I love the fact that CSS is finally reclaiming control over visual interactions, taking charge of the styling, the animation, and the accessibility exactly as it should. Today, native browser capabilities allow us to move the heavy lifting away from Read more…
I’ve said one and meant another, and I’ve used one when I needed another. Please bear with me as I note the high-level similarities and differences between scroll-driven animations, scroll-triggered animations, container query scroll states, and view transitions for my Read more…
In the previous article, I spoke about the why and how to use a Markdown component in Astro. Here, we’re going to expand on that and help you use Markdown everywhere — regardless of the framework you use. So, this Read more…
What’s !important #12 talks about the old (testing in Safari when you don’t have Safari), the new (::checkmark), the in-between (anchor positioning but with HTML), and more. Buckle up! Testing in Safari when you don’t have Safari Source: Frontend Masters Read more…
Some text effects are relatively hard to pull in CSS, the main reason being we are unable to target individual characters (something many of us want in the form of ::nth-letter(), although we have basis for it with ::first-letter that Read more…
This isn’t coming out of nowhere: My apathy levels for the industry are absolutely sky high and I don’t even have a dickhead boss making me hit token targets — Andy Bell (@bell.bz) 2026-05-19T18:23:42.034Z More and more people I deeply Read more…
In Part 1, we covered the gotchas that bite you first: the deprecated meta tag that silently does nothing, the 4-second timeout that kills transitions without telling you, the image distortion that turns every aspect ratio change into silly putty, Read more…
What? Another article about centering?! But all we have to do is use display: flex | grid, then align-items: center. No, it’s align-content… wait… I think it’s justify-content. Well, let’s use margin: auto, this one works all the time, right? Read more…
Let’s play a quick game: I’ll show a graph and try to guess what it’s about. Source: Data Stack Exchange No, it isn’t a crypto coin crashing a few hours after being minted. And not, it is also not an oscillatory/wavy graph Read more…
I wasted an entire Saturday on this. Not a lazy Saturday either, but one of those rare, carved-out, “I’m finally going to build that thing” Saturdays. I’d seen Jake Archibald’s demos. I’d watched the Chrome Dev Summit talk. I knew Read more…
