Articles by CSS Tricks from September 2022

So you want an auto-playing looping video without sound? In popular vernacular this is the very meaning of the word GIF. The word has stuck around but the image format itself is ancient and obsolete. ...

Did you know that DOM elements with IDs are accessible in JavaScript as global variables? Its one of those things thats been around, like, forever but Im really digging into it for the first time.If t...

The wave is probably one of the most difficult shapes to make in CSS. We always try to approximate it with properties like border-radius and lots of magic numbers until we get something that feels kin...

If we browse the WordPress theme directory, a majority of themes showcase cover images. It is a feature in popular demand. The cover page trend is true even in the block theme directory screenshots as...

The video of Chris Coyier’s talk at CascadiaJS 2022 is now available. It’s his first in-person talk in more than two years, so it’s great to see our good friend back on stage slingin...

SVG is the best format for icons on a website, there is no doubt about that. It allows you to have sharp icons no matter the screen pixel density, you can change the styles of the SVG on hover …...

The latest spec:A style rule is a qualified rule that associates a selector list with a list of property declarations and possibly a list of nested rules. They are also c...

On one hand, creating simple checkered backgrounds with CSS is easy. On the other hand, though, unless we are one of the CSS-gradient-ninjas, we are kind of stuck with basic patterns.At least thats wh...

Gradients have been a part of the CSS spectrum for quite some time now. We see a lot of radial and linear gradients in a lot of projects, but there is one type of gradient that seems to be a …Ma...

A lot of chatter around the ol’ <details> and <summary> elements lately! I saw Lea Verou recently tweet an observation about the element’s display behavior and that sorta s...

Using CSS, its possible to prevent users from selecting text within an element using user-select: none. Now, its understandable why doing so might be considered controversial. I mean, should we be dis...

Whew boy, Safari 16 is officially out in the wild and it packs in a bunch of features, some new and exciting (Subgrid! Container Queries! Font Palettes!) and others we’ve been waiting on for bet...

Youve probably heard a lot of hype around one of the newest kids on the framework block, Remix. It may be surprising that it got its start back in 2019, but it was originally only available as a subsc...

Figma has always encouraged collaboration between developers and designers. It strives on an endless treasury of community-made plugins. Need 3D elements? Theres a plugin for that....

I recently discovered the joy of creating CSS-only games. Its always fascinating how HTML and CSS are capable of handling the logic of an entire online game, so I had to try it! Such games usually rel...

Browsers are constantly adding new HTML, JavaScript and CSS features. Here are some useful additions to working with forms that you might have missedrequestSubmit()Safari 16 will be the final browser ...

As the name suggests, overlapping charts visualize two different sets of data in a single diagram. The idea is that the overlapping bars allow us to compare data, say, year-over-year. They are also us...

CSS-only Wolfenstein is a little project that I made a few weeks ago. It was an experiment with CSS 3D transformations and animations.Inspired by the FPS demo and another Wolfenstein CodePen, I decide...

I started as a front-end web developer and then became a Flutter developer. I think there were some concepts that helped me adopt Flutter easier. There were also some new concepts that were different....

Those of you who have been reading CSS-Tricks for a while may remember that we used to publish a little thing we called CSS-Tricks Chronicles. Our friend Chris Coyier would write up a reflection from ...

A screen reader is an important accessibility tool for people with no or limited vision. People who are blind or those with low vision can use a screen reader to navigate the computer. Screen readers ...

A screen reader is an important accessibility tool for people with no or limited vision. People who are blind or those with low vision can use a screen reader to navigate the computer. Screen readers ...

Ahmad Shadeed got an early jump on container queries and has a growing collection of examples based on everyday patterns.And, if you missed it, his latest post on container queries does a wonderful jo...