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 works for React, Vue, and Svelte. The entire process hinges 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 Safari is the second most popular web browser, but is 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 gives us access to a box element’s first glyph. But 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 respect and have learned a lot from over the years 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, and the pagereveal/pageswap events that give you hooks into the 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? Despite the countless number of online resources (even CSS-Tricks has 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 made with pure CSS, but a harsher truth. I already 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 cross-document view transitions were real, that you could get those Read more…
If 3D voxel scenes (that you can style), flying focus animations, or new CSS syntaxes sound like your kinda thing, then this issue of What’s !important is definitely for you. Also featuring Polypane, scroll-driven animations, and the latest web platform updates from Chrome 148 and Safari 26.5. Heerich.js for 3D Read more…
CSS math isn’t just about how things look! It can also be used to work out useful numeric information. For instance, you could calculate and show the percentage of tasks completed in a to-do list with CSS, helping users keep track of their progress. No need for script or server Read more…
