The best CSS news from around the web from the last two weeks. In this edition: advent calendars, CSS Wrapped 2025, and the latest Web Platform Updates. What’s !important #1: Advent Calendars, CSS Wrapped, Web Platform Updates, and More originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Andy Clarke with a brand-new resource. It generates the sort of fun typography that Andy commonly uses in his own work that's geared towards cartoon headings. Toon Title Text Generator originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
A list of rounded images that slightly overlap each other is a classic web design pattern. The main idea is not complex, but the new thing is the responsive part. that dynamically adjusts the overlap between the images so they fit inside the container. Responsive List of Avatars Using Modern CSS (Part 1) originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
How far can we really go with container queries? There are dozens of media queries now, so what if there were dozens of container queries as well? What could we use them for? What Else Could Container Queries… Query? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
It’s not that hard to do! Preethi shows you how it's really the same old animation you’re used to writing in CSS, only applied on a view timeline instead of a normal timeline. Creating Scroll-Based Animations in Full view() originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
The Chrome Dev Team recaps the new CSS features that shipped in Google Chrome this past year in one amazingly designed webpage. They cover new functionality for creating more customizable components, next-gen interactions, and optimizing ergonomics. We’ve … CSS Wrapped 2025 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
The Chrome team recently prototyped a working solution for fitting text to the width of a container in CSS using a text-grow property. Fit width text in 1 line of CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
I would like to tell you what I learned from a five-year old child about HTML and CSS. It’s funny how explaining something you do almost naturally teaches you about yourself and what you take for granted. That Time I Tried Explaining HTML and CSS to My 5-Year Old Niece originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
It's easy to think of HTML Web Components as a recent feature, but it has roots that go all the way back to 1998. HTML Web Components Proposal From 1998 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
A good measure makes reading text comfortable, while a bad one makes it more difficult. So, rather than allowing layout to dictate the measure, doesn’t it make more sense for the measure to inform layout decisions? Getting Creative With “The Measure” originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
