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Thinking Deeply About Theming and Color Naming | CSS-Tricks
As a front-end developer, I’ve been pretty curious about how other people code up their websites. So I tend to poke my head into design systems whenever I find one. Then, late last year, a conversation with Geoff Graham set me off thinking even deeper about theming websites. (If you don’t know that dude, he’s…
Keeping Article Demos Alive When Third-Party APIs Die | CSS-Tricks
After four years, the demos in my “Headless Form Submission with the WordPress REST API” article finally stopped working. The article includes CodePen embeds that demonstrate how to use the REST API endpoints of popular WordPress form plugins to capture and display validation errors and submission feedback when building a completely custom front-end. The pens…
How to Discover a CSS Trick | CSS-Tricks
Do we invent or discover CSS tricks? Michelangelo described his sculpting process as chiseling away superfluous material to reveal the sculpture hidden inside the marble, and Stephen King says his ideas are pre-existing things he locates and uncovers “like fossils in the ground.” Paragraph one is early for me to get pretentious enough to liken…
A Primer on Focus Trapping | CSS-Tricks
Focus trapping is a term that refers to managing focus within an element, such that focus always stays within it: If a user tries to tab out from the last element, we return focus to the first one. If the user tries to Shift + Tab out of the first element, we return focus back…
What I Took From the State of Dev 2025 Survey | CSS-Tricks
State of Devs 2025 survey results are out! While the survey isn’t directly related to the code part of what we do for work, I do love the focus Devographics took ever since its inception in 2020. And this year it brought us some rather interesting results through the attendance of 8,717 developers, lots of data, and even more useful insights that…
Scroll-Driven Sticky Heading | CSS-Tricks
Scroll-driven animations are great! They’re a powerful tool that lets developers tie the movement and transformation of elements directly to the user’s scroll position. This technique opens up new ways to create interactive experiences, cuing images to appear, text to glide across the stage, and backgrounds to subtly shift. Used thoughtfully, scroll-driven animations (SDA) can…
The Gap Strikes Back: Now Stylable | CSS-Tricks
Four years ago, I wrote an article titled Minding the “gap”, where I talked about the CSS gap property, where it applied, and how it worked with various CSS layouts. At the time, I described how easy it was to evenly space items out in a flex, grid, or multi-column layout, by using the gap…
CSS Blob Recipes | CSS-Tricks
Blob, Blob, Blob. You hate them. You love them. Personally, as a design illiterate, I like to overuse them… a lot. And when you repeat the same process over and over again, it’s only a question of how much you can optimize it, or in this case, what’s the easiest way to create blobs in…
Lightly Poking at the CSS if() Function in Chrome 137 | CSS-Tricks
We’ve known it for a few weeks now, but the CSS if() function officially shipped in Chrome 137 version. It’s really fast development for a feature that the CSSWG resolved to add less than a year ago. We can typically expect this sort of thing — especially one that is unlike anything we currently have…
CSS Color Functions | CSS-Tricks
If you asked me a few months ago, “What does it take for a website to stand out?” I may have said fancy animations, creative layouts, cool interactions, and maybe just the general aesthetics, without pointing out something in particular. If you ask me now, after working on color for the better part of the…