Catching Up on the WordPress 🚫 WP Engine Sitch

Many of you — perhaps most of you — have been sitting on the sidelines while WordPress and WP Engine trade legal attacks on one another. It’s been widely covered as we watch it unfold in the open; ironically, in …

Catching Up on the WordPress 🚫…

Aggregating my distributed self

Miriam Suzanne’s in the middle of a redesign of her personal website. It began in August 2022. She’s made an entire series out of the work that’s worth your time, but I wanted to call out the fifth and latest …

Aggregating my distributed self originally published…

Slide Through Unlimited Dimensions With CSS Scroll Timelines

The creator of CSS has said he originally envisaged CSS as the main web technology to control behavior on web pages, with scripting as a fallback when things weren’t possible declaratively in CSS. The rationale for a CSS-first approach was …

Slide Through Unlimited Dimensions With CSS Scroll Timelines…

How to Make a “Scroll to Select” Form Control

The <select> element is a fairly straightforward concept: focus on it to reveal a set of <option>s that can be selected as the input’s value. That’s a great pattern and I’m not suggesting we change it. That said, I …

How to Make a “Scroll to Select” Form Control originally published on…

Color Mixing With Animation Composition

Mixing colors in CSS is pretty much a solved deal, thanks to the more recent color-mix() function as it gains support. Pass in two color values — any two color values at all — and optionally set the proportions.
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The selectmenu Element is No More…Long Live select!

I was looking over an older article Patrick Brosset penned for us introducing <selectmenu>, a new proposal at the time for a more style-able cousin to <select>. From there, I clicked the linked-up <selectmenu> explainer and got… this:…

The selectmenu Element is No More…Long Live select! originally…

CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-09-18)

For the past two months, all my livelihood has gone towards reading, researching, understanding, writing, and editing about Anchor Positioning, and with many Almanac entries published and a full Guide guide on the way, I thought I was ready to …

CSSWG Minutes Telecon (2024-09-18) originally published on…

Re-Working the CSS Almanac

Getting right to it: the CSS-Tricks Almanac got a big refresh this week!
I’m guessing you’re already familiar with this giant ol’ section of CSS-Tricks called the Almanac. This is where we publish references for CSS selectors and properties…

Re-Working the CSS Almanac originally published on CSS-Tricks, which…

One moment, please…

I’m working on a refresh of my personal website, what I’m calling the HD remaster. Well, I wouldn’t call it a “full” redesign. I’m just cleaning things up, and Polypane is coming in clutch. I wrote about how much …

Clever Polypane Debugging Features I’m Loving originally…

Multiple Anchors

Only Chris, right? You’ll want to view this in a Chromium browser:
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This is exactly the sort of thing I love, not for its practicality (cuz it ain’t), but for how it illustrates a concept. Generally, tutorials …

Multiple Anchors originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is…