2024 has been one of the greatest years for CSS: cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, anchor positioning, animate to height: auto, and many others. It seems out of touch to ask, but what else do we want from CSS? Well, Read more…
Tooltips are like homemade food: everyone uses them and everyone has their own recipe to make them. If you don’t remember a particular recipe, you will search for one, follow it, and go on with your day. This “many ways Read more…
Multi-step forms are a good choice when your form is large and has many controls. No one wants to scroll through a super-long form on a mobile device. By grouping controls on a screen-by-screen basis, we can improve the experience Read more…
Superscripts and subscripts are essential elements in academic and scientific content — from citation references to chemical formulas and mathematical expressions. Yet browsers handle these elements with a static approach that can create significant problems: elements become either too small Read more…
The CSS Working Group (CSSWG) meets weekly (or close to it) to discuss and quickly resolve issues from their GitHub that would otherwise be lost in the back-and-forth of forum conversation. While each meeting brings interesting conversation, this past Wednesday Read more…
I had the pleasure of hosting a recent Smashing Magazine workshop on product design, subbing for Vitaly Friedman who usually runs these things. What? A front-ender interviewing really smart people about their processes for user research, documenting requirements, and scaling Read more…
I strongly believe Anchor Positioning will go down as one of the greatest additions to CSS. It may not be as game-changing as Flexbox or Grid, but it does fill a positioning gap that has been missing for decades. As Read more…
Join the Chrome DevRel team and a skateboarding Chrome Dino on a journey through the latest CSS launched for Chrome and the web platform in 2024, highlighting 17 new features That breaks down (approximately) as: Components Interactions Developer experience Plus: ::backdrop Read more…
Anselm Hannemann on the intersection between frameworks and learning the basics: Nowadays people can write great React and TypeScript code. Most of the time a component library like MUI, Tailwind and others are used for styling. However, nearly no one Read more…
Some animation can make things feel natural. Too many animations becomes distracting. Some line spacing can help legibility. Too much hurts it. Some alt text is contextual. Too much alt text is noise. Some padding feels comfy. Too much padding Read more…
