Don’t judge a book by its cover
Some neat CSS from Tess that’s a great example of progressive enhancement; these book covers look good in all browsers, but they look even better in some.
CSS is Awesome | CSS-Tricks
Geek humour is no laughing matter, as Chris demonstrates here with his thorough dissection of that coffee mug.
CSS is weird. It’s unlike any other code, and that makes a lot of programmers uncomfortable. But used wisely it can, in fact, be awesome.
It’s not often I say this, but read the comments.
Related links
Lowering the specificity of multiple rules at once - Manuel Matuzovic
This is clever, and seems obvious in hindsight: use an anonymous @layer for your CSS reset rules!
CSS-in-JS: The Great Betrayal of Frontend Sanity - The New Stack
This is a spot-on analysis of how CSS-in-JS failed to deliver on any of its promises:
CSS-in-JS was born out of good intentions — modularity, predictability and componentization. But what we got was complexity disguised as progress.
Custom Asidenotes – Eric’s Archived Thoughts
An excellent example of an HTML web component from Eric:
Extend HTML to do things automatically!
He layers on the functionality and styling, considering potential gotchas at every stage. This is resilient web design in action.
Who needs a flying car when you have display: grid
I’m not the only one who’s amazed by how much you can do with just a little CSS these days.
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Underlines and line height
How to make the distance of link underlines proportional to the line height of the text.
Style your underlines
Make your links beautiful and accessible.
CSS snippets
Some styles I re-use when I’m programming with CSS.
Making the new Salter Cane website
A redesign with modern CSS.
Displaying HTML web components
You might want to use `display: contents` …maybe.