Issue #558

August 30, 2023

Four New CSS Features for Smooth Entry and Exit Animations

Una Kravets and Joey Arhar outline new CSS capabilities that enable smooth transitioning of discrete animations.

A Future of Themes with CSS Container Style Queries

Christopher Kirk-Nielsen explores different ways to implement themes on a website with style queries.

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Articles & Tutorials

A Few Interesting Ways To Use CSS Shadows For More Than Depth

Preethi experiments with different shadows — two CSS properties and a filter — to make interesting hover effects, different text styles, and even casting shadows on other shadows.

Bézier Curves

Richard Ekwonye explains the logic behind Bézier Curves used in CSS animations and visual elements.

Scroll-Based 3D Cards

Kushagra Gour shows how you can simulate cards with 3D depth based on scrolling using the newly arrived scroll-based animations.

CSS Selectors: A Visual Guide

Sébastien Noël created a visual guide to the most popular CSS selectors.

Tabs Are Objectively Better Than Spaces

Chris Ferdinandi outlines two reasons why tabs are better than spaces. (And I did a short video on the subject a while ago showing the difference between tabs and spaces in MacOS VoiceOver.)

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