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Issue #548

May 10, 2023

Future CSS: Anchor Positioning

Future CSS: Anchor Positioning

Roman Komarov explains how the anchor positioning (currently available under an experimental flag in Chrome Canary) augments absolute positioning by allowing you to use the positions and dimensions of elements other than the element’s usual positioning context.

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Introducing Baseline

Introducing Baseline

Rachel Andrew gives a fantastic introduction to Baseline, a new initiative that will help you see, at a glance, whether a feature or API is safe to use in your site or web applications.

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CSS Weekly on YouTube

▶ Top 6 Chrome DevTools Experiments You Should Start Using Today

▶ Top 6 Chrome DevTools Experiments You Should Start Using Today

A quick overview of fantastic Google Chrome Developer Tools experiments that will help you level up your DevTools productivity.

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VS Code Tips - Enable Sticky Scroll

Find out how to enable sticky scroll in Visual Studio Code to get a better overview of the current part of the code you’re working on, be it a CSS Selector, a function body in JavaScript, or any other logical part of the code in any other language.

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Articles & Tutorials

Rebuilding a featured news section with modern CSS: Vox news

Ahmad Shadeed rethinks how to build the featured news section on Vox.com and explores if modern CSS can be helpful for that.

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How large DOM sizes affect interactivity, and what you can do about it

Jeremy Wagner explains why large DOM sizes have a more significant effect on interactivity than you might think and shares what you can do about it.

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CSS Custom Properties Beyond the :root

Matthias Ott examines the reasons why we’re usually defining global custom properties on :root element.

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▶ CSS Logical Properties: A good use case

Wes Bos shares a practical use case for CSS Logical Properties. (And if you want to learn how logical properties work in detail, check out my In-depth guide on CSS Logical Properties.)

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Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars

Eric Bailey explains that a custom CSS scrollbar may present a significant, unnecessary barrier to accessibility.

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What Have I Been Up To

CSS Stickers!

CSS Stickers!

I’ve been slowly working on the CSS-themed sticker pack. I’ll have something to reveal soon, and if you want to be the first to see the stickers, sign up for the updates.

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Tools

Perfect-Freehand

Perfect-Freehand is a library that lets you draw pressure-sensitive freehand lines.

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Iconoir

Iconoir is a high-quality selection of free icons. Available in SVG, Font, React, React Native, Flutter, Figma, and Framer.

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Inspiration

Dripping (CSS Only)

Dripping (CSS Only)

Amit Sheen created a mind-blowing animation using only CSS.

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Until Next Week

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