No Hassle Visual Code Theming: Publishing an Extension đź”—
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. No Hassle Vis [...]
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No-Hassle Visual Studio Code Theming: Building an Extension đź”—
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 t [...]
What’s !important #4: Videos & View Transitions, Named Media Queries, How Browsers Work, and More 🔗
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 !importan [...]
Styling ::search-text and Other Highlight-y Pseudo-Elements đź”—
The new ::search-text pseudo (Chrome 144) matches are yellow while the current target (::search-text:current) is orange, but ::search-text enables us [...]
ReliCSS đź”—
Stu Robson's ReliCSS (clever name!) tool can excavate outdated CSS in your codebase that have modern CSS solutions. ReliCSS originally published on CS [...]
There is No Need to Trap Focus on a Dialog Element đź”—
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 t [...]
Responsive Hexagon Grid Using Modern CSS đź”—
A while back, Temani tacked a repeating grid of hexagon shapes. Well, he's updated it with modern CSS features that result in fewer magic numbers. And [...]
Open Props @custom-media Recipes đź”—
The @custom-media at-rule has landed in Firefox Nightly! I couldn’t find it in the release notes but Adam Argyle’s on the beat noting that it’s behind [...]
I Learned The First Rule of ARIA the Hard Way đź”—
Semantic HTML does a lot more accessibility work than we usually give it credit for already — and ARIA is simple to abuse when we use it both as a sho [...]
HTTP Archive 2025 Web Almanac đź”—
I love me some good web research reports. I’m a sucker for them. HTTP Archive’s Web Almanac is one report I look forward to every year, and I know I’m [...]
“I Heart CSS” DailyDev Squad 🔗
If you’re reading this, chances are you already have some sort of way that you’re following when we publish new content, whether that’s RSS, Bluesky, [...]
What’s !important #3: Popover Context Menus, @scope, New Web Platform Features, and More 🔗
The developer community hasn’t wasted any time kicking off 2026 with some really great articles, demos, and insights. Firefox 147 and Chrome 144 also [...]
Playing With CodePen slideVars đź”—
Super cool new CodePen feature alert! You've probably seen a bunch of "interactive" demos that let you changed values on the fly from a UI panel embed [...]
Postcard From Web Directions Dev Summit, 2025 đź”—
Lee Meyer recently spoke at Web Directions Summit 2025. This is his experience, not only speaking at the event, but experiencing the event through the [...]
Future CSS: :drag (and Maybe ::dragged-image?) đź”—
Have you ever struggled to style an element while it's being dragged? Sunkanmi explains some ways it could become easier in the future. Future CSS: :d [...]