Issue #517

Michelle Barker will bring you up to speed with modern CSS layout and demonstrate some creative use cases.

Daniel Schwarz looks at some best practices and examples of incredible article pages to get a better idea of what makes a visually appealing reading experience for long-form articles.

Want to take your UX and front-end skill set to the next level? Join us at An Event Apart Denver this coming October 10–12 for three days of expert sessions on:

• New CSS features
• Design system tooling
• Accessibility
• Responsive Animation
• Global design
• SEO+UX
• And more!

Temani Afif shows how to use CSS clip-path and mask to create fancy grids of images for just about any shape you can imagine.

Lea Verou explores how to create a star rating element.

Addy Osmani explains why you should add fetchpriority="high" to your Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) image to get it to load sooner.

Kilian Valkhof explains how overflow: clip; works.

Manuel Matuzovic reminds you about the importance of the focus outline.

A weekly newsletter covering the world’s most popular code editor, VS Code. Includes tips, tools, extensions, and articles on VS Code, plus some supplementary links on other IDEs and tools.

A small library that gets follower count for Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and Youtube accounts.

A full-featured wrapper around YouTube’s private API.

S. Shahriar created a stunning, interactive demo of delicious pastries with CSS.