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[Geoff:] This is the first year I’ve lived where it snows in the winter. One morning our family woke up and smushed our faces against the glass door to the backyard to marvel at our mini winter wonderland. I never …

[Geoff:] I think like lots of y’all, I’m not sure what to make of social media these days. There are two personal memories I have of when Twitter felt like magic. The first was seeing one of my earliest tweets …

[Geoff:] I’ve developed a habit on CodePen where I start structing my CSS in cascade layers. Because I demo a lot of stuff, I often want the most relevant styles at the very top of the CSS. I’ve usually done …

[Geoff:] The news that Adobe is acquiring Figma produced typical knee-jerk reactions in both directions. I’m not here to add to the noise; you already know how you feel about it and my take isn’t any different than what you …

[Geoff]: There’s been a recent resurgence in the Document Outline debate, though this time with a (sorta) resolution. The original idea that we could have an outline algorithm that allows us to use <h1> as a generic heading element anywhere …

[Chris]: Hey! Thanks for tuning in for another week of CSS-Tricks news! Future issues of this newsletter will be coming from the gang at DigitalOcean so if they look a smidge different, that’s why! Reminder! If you’d like to keep …

[Chris]: Hey hey — it’s been about a week since we announced the ownership transition of this site to DigitalOcean. The outpouring of positivity and support has been overwhelming in the best sort of way. Even my comrades Geoff…

[Chris]: Hey gang! Lemme start with the big news. I know some of you are specifically newsletter readers and this might be the first you’re hearing of it: DigitalOcean has acquired CSS-Tricks. That’s this site! This newsletter! That last link …

[Chris]: I got a kick out of the synchronized blog post publishing around Interop 2022.

• WebKit: Working together on Interop 2022 (HTML has <meta property="article:published_time" content="2022-03-03T09:00:44-08:00")
• Mozilla: Announcing Interop 2022 (HTML has <abbr class="published" title="2022-03-03T09:00:02-08:00"

[Chris]: I’ve been savin’ up some 🔥 hot links to share with ya, which I’ll do below in this special hot links edition of the CSS-Tricks Newsletter brought to you buy Shortcut, built specifically for software teams.

[Robin]: Sometimes CSS can feel like everyone is shouting…

.overly#powerful .framework.widget {
  color: maroon;
}

Ah! Please stop yelling at me!

Whenever I read stuff like this I think ah, yes, you are trying to override some other CSS in …

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[Robin]: This week Simon Hearne wrote this mighty fine piece about web performance and survivorship bias. His argument is this: we have a bunch of data about how our website is doing (and how poor the …

[Robin]: Stephanie Eckles wrote this nifty piece about how to use CSS scroll snap to make a website that feels more like a slide deck. With just a few interesting bits of HTML and CSS, you can make a pretty …

[Robin]: Here’s a smart take from Eric Bailey: just because we have evergreen browsers doesn’t mean we can use the latest features. “Evergreen browsers” here meaning browsers like Chrome and Firefox that update automatically without you having to …

I love it when a seasoned developer feels compelled to get a bit retrospective and share advice that they’ve had to learn the hard way in their careers. It often gets a bit philosophical and sometimes a bit Reader’s Digest-y …

[Robin]: Regular contributor to the blog and all-around outstanding CSS-er, Preethi, had one of those ideas that makes me wake up as if I’ve been splashed with cold water whenever I hear it: what if we made this weird thing …

Surprise surprise, we write about CSS quite a bit around here. It’s always interesting to think about where it sits in the pantheon of web performance. Generally, the biggest thing that is talked about with web performance is stuff like …

[Robin]: CSS-Tricks started way back in 2007. That’s 15 years! Since then Chris has redesigned the website a bunch of times and with each new version of the site comes a visual refresh, a new trick or two, and the …

[Robin]: The next big thing that’s coming to a browser near you is CSS Cascade Layers. Una Kravets made a great video all about them and how they’re coming to Firefox and Chrome pretty dang soon. I’d definitely watch …

[Robin]: My hunch is that 2022 will be The Year of the Container Query. Everyone’s excited about them, and for good reason: this new and fancy addition to CSS makes a component respond to whatever container they’re placed in. For …