So, how can you take dialogue box design beyond the generic look of frameworks and templates? How can you style them to reflect a brand’s visual identity and help to tell its stories? Here’s how I do it in CSS using ::backdrop, backdrop-filter, and animations.

The contrast-color() function doesn’t check color contrast, but rather it outright resolves to either black or white (whichever one contrasts the most with your chosen color). Safari Technology Preview recently implemented it and we explore its possible uses…

The State of CSS 2025 Survey dropped a few days ago, and besides anticipating the results, it's exciting to see a lot of the new things shipped to CSS reflected in the questions.

This is the third article in a series about the CSS shape() function. We've covered drawing lines and arcs in previous articles and, this time, we look specifically at the curve command and how to use it for drawing complex shapes.

The HTML popover attribute transforms elements into top-layer elements that can be opened and closed with a button or JavaScript. Popovers can be dismissed a number of ways, but there is no option to auto-close them. Preethi has a technique you can use.

We put it to the test and it turns out Sass can replace JavaScript, at least when it comes to low-level logic and puzzle behavior. With nothing but maps, mixins, functions, and a whole lot of math, we managed to bring our Tangram puzzle to life, no JavaScript…

ResizeObserver, MutationObserver, and IntersectionObserver enhance performance over their predecessors. Zell discusses their API similarities, usage steps, refactoring strategies, and advantages with practical examples.

How do you stay informed of new CSS features when the language evolves quickly and information is spread all around the web? Sacha Greif has some tips from his work running an annual survey focused on new CSS features.

An introduction to "Color spaces", "Color models", "Color gamuts," and basically all of the "Color somethings" in CSS.

Zell discusses refactoring the Resize, Mutation, and Intersection Observer APIs for easier usage, demonstrating how to implement callback and event listener patterns, while highlighting available options and methods.

The CSS if() function was recently implemented in Chrome 137, making it the first instance where we have it supported by a mainstream browser. Let's poke at it a bit at a very high level.

The CSS if() function enables us to use values conditionally, but what exactly does if() do? Let's look at a possible real-world use case.

KelpUI is new library that Chris Ferdinandi is developing, designed to leverage newer CSS features and Web Components. I've enjoyed following Chris as he's published an ongoing series of articles detailing his thought process behind the library, getting deep…

Blob, Blob, Blob. What's the most effective way to create blob shapes in CSS? Turns out, as always, there are many. Let's compare them together!

Being the bad boy I am, I don't take Tailwind's default approach to cascade layers as the "best" one. Over a year experimenting with Tailwind and vanilla CSS, I've come across what I believe is a better solution.

Styling the space between layout items — the gap — has typically required some clever workarounds. But a new CSS feature changes all that with just a few simple CSS properties that make it easy, yet also flexible, to display styled separators between your…

The shape() function's close and move commands may not be ones you reach for often, but are incredibly useful for certain shapes.

I was playing around with scroll-driven animations, just searching for all sorts of random things you could do. That’s when I came up with the idea to animate main headings and, using scroll-driven animations, change the headings based on the user’s scroll…

Layout. It's one of those easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master things, like they say about playing bass. Not because it's innately difficult to, say, place two

The many ways to juggle line length when working with text... including two proposed properties that could make it easier in the future.