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Just before we wrapped up 2025, I saw this proposal for :near(), a pseudo-class that would match if the pointer were to go near the element. By how much? Well, that would depend on the value of the <length> argument provided. Thomas Walichiewicz, who proposed :near(), suggests that it works Read more…
Here’s a really quick tip. You can think of Tailwind utilities as components — because you can literally make a card “component” out of Tailwind utilities. @utility card { border: 1px solid black; padding: 1rlh; } <div class=”card”> … </div> This blurs the line between “Components” and “Utilities” so we Read more…
Interop 2026 is formally a thing. So, you know all of those wild, new CSS features we’re always poking at but always putting under a “lack of browser support” caveat? The Big Three — Blink (Chrome/Edge), WebKit (Safari), and Mozilla (Firefox) — are working together to bring full and consistent Read more…
Confession time: I’ve read about the performance benefits of scroll-timeline(), but when I see an impressive JavaScript scrollytelling site like this one, it makes me question if the performance of old-school, main-thread scrollytelling is all that bad. The other shoe drops when the creators of that site admit they “ran Read more…
This issue of What’s !important is dedicated to our friends in the UK (aka me), 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 Read more…
In the previous article, we built the classic hexagon grid. It was a responsive implementation without the use of media queries. The challenge was to improve a five-year old approach using modern CSS. Support is limited to Chrome only because this technique uses recently released features, including corner-shape, sibling-index(), and Read more…
You have an element with a configurable background color, and you’d like to calculate whether the foreground text should be light or dark. Seems easy enough, especially knowing how mindful we ought to be with accessibility. There have been a few drafts of a specification function for this functionality, most Read more…
Speaking of charts… When was the last time you had to use a pie chart? If you are one of those people who have to give presentations right and left, then congratulations! You are both in my personal hell… and also surrounded by pie charts. Luckily, I think I haven’t Read more…
New CSS features can sometimes make it easier and more efficient to code designs we already knew how to create. This efficiency could stem from reduced code or hacks, or improved readability due to the new features. In that spirit, let’s revamp what’s under the hood of a bar chart. Read more…
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. Maintaining video state across different pages using view transitions Chris Coyier Read more…
