Last time, we discussed that, sadly, according to the State of CSS 2025 survey, trigonometric functions are deemed the "Most Hated" CSS feature.

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

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

Being able to use the range syntax with container style queries — which we can do starting with Chrome 142 — means that we can compare literal numeric values as well as numeric values tokenized by custom properties or the attr() function.

The extremely new framework that caught lots of attention will continue as a personal project.

If we have a ratio that represents the sine, cosine or tangent of an angle, how can we get the original angle? This is where inverse trigonometric functions come in!

Is there really a difference between using :not(:open) and :closed? As always, it depends. Sunkanmi Fafowora explains why :closed is currently not a thing.

Sketch probably didn't "have" to redesign its UI to line up with macOS Tahoe, but a big part of its appeal is the fact that it feels like it totally belongs to the Mac.

There are many ways to share properties, but what would it look like to inherit and use any parent property value on a child?

Bramus:

Unconvinced of the value of scrollytelling? Alright, skeptic, let’s first warm up with some common use cases for scroll-based styling.

A good measure makes reading text comfortable, while a bad one makes it more difficult. So, rather than allowing layout to dictate the measure, doesn’t it make more sense for the measure to inform layout decisions?

It's easy to think of HTML Web Components as a recent feature, but it has roots that go all the way back to 1998.

I would like to tell you what I learned from a five-year old child about HTML and CSS. It’s funny how explaining something you do almost naturally teaches you about yourself and what you take for granted.

The Chrome team recently prototyped a working solution for fitting text to the width of a container in CSS using a text-grow property.

It’s not that hard to do! Preethi shows you how it's really the same old animation you’re used to writing in CSS, only applied on a view timeline instead of a normal timeline.

How far can we really go with container queries? There are dozens of media queries now, so what if there were dozens of container queries as well? What could we use them for?

A list of rounded images that slightly overlap each other is a classic web design pattern. The main idea is not complex, but the new thing is the responsive part. that dynamically adjusts the overlap between the images so they fit inside the container.

Andy Clarke with a brand-new resource. It generates the sort of fun typography that Andy commonly uses in his own work that's geared towards cartoon headings.

The best CSS news from around the web from the last two weeks. In this edition: advent calendars, CSS Wrapped 2025, and the latest Web Platform Updates.