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Answering a reader's question about how to create a complex numbering system with CSS list counters. A Reader’s Question on Nested Lists originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. ... read more

Some weekend reading on the heels of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAADM), which took place yesterday. The Email Markup Consortium (EMC) released its 2025 study on the accessibility in HTML emails, and the TL;DR is … HTML Email Accessibility Report 2025 originally published on CSS-Tricks, wh... read more

Hey, isn't there a fairly new CSS feature that works with scroll regions? Oh yes, that's Scroll-Driven Animations. Shouldn't that mean we can trigger an animation while scrolling through the items in a CSS carousel? Scroll-Driven Animations Inside a CSS Carousel originally published on CSS-Tricks,... read more

What it looks like to troubleshoot one of those impossible issues that turns out to be something totally else you never thought of. This Isn’t Supposed to Happen: Troubleshooting the Impossible originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newslet... read more

I know, I know: there are a ton of content management system options available, and while I've tested several, none have really been the one, y'know? Weird pricing models, difficult customization, some even end up becoming a whole 'nother thing to manage. Using Pages CMS for Static Site Content Ma... read more

What does it look like to refactor your own code? John Rhea picks apart an old CSS animation he wrote and walks through the thought process of optimizing it. Orbital Mechanics (or How I Optimized a CSS Keyframes Animation) originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean famil... read more

Okay, nobody is an exaggeration, but have you seen the stats for hwb()? They show a steep decline, and after working a lot on color in the CSS-Tricks almanac, I’ve just been wondering why that is. Why is Nobody Using the hwb() Color Function? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of th... read more

Along with the version 3.13 release, GSAP, and all its awesome plugins, are now freely available to everyone. GSAP is Now Completely Free, Even for Commercial Use! originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter. ... read more

Using scroll shadows, especially for mobile devices, is a subtle bit of UX that Chris has covered before. Geoff covered a newer approach that uses the animation-timeline property. Here’s yet another way. Modern Scroll Shadows Using Scroll-Driven Animations originally published on CSS-Tricks, which... read more

The CSS shape() function recently gained support in both Chromium and WebKit browsers. It's a way of drawing complex shapes when clipping elements with the clip-path property. CSS shape() Commands originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the news... read more