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2025 Posts

  1. A weathered small boat in the fog, with ropes going into the water, hopefully leading to an anchor.
    Article post type

    Here’s Why Your Anchor Positioning Isn’t Working

    How to find an anchor element

    It is frustrating to track down why an anchor isn’t being found. I’ve found a simple way that should work in most cases. If that doesn’t work, step through the checklist, and then dive in to get a better understanding of how Anchor Positioning works.

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  2. Winging It post type

    Relative Units & Typography

    Join Miriam Suzanne, Stacy Kvernmo, and special guest Alan Stearns – typography enthusiast, co-chair of the CSS Working Group, and self-described CSS Panjandrum – for a conversation about typography. Responsive Typography has been around for at least a decade in various forms, but has become even more popular with tools…

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2024

  1. Winging It post type

    CSS IS AWESOME Game

    On December 17, 1996, the W3C published the first standard for CSS, and we celebrated the anniversary on Winging It! Michelle Barker, Stephanie Eckles, Kevin Powell, and Henri Helvetica joined us for our “CSS Is Awesome” game. If you love CSS as much as we do, we hope you will…

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  2. Indoor plants in pots on a floating shelf
held up by brackets.
    Link post type

    Sass Indented Syntax Improvements

    Bringing SCSS flexibility to .sass files

    The Sass indented format is getting more flexible with the ability to have multiline statements, semicolons, and more.

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  3. Winging It post type

    Baseline and Web Features

    What happens when you set out to categorize every API and property of the web? OddBird has been documenting CSS for the Web Features project. Join us as we explore some fascinating rabbit trails, edge cases, and insights into the web platform that we’ve encountered along the way.

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  4. A symmetrical knot with thick rope lying on weathered wood.
    Article post type

    Anchor Positioning Is Disruptive

    New layouts will be possible

    The more I play with it, the more convinced I am that anchor positioning is going to unlock some surprising new layouts.

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  5. A pay-to-use pair of binoculars at a scenic overlook.
    Article post type

    Updates to the Most Desired CSS Feature You Can’t Use Yet

    Performance, scope, and fallbacks for the anchor positioning polyfill

    Our sponsors are supporting the continued development of the CSS Anchor Positioning Polyfill. Here’s a summary of the latest updates.

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  6. A green on dark-gray horizontal bar chart, with the labels cut off
    Article post type

    What do survey demographics tell us?

    Are we measuring what we meant to measure?

    There’s been a lot of interest in the results of the annual State of CSS survey, but are we asking all the right questions?

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  7. A gallery of numbered images in four columns
    Article post type

    Choosing a Masonry Syntax in CSS

    What makes something a ‘grid’, and what’s at stake?

    Back in 2020, Firefox released a prototype for doing ‘masonry’ layout in CSS. Now all the browsers are eager to ship something, but there’s a hot debate about the best syntax to use.

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  8. Sass logo in black
on top of bright oklch color gradient
    Link post type

    Sass Color Spaces & Wide Gamut Colors

    Inspect and manipulate the new CSS color formats in Sass!

    CSS has a range of new color functions that support wider color gamuts (like display-p3) and perceptually uniform color adjustments (like oklch). Sass now provides additional tools for working with these new color formats, and converting between them.

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  9. Winging It post type

    Learn CSS Grid - Part 2

    In July we talked with Stephanie Eckles about how (and why) you can get started working grids into your CSS toolkit. As requested, this is part two of our dive into CSS grids. We address your questions about strategy – demoing how we plan and apply grid layouts, starting with…

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    Web Components

    Web Components are a polarizing feature that seem simultaneously old news and not quite ready for production yet. But we’ve been making things with Web Components, and finding some areas where they really work well. Join us, along with special guest Zach Leatherman of 11ty, to hear more about how…

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    Partial Feature Queries, Relaxed Layout Containment, and More

    CSS Working Group updates from July

    Over the last month, the CSS Working Group has determined we can loosen containment restrictions for query containers, and agreed on a syntax for special-case support queries (like support for the gap property in a flex context, or support for align-content in a block flow context).

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  13. Winging It post type

    Learn CSS Grid First

    We talk with Stephanie Eckles – the brain behind ModernCSS.dev and SmolCSS.dev – about CSS grids. We look at a few of the most common grid patterns, to show you how (and why) you can get started working grids into your CSS toolkit!

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