Balancing CSS flex items

Meet the experimental ‘flex-wrap: balance’ and ‘flex-line-count’.

Controlling the computation of CSS custom properties

When and how they’re calculated might surprise you.

Getting agents to write better CSS

Using Modern Web Guidance as a starting point.

Meta reads the web for free

”We’re aiming the machine-access fight at the wrong company.”

Detecting “undetectable” CSS features

Enter named-feature() for use with @supports.

New to the web platform (August 2026)

CSS ‘text-box’, sibling-count(), sibling-index(), and more.

Audit your agent files

How to keep your coding agent up to date.

CSS multiple-column layout, rows, rules, and floats

Missing pieces for creating print-style reading experiences.

How I work on my side projects

“I try to treat them like I would a professional project.”

TermDOM

Build terminal UIs with real HTML and CSS.

Orca

An open-source IDE for orchestrating AI coding agents.

Rediscovering Sublime Text

“It’s a nice, snappy text editor.”

The best web page minifier in 2026

”You want HTML Minifier Next or SWC/HTML.”

Evaluating a WCAG success criterion

How to get the W3C’s most current position on any SC.

Agentic skill decay

Mastery comes from repetition, even with agents.

New things to know about HTML

What might have slipped under your radar.

Introducing HTML ‘hic-pageflip’

A pageflip custom element powered by HTML-in-Canvas.

Media in issues, pull requests, and comments

GitHub now lets you attach images and videos from the CLI.

Submit your proposals for Interop 2027

Name what browsers should finally get right.

Can we stop with the uptime percentages?

“They are a lousy interface for general understanding.”

’initial-scale=1’ no longer needed

Your meta viewport only needs ‘width=device-width’.

Is npm finally safe?

How npm turned the tide on supply chain attacks.

Don’t be a meat proxy

Don’t forward AI answers you haven’t reviewed.

Most software was already slop

“Customers don’t care about the craft.”

Vibe coding and quality

“High quality is achievable only through vibe coding.”

Distinguishing human readers from bot traffic

”A substantial portion of my traffic is bots.”

Website Spec Checklist

What is required, recommended, and optional for your website.

Mesurer

Inspect, annotate, and give feedback on any live interface.

Pure CSS halftone patterns

A playground where any photo becomes a halftone print.

GitHub was never about the source code

“It’s the only ‘Facebook’ I still visit.”

There’s no limit to how bad code can get

“Technical debt has no bankruptcy, no clean reset.”

Resource age and its impact on cacheability

The caching mistake slowing millions of websites.

Maybe we shouldn’t review all this code

What if AI didn’t break code review but exposed it?

Animating CSS Grid layouts

Smooth grid reflows with CSS Anchor Positioning.

CodePen: exposed!

What the code editor’s users might not know.

Antiquated HTML snippets and artefacts

Forgotten markup that outlived its purpose.

Balancing heading styles using maths

Accessible headings using a modular scale.

Container style queries and advanced attr()

What if components styled themselves in CSS?

I asked 100 agents to hack me

How far can open-source agents get in 2026?

Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify

“Nothing changes with Tailwind CSS.”

Fresher features, faster fixes

Chrome’s two-week release cycle is here.

No AI Fridays

The weekly break your coding skills and joy deserve.

The Device Posture API

How CSS might adapt to a foldable device’s posture.

A deep dive into StyleX

“StyleX changes how we write CSS.”

HTML conformance in 2026

“2 of the global top 200 websites use valid HTML.”

CSS curiosities of the past

Hacks and quirks beyond the specification.

Run AI in the browser

A practical guide to Transformers.js.

RSS doesn’t have to be boring

“Know that you can pimp it a little bit.”

Handwritten code

“I love how the path you picked tells me about you.”

DialKit

Tune UIs live instead of reloading your page.

AI is breaking this thing we call trust

Trust assumes you understand your own work.

Why CSS-Tricks has been quiet lately

“I literally can’t afford to work free for months.”

Better icon and label alignment

Two methods for aligning icons on wrapped labels.

AI as an accessibility testing partner

“AI can make a strong auditor more effective.”

Comparing values with CSS progress()

Boolean-like conditional styling without JavaScript.

How I manage my fleet of agents

The agents talk through Git, so they’re replaceable.

Fixing fluid typography

Consistent text sizing with CSS @property.

Pluggable, extensible, and playful devtools

Devframe, foundation of the Universal DevTools Ecosystem.

Structured output is interesting again

Jev unlocks AI speed by dropping the chat.

Responsive iframes in Chrome 154

Scrollbar-free content embeds without JavaScript.

The Public Suffix List is “just a list”

Where domains rely on volunteers and plain text.

CSS-Tricks could be a co-op

What if the people who love it decided its future?

Modern web types

Types for every API in any stable browser.

You’ll miss publishers when they’re gone

“It all comes down to funding, I’m afraid.”

Modern HTML/CSS guide for artists

Build a lasting portfolio website from scratch.

The case for local AI

“Keep your data and your models close.”

Sidebranch

Git-based visual diffing, made easy.

Neobrutalism components

Build bold neobrutalism layouts in minutes.

Periodic Table of HTML Elements

A visual overview of the current HTML specification.

The death of web development education

Let’s stand with the people who teach the web!

Do frameworks matter anymore?

”There’s only one way to actually find out.”

Blurry before beautiful

A proposal for native image previews on the web.

The TermWeb standard

A foundation for terminal-friendly websites.

Stop buttons triggering accidental zooms

One line of CSS fixes double tap zoom issues on mobile.

One SVG, nine posters

Can we already style linked SVGs with CSS?

New in Chrome DevTools

Agent controls, modernized device presets, and more.

Fluid typography

What to know before picking an approach.

Detecting overlapping elements with CSS

”At first, I thought this was not possible.”

Built to last

“Software should be built as if every version could be the last.”

State of Devs 2026

”It is an uncertain time to be a developer.”

Chrome 152 brings connection allowlists

Secure your web application’s network access.

Sidenotes with CSS anchor positioning

Margin notes for your content without JavaScript.

32-Bit Cafe

A community cultivating a flourishing personal web.

Kev

Small Jev-like decision models you can train yourself.

Browsers situationship

When browsers agree but the spec doesn’t.

Respecting your users’ preferences

Honor the choices users already made.

Lazy loading images and media

How far ahead each browser fetches lazy images.

Web Workers

A second thread for your JavaScript.

HTML purity is a fetish

No errors, no warnings, no gods, no masters.

The future of software development

“Most predictions I see are still way too conservative.”

The code nobody reads

“Line-by-line reading is going away for a lot of code.”

Announcing Vite+ 1.0

The unified web toolchain is now stable.

Almost nobody gets XML sitemaps right

What Google really expects from your sitemap.

“Leaving things alone is an underrated engineering skill. There is a point in your career where you begin to understand that a surprising amount of good work comes from refusing to touch things that are already doing their job.”

Agent skills in the browser

What WebSkill delivers and what it doesn’t.

Example.com’s biggest redesign in decades

How the web’s example page reinvented itself.

Goodbye WordPress

“Here’s a WordPress export, rebuild it in Astro, go nuts.”

Screen Reader User Survey #11

What 1,780 users say about their screen reader habits.

EmDash 1.0

Cloudflare’s new open source CMS for humans and agents.

New to the web platform (September 2026)

CSS progress() and alpha() functions, scroll anchoring, and more.