Written by: Mariana Beldi

Let’s get nuanced in this article and discuss the capabilities of both SVG and raster imaged so that you can make informed decisions in your own work.

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Potentially Coming to a Browser :near() You

Written by: Daniel Schwarz

Danny has several ideas for how we could use :near(), a proposed pseudo-class that detects when the pointer is near an element.

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Quick Hit #101

Written by: Daniel Schwarz

Safari TP 237 becomes the first to trial :heading, a pseudo-class for selecting multiple heading levels at once.

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Distinguishing “Components” and “Utilities” in Tailwind

Written by: Zell Liew

The distinction between “components” and “utilities” seems clear at first glance, but gets a little blurred when working with them in Tailwind.

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Quick Hit #100

Written by: Daniel Schwarz

Interop 2026 is here — find out which features Chrome, Safari, and Firefox have agreed to make consistent across all […]

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Spiral Scrollytelling in CSS With sibling-index()

Written by: Lee Meyer

Lee accepts a challenge: arranging text in a spiral that animates as a vortex on scroll… all in CSS.

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