::search-text đź”—
The CSS ::search-text pseudo-element selects the matching text from your browser's "find in page" feature. ::search-text originally handwritten and p [...]
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Astro Markdown Component Utility for Any Framework đź”—
In the previous article, I spoke about the why and how to use a Markdown component in Astro. Here, we’re going to expand on that and help you use Mark [...]
What’s !important #12: Safari Testing, ::checkmark, HTML Anchor Positioning, and More 🔗
The old (testing in Safari when you don’t have Safari), the new (::checkmark), the in-between (anchor positioning but with HTML), and more. What’s !im [...]
Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing đź”—
Until we get something like ::nth-letter, there are still some really cool text effects we can make from existing CSS features, like letter-spacing, : [...]
Technical Writing in the AI Age đź”—
This isn’t totally about AI. It’s about technical writing in the age of AI. I have some thoughts on this and I hope it’s helpful to you humans reading [...]
Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of Elements đź”—
Every view-transition-name on a page must be unique. The problem is that every pseudo-element selector in your CSS targets a specific name, so your an [...]
The State of CSS Centering in 2026 đź”—
Despite the countless number of online resources, it’s easy to get confused when trying to center an element. There are documented solutions, but do y [...]
Stack Overflow: When We Stop Asking đź”—
It still hits like a ton of bricks to see the steep decline in Stack Overflow questions. What does that mean about learning in our industry? Stack Ove [...]
Cross-Document View Transitions: The Gotchas Nobody Mentions đź”—
This is Part 1 of a two-part series about cross-document view transitions, going over all the gotchas, from ditching the deprecated way to opt into th [...]
What’s !important #11: 3D Voxel Scenes, Flying Focus, CSS Syntaxes, and More 🔗
If 3D voxel scenes (that you can style), flying focus animations, or new CSS syntaxes sound like your kinda thing, then this issue of What’s !importan [...]
Computing and Displaying Discounted Prices in CSS đź”—
A clever use of CSS to calculate and display a discounted product price by providing a base price and discount amount, featuring modern CSS features l [...]
rotateX() đź”—
The rotateX()Â function rotates an element around the x-axis in a three-dimensional space rotateX() originally handwritten and published with love on C [...]
rotateY() đź”—
The rotateY() function rotates an element around its vertical y-axis. rotateY() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You shou [...]