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When we’re thinking about choosing colors in design, we’re always thinking about accessibility. Whenever colors touch, there is contrast and, if we’re talking about the color contrast of text, it needs to be high enough to be readable. This benefits …

You know how you can style (to some degree) selected text with ::selection? Well, Jeff Starr uncovered a heck of a weird CSS bug.

If you:

1. Leave that selector empty
2. Link it from an external stylesheet (rather than <style></style>

Perhaps you know this one: if any part of a selector is invalid, it invalidates the whole selector. For example:

div, span::butt {
  background: red;
}

Even though div is a perfectly valid selector, span:butt is not, thus the entire …