CSS-Trickz! also ready to join Digital Ocean

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

Interop 2026 is officially a thing and there’s plenty of new (and even old) CSS features that we can look forward to being cross-browser compatible and consistent!

Chrome 145 enables % units for letter-spacing and word-spacing as well as overscroll-behavior for all scroll containers, now baseline.

This issue of What’s !important is dedicated to our friends in the UK, who are currently experiencing a very miserable 43-day rain streak. Presenting: the five most interesting things to read about CSS from the last couple of weeks. Plus, the latest features from Chrome 145, and anything else you might’ve missed. TL;DR: lots of content, but also lots of rain.

Chrome 145 finally ships text-justify, which is almost baseline now.

This is the second part of a small two-part series. In this article, we will explore another type of grid: a pyramidal one. We are still working with hexagon shapes, but a different organization of the elements., while exploring other different shapes.

The new contrast-color() function is not fully supported yet. But can we still implement it in a cross-browser friendly way using other new CSS features?

Chrome 145 becomes the first to ship customizable <select>, as well as column-wrap and column-height for better multicol layouts.

Can we make pie chart that’s semantic, with flexible markup, and avoids using a JavaScript library? Here’s how I tackled it.

Una Kravets announces border-shape with a couple of cool demos.

Adam Argyle quickly outlines the upcoming customizable <select>.

CSS-only bar charts are one of those things we’ve tackled a bunch of times in different ways. But how can modern CSS features finally make it not only trivial, but fun?