highlighted text effect w/ css gradient
Highlighters
Realistic, customizable highlighter-pen marks for the web. Bindings for React, Vue, and Svelte.
Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing | CSS-Tricks
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, ::first-word and ::first-line.
Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table
test highlights - underreacted
Lumis - Syntax Highlighter
Syntax highlighting powered by Tree-sitter and Neovim themes. One API across CLI, Rust, Elixir, JavaScript / TypeScript, browsers, and Java.
good-css
Strong opinions about modern CSS technique, borrowed from experts, for agents to know and reach for.
The State of CSS 2020: Conclusion
The annual survey about the latest trends in CSS.
Pseudo-classes - CSS | MDN
A CSS pseudo-class is a keyword added to a selector that lets you select elements based on information that lies outside of the document tree, such as a specific state of the selected element(s). For example, the pseudo-class :hover can be used to style a button when a user's pointer hovers over it.
una.im | Modern CSS theming with light-dark(), contrast-color(), and style queries
Combine three new CSS features to build fully adaptive themed components.
Pretext Does What CSS Can't — Measuring Text Before the DOM Even Exists | HackerNoon
Cheng Lou's Pretext library measures multiline text height without touching the DOM — unlocking layout capabilities CSS has never been able to offer.
Dark mode with web standards
Implementing dark mode with minimal JavaScript and standard CSS
Blog | FixBrowser
This blog post describes the rich text component used in FixBrowser web browser to display HTML pages and for interaction with the user.
New in Chrome 150 | Blog | Chrome for Developers
CSS text-fit property, Focusgroup declarative keyboard navigation, and CSS background-clip border-area.
Using CSS to fix the irradiation illusion · November 29, 2025
How to adjust perceived font weight in dark mode without layout shift
