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A select should tell you something
With CSS appearance: base-select, an HTML option can finally hold rich content such as previews, numbers, job titles or warnings. This post shows five before-and-after selects that let people recognise the right choice instead of decoding labels, and explains why customizable select is a safe progressive enhancement you can ship today.
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Brennen Puth argues that text-heavy websites should print cleanly, walking through what went wrong when he printed his own blog and the print stylesheet changes he made to hide navigation and other screen-only elements.
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Josh W. Comeau walks through the top 10 CSS features he voted for in Mozilla's Interop 2027 ranking, from native CSS functions onward, explaining what each does, current browser support as of October 2026, and tips you can use today, as browser vendors plan next year's cross-browser Interop focus areas.
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Iframes that finally fit their content
Ahmad Elalfy explains Chrome 154's responsive iframes, which let an iframe grow to its content height with one CSS property, as long as the embedded page opts in with a meta tag. He compares it with the old postMessage and ResizeObserver approach and covers fallbacks, layout shift and the privacy risk of allowing any origin.
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This is a collection of classless css themes to use as starting points in web development. Paste into your website's <head this snippet.
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Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
GitHub’s Primer team recounts fully migrating github.com off CSS-in-JS to CSS Modules—feature flags, sx-prop cleanup, theming, and the performance wins along the way.
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Eric Bailey argues CSS-Tricks should become a co-op so the web keeps an independent, practitioner-owned home for frontend knowledge—after the site’s repeated near-deaths under corporate ownership.
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Better Icon and Label AlignmentAligning list icons when labels wrap to multiple lines.
There is a common design pattern that sometimes gets missed or overlooked. It’s having a list of items, each with an icon. When the text is one line, the icon is centered, but when the text has multiple lines, the icon is still centered but looks odd.
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Developer Vale observes that CSS-Tricks, the long-running web development publication acquired by DigitalOcean in 2022, has gone inactive again after a second revival attempt. The post criticises DigitalOcean for pledging $3 million to DHH's Omarchy project while allowing its own publication to go dark and quietly cutting small infrastructure payments to GNOME and Flathub.
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Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify
Adam Wathan announces that Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify to give Tailwind CSS a stable long-term home. The open-source framework will continue under the MIT license with no changes, while commercial products like Tailwind UI will stop accepting new customers.
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Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSSOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A migration from Tailwind to semantic HTML and plain CSS becomes a lesson in organizing styles. Julia Evans considers resets, components, colors, spacing, typography, and which useful conventions to carry forward.
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