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color-scheme
You know how we have “dark mode” and “light mode” these days? Browsers also have “dark” and “light” color schemes baked into their default styles. The CSS color-scheme
property lets the browser use (or choose) to display certain elements with …
Animating CSS Grid (How To + Examples)
I’m pleased to shine a light on the fact that the CSS grid-template-rows
and grid-template-columns
properties are now animatable in all major web browsers! Well, CSS Grid has technically supported animations for a long time, as it’s baked right …
Getting Started With SvelteKit
SvelteKit is the latest of what I’d call next-gen application frameworks. It, of course, scaffolds an application for you, with the file-based routing, deployment, and server-side rendering that Next has done forever. But SvelteKit also supports nested layouts, server mutations …
More Real-World Uses for :has()
The :has()
pseudo-class is, hands-down, my favorite new CSS feature. I know it is for many of you as well, at least those of you who took the State of CSS survey. The ability to write selectors upside down …

How to Transition to Manifest V3 for Chrome Extensions
While I am not a regular Chrome extension programmer, I have certainly coded enough extensions and have a wide enough web development portfolio to know my way around the task. However, just recently, I had a client reject one of …
Solved With :has(): Vertical Spacing in Long-Form Text
If you’ve ever worked on sites with lots of long-form text — especially CMS sites where people can enter screeds of text in a WYSIWYG editor — you’ve likely had to write CSS to manage the vertical spacing between different …
6 Common SVG Fails (and How to Fix Them)
Someone recently asked me how I approach debugging inline SVGs. Because it is part of the DOM, we can inspect any inline SVG in any browser DevTools. And because of that, we have the ability to scope things out and …
border-image-width
The CSS border-image-width
property is used to determine the width of the border’s image file, as provided by the CSS border-image-source
property.
.container {
border-style: ridge;
border-width: 3rem;
border-image-source: url('path/to/image.jpg');
border-image-slice: 70;
border-image-width: 40%;
border-image-repeat: repeat;
}
… :has is an unforgiving selector
A little thing happened on the way to publishing the CSS :has()
selector to the ol’ Almanac. I had originally described :has()
as a “forgiving” selector, the idea being that anything in its argument is evaluated, even if one or …
Faking Min Width on a Table Column
The good ol’ <table>
tag is the most semantic HTML for showing tabular data. But I find it very hard to control how the table is presented, particularly column widths in a dynamic environment where you might not know how …
Styling Buttons in WordPress Block Themes
A little while back, Ganesh Dahal penned a post here on CSS-Tricks responding to a tweet that asked about adding CSS box shadows on WordPress blocks and elements. There’s a lot of great stuff in there that leverages new features …
