CSS Tricks

Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API

Daniel Schwarz |
The general idea is that we create a Document Picture-in-Picture window (DPIP window), and then we put HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into it. Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newslette... read more

animation-trigger

Saleh Mubashar |
The CSS animation-trigger property allows you to delay the start of a CSS animation until a specific trigger occurs. animation-trigger originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. ... read more

MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter

Geoff Graham |
Syntax highlighting for code blocks without the complicated markup, spans, classes, and bloated JavaScript, courtesy of Uncle Dave. MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well. ... read more

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. ... read more

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. ... read more

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. CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days originally handwritten and published with love on C... read more

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. ... read more

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