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More Easy Light-Dark Mode Switching: light-dark() is about to support images! CSS light-dark() is being extended to support images.

More Easy Light-Dark Mode Switching: light-dark() is about to support images! #CSS www.bram.us/2026/03/19/m...

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There Is No “Wrong” in CSS Wrong CSS doesn't exist — here's why. From backwards-compatibility to platform responsibility, find out why CSS advice is context, not law.

There Is No “Wrong” in #CSS: "Wrong CSS doesn't exist — here's why. From backwards-compatibility to platform responsibility, find out why CSS advice is context, not law." www.sitepoint.com/there-is-no-...

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View Transitions can swoop‽ · March 7, 2026 How to make View Transitions not always a straight line

View Transitions can swoop‽ "But hey, now we can add swoops to a native view transition and we learned a trick that can make motion blur view transitions. That's coo." #CSS nerdy.dev/swoop-there-...

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How to implement an image gallery using Baseline features  |  Articles  |  web.dev Image galleries are a common user interface pattern on the web. Learn how to create one using Baseline features.

How to implement an image gallery using Baseline features: "Image galleries are a common user interface pattern on the web. Learn how to create one using Baseline features." #HTML #CSS web.dev/articles/bas...

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Beyond border-radius: What The CSS corner-shape Property Unlocks For Everyday UI — Smashing Magazine For years, developers have been hacking around the limitations of `border-radius`, using clip-path, SVG masks, and fragile workarounds just to get anything other than round corners. The new…

Beyond border-radius: What The #CSS corner-shape Property Unlocks For Everyday UI: "The new corner-shape property finally opens the door to beveled, scooped, and squircle corners." www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/03/beyo...

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One CSS Property That Makes Numbers Look Instantly Better When you’re working with fonts, especially for displaying numbers, there’s something called proportional spacing that can make a huge difference in how your numbers look when they’re animated.

One #CSS Property That Makes Numbers Look Instantly Better: "When you’re working with fonts, especially for displaying numbers, there’s something called proportional spacing that can make a huge difference in how your numbers look when they’re animated." www.amitmerchant.com/one-css-prop...

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You Don’t Know HTML Tables This is a deep dive into HTML tables that cover its vocabulary & parts, Table Object Model, Cell headers, and the semantic value of table headers and footers

You Don’t Know #HTML Tables: "This is a deep dive into HTML tables that cover its vocabulary and parts, Table Object Model, Cell headers, and the semantic value of table headers and footers." blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/03/05/y...

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The Value of z-index | CSS-Tricks How we look at the stacking order of our projects, how we choose z-index values, and more importantly, the implications of those choices.

The Value of z-index: "How we look at the stacking order of our projects, how we choose z-index values, and more importantly, the implications of those choices." #CSS css-tricks.com/the-value-of...

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Native Random Values in CSS The CSS Working Group has published the Values and Units Module Level 5, which introduces native mechanisms for generating random content using only CSS. This is the tl;dr of a longer article…

Native Random Values in #CSS: "The CSS Working Group has published the Values and Units Module Level 5, which introduces native mechanisms for generating random content using only CSS." alvaromontoro.com/blog/68092/n...

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naming rectangles Here I am again, talking about CSS, and more specifically naming conventions.

Naming Rectangles: "I greatly prefer names that are based upon the standard accessibility roles. It forces me to think more intently about the semantics. Should it be called Dialog or Modal? The correct answer is Dialog, named after the dialog role." #CSS mayank.co/notes/naming...

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Getting Started With The Popover API — Smashing Magazine What happens if you rebuild a single tooltip using the browser’s native model without the aid of a library? The Popover API turns tooltips from something you simulate into something the browser…

Getting Started With The Popover API: "Opening and closing, keyboard interaction, Escape handling, and much of the accessibility now come from the platform itself, not from ad-hoc JavaScript." #a11y www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/03/gett...

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How aria-labelledby really works - Max Design How aria-labelledby works, including naming precedence, multiple references, hidden content, broken IDs, and shadow DOM boundaries.

"How aria-labelledby works, including naming precedence, multiple references, hidden content, broken IDs, and shadow DOM boundaries." #a11y www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/ari...

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Figcaptions versus alt text How does an image’s descriptive (alt) text differ from the caption it would have if it were used in a <figure> element?

Figcaptions versus alt text: "So alt and caption should never be the same. One replaces the image; the other supports it." #a11y www.tempertemper.net/blog/figcapt...

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The Odometer Effect (without JavaScript) We can take a value set in an HTML attribute and use it in CSS, even extracting each individual digit in order to animate separately.

The Odometer Effect (without JavaScript): "We can take a value set in an HTML attribute and use it in #CSS, even extracting each individual digit in order to animate separately." frontendmasters.com/blog/the-odo...

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Your skip link targets may not need tabindex=-1 to work properly - Manuel Matuzovic I'm a frontend developer in Graz, specialized in HTML, accessibility, and CSS layout and architecture.

Your skip link targets may not need tabindex=-1 to work properly: "Firefox was the first browser to fix it in 2013, followed by Internet Explorer, and finally Chrome in 2016. I don't know about Safari, but it was long enough ago that I can't remember anymore." #a11y matuzo.at/blog/2026/sk...

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una.im | Automated accessible text with contrast-color() Let the browser pick the most readable text color for any background with this new CSS function.

