Clever, clever that Andy Bell. He shares [a technique for displaying image alt text when the image fails to load](https://piccalil.li/blog/you-can-style-alt-text-like-any-other-text/?ref=main-rss-f...

Shape master Temani Afif has what might be [the largest collection of CSS shapes](https://css-generators.com) on the planet with all the tools to generate them on the fly. There’s a mix of clever t...

Some weekend reading on the heels of [Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAADM)](https://accessibility.day), which took place yesterday. The Email Markup Consortium (EMC) released its 2025 study o...

I was reflecting on what I learned about [CSS Carousels](https://css-tricks.com/css-carousels/) recently. There’s a lot they can do right out of the box (and some things [they don’t](https://www.sa...

The CSS shape() function recently gained support in both [Chromium](https://developer.chrome.com/blog/css-shape) and [WebKit](https://webkit.org/blog/16794/the-css-shape-function/) browsers. It’s a...

Brad Frost is running this new little podcast called _[Open Up](https://smashingconf.com/open-up)_. Folks write in with questions about the “other” side of web design and front-end development — no...

Ten divs walk into a bar: <div>1</div> <div>2</div> <div>3</div> <div>4</div> <div>5</div> <div>6</div> <div>7</div> <div>8</div> <div>9</div> <div>10</div> There’s not enough chairs for them t...

Hey, did you see the post Jen Simmons [published](https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/) about WebKit’s text-wrap: pretty implementation? It was added to Safari Tec...

Normally, I like to publish one of these updates every few months. But seeing as the last one dates back to September of last year, I’m well off that mark and figured it’s high time to put pen to p...

If I were starting with CSS today for the very first time, I would first want to spend time understanding [writing modes](https://css-tricks.com/css-writing-modes/) because that’s a great place to ...

The [CSS Overflow Module Level 5 specification](https://www.w3.org/TR/css-overflow-5/) defines a couple of new features that are designed for creating carousel UI patterns: [Scroll Buttons](https...

I was chatting with [Andy Clarke](https://css-tricks.com/author/andyclarke/) the other day about a new article he wants to write about SVG animations. “I’ve read some things that said that SMIL mi...