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Headings: Semantics, Fluidity, and Styling — Oh My!

Written by: Geoff Graham

A few links about headings that I’ve had stored under my top hat.

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Explaining the Accessible Benefits of Using Semantic HTML Elements

Written by: Geoff Graham

Why should you use a semantic <button> instead of a generic <div>? Accessibility, right? By how exactly does it help accessibility?

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The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: tan()

Written by: Juan Diego Rodríguez

Last time, we discussed that, sadly, according to the State of CSS 2025 survey, trigonometric functions are deemed the “Most Hated” […]

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Getting Creative With Small Screens

Written by: Andy Clarke

On mobile, people can lose their sense of context and can’t easily tell where a section begins or ends. Good small-screen design can help orient them using a variety of techniques.

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Pure CSS Tabs With Details, Grid, and Subgrid

Written by: Silvestar Bistrović

Can we use the <details> element as the foundation for a tabbed interface? Why yes, we can!

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CSS Animations That Leverage the Parent-Child Relationship

Written by: Preethi

When we change an element’s intrinsic sizing, its children are affected, too. This is something we can use to our advantage.

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An Introduction to JavaScript Expressions

Written by: Mat Marquis

A thorough but approachable lesson on JavaScript expressions excerpted JavaScript For Everyone, a complete online course offered by our friends at Piccalilli.

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Building a Honeypot Field That Works

Written by: Zell Liew

Honeypots are fields that developers use to prevent spam submissions. They still work in 2025. But you got to set a couple of tricks in place so spambots can’t detect your honeypot field.

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Sequential linear() Animation With N Elements

Written by: Temani Afif

Let’s suppose you have N elements with the same animation that should animate sequentially. Modern CSS makes this easy and it works for any number of items!

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Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve

Written by: Saleh Mubashar

What can CSS Masonry discussions teach us about the development of new CSS features? What is the CSSWG’s role? What influence do browsers have? What can learn from the way past features evolved?

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We Completely Missed width/height: stretch

Written by: Daniel Schwarz

The TL;DR is that stretch does the same thing as declaring 100%, but ignores padding when looking at the available space.

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The thing about contrast-color

Written by: Geoff Graham

One of our favorites, Andy Clarke, on the one thing keeping the CSS contrast-color() function from true glory: For my […]

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