Automated accessible text with contrast-color(): "Let the browser pick the most readable text color for any background with this new #CSS function." una.im/contrast-col...

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Anna Filou | Responsive images without layout shift Product/UI Designer based in Athens, working internationally.

Responsive images without layout shift: "if you’re directly setting an image’s width and height using #CSS, then the browser only uses the width and height attributes in the #HTML tag to infer its aspect ratio." annafilou.com/en/width-hei...

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Making interesting borders with CSS corner-shape You can make cool beveled, rounded, notched, scooped, and elliptical borders with the new CSS corner-shape property!

Making interesting borders with #CSS corner-shape: "You can make cool beveled, rounded, notched, scooped, and elliptical borders with the new CSS corner-shape property!" cassidoo.co/post/css-cor...

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The Different Ways to Select <html> in CSS | CSS-Tricks Sure, we can select the <html> element in CSS with, you know, a simple element selector, html. But what other (trivial and perhaps useless) ways can we do it?

The Different Ways to Select <html> in #CSS: "Sure, we can select the html element in CSS with, you know, a simple element selector. But what other (trivial and perhaps useless) ways can we do it?" css-tricks.com/the-differen...

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Easier striped tables with the 'of [selector]' syntax - Darin Senneff It’s common for a table design to feature alternating row colors, which is pretty trivial to accomplish with CSS. But then if you need to hide some rows later,…

Easier striped tables with the 'of [selector]' syntax: "Alternating table row colors are trivial with #CSS. But if you need to hide some rows later, the striped background gets messed up. It turns out I slept on a cool CSS feature that makes this a non-issue." www.darins.page/articles/eas...

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Underlining Links With CSS A practical guide to styling link underlines with modern CSS text-decoration properties. Perfect for bookmarking when you need a quick reference!

Underlining Links With #CSS: "A practical guide to styling link underlines with modern CSS text-decoration properties. Perfect for bookmarking when you need a quick reference!" www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/und...

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Yet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element | CSS-Tricks TL;DR: We can center absolute-positioned elements in three lines of CSS. And it works on all browsers!

Yet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element: "We can center absolute-positioned elements in three lines of #CSS. And it works on all browsers!" css-tricks.com/yet-another-...

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How to scale elements and their layout with CSS "zoom" The CSS zoom property, unlike scale, affects an element's layout size, not just its visual appearance.

How to scale elements and their layout with #CSS zoom: "The CSS zoom property, unlike scale, affects an element's layout size, not just its visual appearance." www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-lear...

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Anna Filou | Smart Carousels with CSS Product/UI Designer based in Athens, working internationally.

Smart Carousels with #CSS: "You’ve undoubtedly seen carousels on the web. You know how usually the content gets cut off? So for a long time, I thought this was an unavoidable problem. But then I saw a carousel that worked right on Apple’s website! So… there was a way!" annafilou.com/en/carousels

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An in-depth guide to customising lists with CSS Richard Rutter helps you to make sense of list-style, list-item, ::marker, counters(), counter(), @counter-style, symbolic, symbols(), symbols and more to push your HTML and CSS lists to the next…

An in-depth guide to customising lists with #CSS: "Richard Rutter helps you to make sense of list-style, list-item, ::marker, counters(), counter(), @counter-style, symbolic, symbols(), symbols and more to push your HTML and CSS lists to the next level." piccalil.li/blog/an-in-d...

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Anchored Menus and a Lesson in Scoping Turns out `anchor-scope` is pretty darn useful for button/menu setups that will appear multiple times on the same page.

Anchored Menus and a Lesson in Scoping: "Turns out `anchor-scope` is pretty darn useful for button/menu setups that will appear multiple times on the same page." #CSS frontendmasters.com/blog/anchore...

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CSS Animation Triggers: Playing animations on scroll without scrubbing. It's a match! | utilitybend CSS scroll-triggered animations let you use scroll position to determine when animations play. Combined with scroll-driven animations for the perfect scrollytelling experience. A Valentine's special.

#CSS Animation Triggers: Playing animations on scroll without scrubbing: "CSS scroll-triggered animations let you use scroll position to determine when animations play. Combined with scroll-driven animations for the perfect scrollytelling experience." utilitybend.com/blog/css-ani...

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Lowering the specificity of multiple rules at once - Manuel Matuzovic You probably already knew that you can use `:where()` to lower the specificity of a single selector, but did you know that you can achieve a similar effect on multiple rules at once?

Lowering the specificity of multiple rules at once: "You probably already knew that you can use :where() to lower the specificity of a single selector, but did you know that you can achieve a similar effect on multiple rules at once?" #CSS matuzo.at/blog/2026/lo...

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How to Create a CSS-only Elastic Text Effect What can we say except BOINNNGGG BOINNGGGGGG.

How to Create a #CSS-only Elastic Text Effect: "What can we say except BOINNNGGG BOINNGGGGGG." frontendmasters.com/blog/how-to-...

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Making a Responsive Pyramidal Grid With Modern CSS | CSS-Tricks This is the second part of a small two-part series. In this article, we will explore another type of grid: a pyramidal one. We are still working with hexagon shapes, but a different organization of…

Making a Responsive Pyramidal Grid With Modern #CSS: "In this article, we will explore another type of grid: a pyramidal one. We are still working with hexagon shapes, but a different organization of the elements, while exploring other different shapes." css-tricks.com/making-a-res...

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