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New Sep 16, 2024
Limitation Breeds Creativity: A Study in Composition with Custom Properties
It’s been a little while since I’ve played around with making creative stuff with CSS just for fun. My trip to State of the Browser conference at the weekend reminded me why I l...
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New Sep 11, 2024
Logical Properties in Size Queries
I came across a post from Elad Shechter lamenting not being able to use logical properties in media queries. As he correctly notes, the following won’t work: @media (max-inline-size: 1000px) {...
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New Aug 30, 2024
The Problem With Surveys (and Why You Should Take This One)
If you’re a regular user of CSS (and hey, if you’re reading this you probably are) you should definitely complete the State of CSS survey, an annual survey of CSS features. Registering your opinion o...
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New Jul 18, 2024
Styling Tables the Modern CSS Way
In this article for Andy Bell’s blog Piccalilli, we explore something I’ve been consumed with styling a lot recently: data tables. Not to be confused with using tables for layout (as in the bad ol...
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New Jul 18, 2024
Everybody’s Free (to Write Websites)
If anybody needs some free advice on how to build websites, Sara Joy has got it absolutely nailed. (With supporting voiceover from Keenan, and an accompanying video from Robb Knight.) The ind...
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Jun 20, 2024
Feedback
Hearing you’re doing a good job matters. Like anyone, there have been plenty of times when I’ve felt disinvested from a job, when I’ve lacked motivation or felt disconnected. There are lots of re...
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Jun 18, 2024
Modern CSS Layout is Awesome: Talking and Thinking About CSS Layout
I recently gave a CSS layout talk at Pixel Pioneers conference in my (sort of) home city of Bristol. I’ve spoken about CSS layout quite a bit over the years, but I feel like there’s always a lot to t...
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Jun 12, 2024
Another Anchor Positioning Demo: Multiple Anchors
Here’s a new demo where we’re positioning article references for a body of text relative to two different anchors for the block and inline axes. Each reference is positioned so that it aligns ve...
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May 27, 2024
Progressively Enhanced Popover Toggletips
The CSS Anchor Positioning specification enables us to position elements relative to an anchor, wherever they are in our web page. As I wrote recently, one thing...
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May 24, 2024
Perspective
View from the top of Mount Snowdon (Y Wyddfa) in Eryri National Park This week I climbed a mountain. There are some things that make me care not one tiny bit about web develop...