What’s !important #1: Advent Calendars, CSS Wrapped, Web Platform Updates, and More
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What’s !important #1: Advent Calendars, CSS Wrapped, Web Platform Updates, and More | CSS-Tricks
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.
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Responsive List of Avatars Using Modern CSS (Part 2)
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Responsive List of Avatars Using Modern CSS (Part 2) | CSS-Tricks
In this article, we follow up the work we did to create responsive rows of circular images in a previous article by arranging the images around a circle with a clean hover effect.
text-decoration-inset is Like Padding for Text Decorations
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text-decoration-inset is Like Padding for Text Decorations | CSS-Tricks
The text-decoration-inset property solves a problem that we’ve had since the beginning of the web, which is that text decorations such as underlines extend beyond the first and last characters, resulting in vertical misalignment.
Thank You (2025 Edition)
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Thank You (2025 Edition) | CSS-Tricks
This is the best job I've had in my life and it's only possible because you keep showing up each day to read, learn, share, and discuss all-things-front-end (and a little CSS, of course) with us.
What’s !important #2: Conditional View Transitions, CSS/SVG Text Effects, the Best of CSS Bluesky, and More
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What’s !important #2: Conditional View Transitions, CSS/SVG Text Effects, the Best of CSS Bluesky, and More | CSS-Tricks
2026 is almost upon us. I know we’re all itching to see the clock strike midnight (cue The Final Countdown by Europe), but not without recapping the best CSS-related things that happened over the last two weeks!
Future CSS: :drag (and Maybe ::dragged-image?)
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Future CSS: :drag (and Maybe ::dragged-image?) | CSS-Tricks
Have you ever struggled to style an element while it's being dragged? Sunkanmi explains some ways it could become easier in the future.
Postcard From Web Directions Dev Summit, 2025
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Postcard From Web Directions Dev Summit, 2025 | CSS-Tricks
Lee Meyer recently spoke at Web Directions Summit 2025. This is his experience, not only speaking at the event, but experiencing the event through the lens of anxiety and imposter syndrome.
Playing With CodePen slideVars
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Playing With CodePen slideVars | CSS-Tricks
Super cool new CodePen feature alert! You've probably seen a bunch of "interactive" demos that let you changed values on the fly from a UI panel embedded directly in the demo.
What’s !important #3: Popover Context Menus, @scope, New Web Platform Features, and More
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What’s !important #3: Popover Context Menus, @scope, New Web Platform Features, and More | CSS-Tricks
The developer community hasn’t wasted any time kicking off 2026 with some really great articles, demos, and insights. Firefox 147 and Chrome 144 also shipped, and while they’re not jam-packed with features, the releases are still pretty exciting for what’s…
HTTP Archive 2025 Web Almanac
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I Learned The First Rule of ARIA the Hard Way
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I Learned The First Rule of ARIA the Hard Way | CSS-Tricks
Semantic HTML does a lot more accessibility work than we usually give it credit for already — and ARIA is simple to abuse when we use it both as a shortcut and as a supplement.
Responsive Hexagon Grid Using Modern CSS
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Responsive Hexagon Grid Using Modern CSS | CSS-Tricks
A while back, Temani tacked a repeating grid of hexagon shapes. Well, he's updated it with modern CSS features that result in fewer magic numbers. And it's impressive!
There is No Need to Trap Focus on a Dialog Element
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There is No Need to Trap Focus on a Dialog Element | CSS-Tricks
Accessibility advice around modals have commonly taught us to trap focus within the modal. Upon further research, it seems like we no longer need to trap focus within the <dialog> (even in modal mode).
How to Style the New ::search-text and Other Highlight-y Pseudo-Elements
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Styling ::search-text and Other Highlight-y Pseudo-Elements | CSS-Tricks
The new ::search-text pseudo (Chrome 144) matches are yellow while the current target (::search-text:current) is orange, but ::search-text enables us to change that.
What’s !important #4: Videos & View Transitions, Named Media Queries, How Browsers Work, and More
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What’s !important #4: Videos & View Transitions, Named Media Queries, How Browsers Work, and More | CSS-Tricks
Neither Chrome, Safari, nor Firefox have shipped new features in the last couple of weeks, but fear not because leading this issue of What’s !important is some of the web development industry’s best educators with, frankly, some killer content.