The text-box-trim and text-box-edge properties in CSS enable developers to trim specifiable amounts of the whitespace that appear above the
2050141 - [text-box-trim] Set layout.css.text-box.enabled for all users
RESOLVED (sajidanwar94) in Core - Layout: Block and Inline. Last updated 2026-07-15.
box-sizing CSS property - CSS | MDN
The box-sizing CSS property sets how the total width and height of an element is calculated.
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.
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.
HTML Whitespace is Broken - Devel without a Cause
A deep dive into HTML whitespace collapsing: How it works, why it sucks, how it should work, and how to deal with it.
HTML Whitespace is Broken - Devel without a Cause
A deep dive into HTML whitespace collapsing: How it works, why it sucks, how it should work, and how to deal with 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 …
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.
New in Chrome 150 | Blog | Chrome for Developers
CSS text-fit property, Focusgroup declarative keyboard navigation, and CSS background-clip border-area.
CSS is filling the gaps with rules. A way to style gaps in grid and flex. | utilitybend
A practical walkthrough of CSS gap decorations: column-rule, row-rule, rule-break, rule-inset, rule-visibility-items, repeat(), and animation.
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
Relearn CSS layout
If you find yourself wrestling with CSS layout, it’s likely you’re making decisions for browsers they should be making themselves.
CSS Color Spaces and Relative Color Syntax | 12 Days of Web
Learn how to define color palettes that are perceptually uniform using the new Oklch color space and the relative color syntax in CSS.
Applying Author Styles | Web Browser Engineering
In the previous chapter we gave each pre element a gray background. It looks OK, and it is good to have defaults, but sites want a say in how they look. Websites do that with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which allow web authors (and, as we’ll see, browser developers) to define how a web page ought to look.
CSS Anchor Positioning Guide | CSS-Tricks
Learn about CSS Anchor Positioning, including its syntax, properties, how it is used to position one element next to another, and even how it's used to resize elements relative to other elements.
