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Issue #598

October 23, 2024

CSS min() All The Things

CSS min() All The Things

Victor Ayomipo experiments with the CSS min() function, exploring its flexibility with different units to determine if it is the be-all, end-all for responsiveness.

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▶ This New CSS Property Just Solved Animating to Height Auto

▶ This New CSS Property Just Solved Animating to Height Auto

Kevin Powell explains how to use interpolate-size property to animate to height: auto.

(I also shared guides on both interpolate-size and calc-size(), just in case you missed them.)

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▶ Quick Tip: Easily Deal With Layout Shifts Caused by Scrollbars

▶ Quick Tip: Easily Deal With Layout Shifts Caused by Scrollbars

Find out how to prevent layout shifts when scrollbars are hidden/shown using the scrollbar-gutter CSS property.

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Articles & Tutorials

Smarter than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content

Ahmad Alfy explains how text fragments allow you to link directly to parts of the text on web pages and how to style those highlights.

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Fun with Custom Cursors

Ryan Finni shows two ways to change the default mouse cursor appearance.

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Solving Background Overflow With Inherited Border Radii

Zell Liew shows a simple and effective solution for a case when elements bleed out of the border radius of the parent element.

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How should "selectedoption" work?

Jake Archibald asks for feedback on customizable select element.

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What Makes a Font Accessible? A Designer’s Guide

Andrée Lange outlines the key characteristics of accessible fonts and shares best practices for selecting and combining typefaces that ensure user readability.

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Tools

State of CSS 2024 Results

The State of CSS 2024 results are in—this year’s survey reached 9,704 developers worldwide, giving an excellent outlook on CSS.

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Typography and Opentype Default Stylesheet (TODS)

A stylesheet that you can use as a starting point for sensible typographic defaults for prose (a column of text), making particular use of the font features provided by OpenType.

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Inspiration

Flower of Hearts - CSS Doodle

Flower of Hearts - CSS Doodle

Aragakey created a wonderful demo using CSS Doodle, a web component for drawing patterns with CSS.

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Until Next Week

If you want to understand where your CSS skillset currently is, I suggest you check out the State of CSS 2024 Survey. Even if you didn’t take it, going through the results might give you an outline of what’s new, what people are using, and what might be a good idea to learn.

Incidentally, if you’re subscribed to CSS Weekly and check out the newsletter at least occasionally, you’re probably in a much better position than most developers.

Stay humble, stay curious, and keep learning.
Zoran Jambor


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