I’m really interested in this emerging idea that the future of web design is Generative UI Design. We see hints of this already in products, like Figma Sites, that tout being able to create websites on the fly with prompts. Read more…
Over the last few years, there’s been a lot of talk about and experimentation with scroll-driven animations. It’s a very shiny feature for sure, and as soon as it’s supported in Firefox (without a flag), it’ll be baseline. It’s part Read more…
Editor’s note: Mat Marquis and Andy Bell have released JavaScript for Everyone, an online course offered exclusively at Piccalilli. This post is an excerpt from the course taken specifically from a chapter all about JavaScript destructuring. We’re publishing it here Read more…
For this issue of What’s !important, we have a healthy balance of old CSS that you might’ve missed and new CSS that you don’t want to miss. This includes random(), random-item(), folded corners using clip-path, backdrop-filter, font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums, the Popover Read more…
When I talk about layouts, I’m referring to how you place items on a page. The CSS properties that are widely used here include: display — often grid or flex nowadays margin padding width height position top, left, bottom, right Read more…
Web browsers ship new features all the time, but what fun is it if we can’t build silly and fun things with them? In this article, let’s go over a few demos that I’ve made by using the new customizable Read more…
Temani Afif recently did this exercise and I thought I’d build off of it. Some of these are useful. Many of them are not. There’s a bird at the end! html html { /* I mean, duh */ } :root Read more…
Choosing between Popover API and Dialog API is difficult because they seem to do the same job, but they don’t! After a bit lots of research, I discovered that the Popover API and Dialog API are wildly different in terms Read more…
Despite what’s been a sleepy couple of weeks for new Web Platform Features, we have an issue of What’s !important that’s prrrretty jam-packed. The web community had a lot to say, it seems, so fasten your seatbelts! @keyframes animations can Read more…
TL;DR: We can center absolute-positioned elements in three lines of CSS. And it works on all browsers! .element { position: absolute; place-self: center; inset: 0; } Why? Well, that needs a longer answer. In recent years, CSS has brought a Read more…
