Welcome to the first ever What’s !important, a roundup of the best CSS and web development news from the last two weeks. If you’re pressed for time (who isn’t?) or you just can’t stand missing out on anything CSS-related, this is Read more…
Andy Clarke with a brand-new resource. It generates the sort of fun typography that Andy commonly uses in his own work that’s geared towards cartoon headings. There are a number of configurable options for font, color, stroke, letter spacing, and Read more…
A list of rounded images that slightly overlap each other is a classic web design pattern. You are for sure wondering what the novelty we are bringing here is, right? It has been done countless times. You are right. The Read more…
I’ll admit, when container queries first shipped back in 2022, I didn’t really pay attention. I mean, why container size queries when we already have media queries? Why container style queries when custom properties inherit anyway (they don’t work with Read more…
The CSS animation-timeline property accepts a view() function which, in turn, returns a timeline of how much of an element is visible in the part of a scroll container that’s viewable (formally known as a scrollport). In other words, rather Read more…
The Chrome Dev Team recaps the new CSS features that shipped in Google Chrome this past year in one amazingly designed webpage. They cover new functionality for creating more customizable components, next-gen interactions, and optimizing ergonomics. We’ve been tracking many Read more…
From Adam, prototyped in Chrome Canary 145: h1 { text-grow: per-line scale; } Danny discussed this a while back when looking at different approaches for fitting text to a container, spelling out the syntax (text-shrink included) that you can find Read more…
I would like to tell you what I learned from a five-year old child about HTML and CSS. Just when I opened my code editor and browser and began writing basic HTML boilerplate, my niece walked in. She is tiny Read more…
Web components, as imagined in 1998 from a never-adopted specification: Componentization is a powerful paradigm that allows component users to build applications using ‘building blocks’ of functionality without having to implement those building blocks themselves, or necessarily understand how the Read more…
Bramus: Chrome 144 features a small change to overscroll-behavior: it now also works on non-scrollable scroll containers. While this change might seem trivial, it fixes an issue developers have been dealing with for ages: prevent a page from scrolling while a (modal) <dialog> is Read more…
