Let’s get nuanced in this article and discuss the capabilities of both SVG and raster imaged so that you can make informed decisions in your own work.
Danny has several ideas for how we could use :near(), a proposed pseudo-class that detects when the pointer is near an element.
The distinction between "components" and "utilities" seems clear at first glance, but gets a little blurred when working with them in Tailwind.
Lee accepts a challenge: arranging text in a spiral that animates as a vortex on scroll... all in CSS.
This issue of What’s !important is dedicated to our friends in the UK, who are currently experiencing a very miserable 43-day rain streak. Presenting: the five most interesting things to read about CSS from the last couple of weeks. Plus, the latest features from Chrome 145, and anything else you might’ve missed. TL;DR: lots of content, but also lots of rain.
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 the elements., while exploring other different shapes.
The new contrast-color() function is not fully supported yet. But can we still implement it in a cross-browser friendly way using other new CSS features?
Can we make pie chart that's semantic, with flexible markup, and avoids using a JavaScript library? Here's how I tackled it.
CSS-only bar charts are one of those things we've tackled a bunch of times in different ways. But how can modern CSS features finally make it not only trivial, but fun?
You’d think that publishing a VS Code extension is an easy process, but it’s not. You have to publish your theme in at least two places.
I've always thought that creating a VS Code theme was a lot of work. But lo and behold, it took less than six hours to get it working, then a day or two to polish up my final tweaks.
Neither Chrome, Safari, nor Firefox have shipped new features in the last couple of weeks, but fear not because leading this issue of What’s !important is some of the web development industry’s best educators with, frankly, some killer content.
Chrome 144 recently shipped ::search-text, which is now one of several highlight-related pseudo-elements. This one selects find-in-page text, which is the text that gets highlighted when you do a Ctrl/Command + F-type search for something on a page and matches are found.
Accessibility advice around modals have commonly taught us to trap focus within the modal. Upon further research, it seems like we no longer need to trap focus within the (even in modal mode).