Like ’em or loath ’em, whether you’re showing an alert, a message, or a newsletter signup, dialogue boxes draw attention to a particular piece of content without sending someone to a different page...

I mentioned [last time](https://css-tricks.com/revisiting-css-border-image/) that I’ve been working on a new website for Emmy-award-winning game composer Mike Worth. He hired me to create a highly ...

In my last article on [“Revisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout”](https://css-tricks.com/revisiting-css-multi-column-layout/), I mentioned that almost twenty years have flown by since I wrote my first b...

Honestly, it’s difficult for me to come to terms with, but almost 20 years have passed since I wrote my first book, _Transcending CSS_. In it, I explained how and why to use what was the then-emerg...

SVG animations take me back to the Hanna-Barbera cartoons I watched as a kid. Shows like _Wacky Races_, _The Perils of Penelope Pitstop_, and, of course, [_Yogi Bear_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

The SMIL specification was introduced by the W3C in 1998 for synchronizing multimedia. This was long before CSS animations or JavaScript-based animation libraries were available. It was built into ...

Despite keyframes and scroll-driven events, CSS animations have remained relatively rudimentary. As I wrote in [Part 1](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/smashing-animations-part-1-classic-c...

Browser makers didn’t take long to add the movement capabilities to CSS. The simple :hover pseudo-class came first, and a bit later, the transitions between two states. Then came the ability to cha...