When learning the principles of basic CSS, one is taught to write modular, reusable, and descriptive styles to ensure maintainability. But when developers become involved with real-world applicatio...

The State of CSS 2025 Survey dropped a few days ago, and besides waiting for the results, it’s exciting to see a _lot_ of the new things shipped to CSS over the past year reflected in the questions...

A couple of days back, among the tens of crypto-scams that flood our contact inbox, we found an interesting question on nested lists from one of our readers. > I have a problem (related to list-nu...

The beauty of research is finding yourself on a completely unrelated topic mere minutes from opening your browser. It happened to me while [writing an Almanac entry on @namespace](https://css-trick...

Yes, you are reading that correctly: This is indeed a guide to styling counters with CSS. Some of you are cheering, “Finally!”, but I understand that the vast majority of you are thinking, “Um, it’...

_A much-needed disclaimer:_ You (kinda) can use functions now! I know, it isn’t the most pleasant feeling to finish reading about a new feature just for the author to say “And we’ll hopefully see i...

We’ve been able to [get the length of the viewport in CSS](https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/calculate-viewport-size-in-css/) since… _checks notes_… 2013! Surprisingly, that was more than a decad...

Have you ever stumbled upon something new and went to research it just to find that there is little-to-no information about it? It’s a mixed feeling: confusing and discouraging because there is no ...

2024 has been one of the greatest years for CSS: [cross-document view transitions](https://css-tricks.com/tag/view-transitions/), [scroll-driven animations](https://css-tricks.com/unleash-the-power...

Tooltips are like homemade food: everyone uses them and everyone has their own recipe to make them. If you don’t remember a particular recipe, you will search for one, follow it, and go on with you...