CSS

Container style queries and advanced attr(): rethinking how to wire up my components in CSS | utilitybend

Wiring HTML attributes into CSS with advanced typed attr(), and letting container style queries pass that state down to child components.

Better Icon and Label Alignment

There is a common design pattern that sometimes gets missed or overlooked. It’s having a list of items, each with an icon. When the text is one line, the icon is centered, but when the text has multiple lines, the icon is still centered but looks odd.

Remove start and end margins with the margin-trim property

A frequently asked multiple-column layout question is why a new paragraph at the start of the column has additional space above it.

Shrink-wrap Text with `position-anchor`

Normal text wrapping can leave big gaps in your container, which can become even more exaggerated with the new-ish CSS values of text-wrap: balance and text-wrap: pretty. You almost certainly want …

Josh W. Comeau (@joshwcomeau.com)

✨ Neat CSS trick ✨ We can use `width: fit-content` to have a container element shrink to fit its element's width. This is useful for cards! But if that card has any text content, that text will blow out the width of the card, since it won't automatically linewrap. So we wind up with this issue:

Pure CSS halftone patterns: dots, lines, circles

A project overdue. As an 80's/90's kid, I was obsessed with printing technology - and especially halftone patterns. I've long theorized that these pat

Kevin Powell (@kevinpowell.co)

Because I always use unitless values for line-height, I had always, incorrectly, assumed that it worked the same way as using % would... turns out I was wrong!

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una.im | Modern CSS theming with light-dark(), contrast-color(), and style queries

Combine three new CSS features to build fully adaptive themed components.

Typo

Design a modular type scale, preview it live, and copy production-ready CSS with optional fluid typography.

Compositing & Blending • Niklas Gadermann

Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes in the browser

OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

CSS Color Module 4 adds oklch(), and we gain P3 wide-gamut support, boost code readability, and improve developer-designer communication.

The Color System I Wish I Understood Sooner

Does your system for naming colors always feel like it falls short? This two-layer approach solves so many problems!

Victor (@vpon.me)

One CSS property just killed every auto-resize textarea script you've ever written. Seriously, one line. The property is field-sizing: content