WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration
Fränk Klein |
Seven and half years after blocks arrived in Core, WordPress introduces a way to build blocks without React annd build pipelines. All you need is PHP.
WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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Resolved: CSS Class Prefix Selector
Geoff Graham |
A newly resolved proposal would allow us to select classes that are a prefix for variations with a wildcard, like .prefix-*.
Resolved: CSS Class Prefix Selector originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days
Geoff Graham |
Apply a style when someone navigates from one specific page to another. The idea being it'd make the sources for cross-document view transitions declarative in CSS rather than managing that stuff in JavaScript.
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WordPress.com Student Plan
Geoff Graham |
As someone who teaches beginning web development, I find that building a WordPress site makes for a great final project. Hosting those projects has always been a roadblock though.
WordPress.com Student Plan originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the new... read more
Dark mode toggles: two states are enough
Geoff Graham |
Lea's pushing back on light/dark mode implementations that display three state options for visitors: light, dark, and system.
Dark mode toggles: two states are enough originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More
Daniel Schwarz |
Plus, how to style skeleton UIs, how to enable diagonal scrolling, how images can overflow themselves, and yet, still more. Basically, how to do a lot of really cool (CSS) stuff.
What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More originally handwritt... read more
Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong
Durgesh Rajubhai Pawar |
The warning is correct. And the recommended fixes you've probably seen are wrong. Here's what you can do instead to properly fix the issue.
Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really... read more
Animating CSS border-image
Preethi |
Border images are an overlooked feature. One neat fact is that border image slices can run across entire borders on an element, and animating it creates beautiful effects.
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SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10
Geoff Graham |
Smashing Magazine’s in-person conferences are back and returning to the wonderful city of Freiburg next month, September 7–10.
SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10 originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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Using and Styling the Dialog Element
Geoff Graham |
There's a lot of nuance to the <dialog> element, a seemingly little piece of web architecture. I've got some notes from digging into it.
Using and Styling the Dialog Element originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
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