Issue #631

The Chrome CSS/UI DevRel team created another edition of CSS Wrapped, showcasing 22 powerful new CSS features that landed in Chrome in 2025.

Jen Simmons, Elika Etemad, and Brandon Stewart introduce the future of masonry layouts on the web.

Backlog is a project management tool built for teams who want structure—without the overwhelm.

If Jira feels heavy or complex, Backlog offers a cleaner, more intuitive experience with all the essentials: kanban boards, Gantt charts, issues, sprints, docs, version control, and more.

A brief guide outlining the difference between overflow: hidden and overflow: clip, along with practical use cases when you’ll find overflow: clip life-saving.

Find out how overscroll-behavior: contain is changing, how to use the scrollbar-gutter CSS property, what the new text-grow property does, how to analyze your CSS, and more.

Amit Sheen demonstrates how to create a stunning 3D card with layers of depth.

Bramus Van Damme explains that in Chrome 145+, 100vw will automatically subtract the size of the (vertical) scrollbar from it if you have forced the html element to always show a vertical scrollbar (using overflow[-y]: scroll) or if you reserve space for it (using scrollbar-gutter: stable).

Una Kravets gives an introduction to the new scroll-state query feature that lets you apply styles based on the last scroll direction of your user’s scroll.

Yoav Weiss shows a clever, creative way to ship only critical/necessary CSS for each page type (home, search, etc.) while avoiding duplicate code in the CSS bundles.

Eric Bailey shows how to create a user interface pattern with a large clickable element (such as a card) and clickable controls within that card.

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Web Platform Features Explorer is an online tool that lets you discover new features and APIs and stay up to date with changes.

React-Beautiful-Color is a flexible and beautiful color picker for React built with compound components for maximum customization.

I’ve created a pure CSS animation that showcases the power of the corner-shape CSS property and its superellipse() function.