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The CSS if() function was recently implemented in Chrome 137, making it the first instance where we have it supported by a mainstream browser. Let's poke at ...
CSS has a number of functions that can be used to set, translate, and manipulate colors. Learn what they are and how they are used with a bunch of examples t...
The CSS if() function enables us to use values conditionally, but what exactly does if() do? Let's look at a possible real-world use case.
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Blob, Blob, Blob. What's the most effective way to create blob shapes in CSS? Turns out, as always, there are many. Let's compare them together!
KelpUI is new library that Chris Ferdinandi is developing, designed to leverage newer CSS features and Web Components. I've enjoyed following Chris as he's p...
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An early preview of Chrome 139 includes six new CSS features, including the first hint of custom functions.
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Styling the space between layout items — the gap — has typically required some clever workarounds. But a new CSS feature changes all that with just a few sim...
Read an updated article with an approach that uses modern CSS features.
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This is the second part of a series that dives deep into the CSS shape() command, continuing with a more detailed look at the arc command.
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This is the third article in a series about the CSS shape() function. We've covered drawing lines and arcs in previous articles and, this time, we look speci...
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Magazine on CSS, JavaScript, front-end, accessibility, UX and design. For developers, designers and front-end engineers.
Magazine on CSS, JavaScript, front-end, accessibility, UX and design. For developers, designers and front-end engineers.
This is the first part of a series that dives deep into the shape function, starting with shapes that use lines and arcs.
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Design is about pacing and feelings as much as pixels and patterns. Alan Cohen explores Emotion in Flow and Emotion in Conflict, showing how anime like Dan D...
The shape() function's close and move commands may not be ones you reach for often, but are incredibly useful for certain shapes.
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In which I go over many of the important parts of a workshop I did for a small room of folks in Honolulu, Hawaii. Includes the Photoshop file we worked from ...
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Every web designer, whether freelanced or employed, should have a reference literature that accompanies him or her throughout their professional routine. In ...
I thought my trip to New Zealand for Webstock warranted a special workshop. In honor of their unique national bird, I created a little one-pager website The
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Layout. It's one of those easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master things, like they say about playing bass. Not because it's innately difficult to, say, place two
If you need support when it comes to the business aspects of the web industry, then these eBooks will be a treasure chest for you. Learn to adapt your busine...
I was playing around with scroll-driven animations, just searching for all sorts of random things you could do. That’s when I came up with the idea to animat...
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The many ways to juggle line length when working with text... including two proposed properties that could make it easier in the future.
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Zell discusses refactoring the Resize, Mutation, and Intersection Observer APIs for easier usage, demonstrating how to implement callback and event listener ...
Design is about pacing and feelings as much as pixels and patterns. Alan Cohen explores Emotion in Flow and Emotion in Conflict, showing how anime like Dan D...
State of Devs 2025 survey results are out! Sunkanmi Fafowora highlights a few key results about diversity, health, and salaries.
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Gathered notes on Liquid Glass, Apple’s new design language that was introduced at WWDC 2025. These links are a choice selection of posts and resources that ...
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A versal letters is a typographic flourish found in illuminated manuscripts and traditional book design, where it adds visual interest and helps guide a read...
Being the bad boy I am, I don't take Tailwind's default approach to cascade layers as the "best" one. Over a year experimenting with Tailwind and vanilla CSS...
Focus trapping is about managing focus within an element, such that focus always stays within it. The whole process sounds simple in theory, but it can quite...
Chrome 139 is experimenting with Open UI’s proposed Interest Invoker API, which would be used to create tooltips, hover menus, hover cards, quick actions, an...
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