CSS Gap Decorations: Divider Lines Without the Border Hacks
Chrome and Edge 149 let column-rule and the new row-rule draw lines in grid and flexbox gaps, so you can delete the border and pseudo-elemen...
Oct 20, 2026
4 min
CSS Container Style Queries: Let the Parent Set the Theme
Container style queries hit Baseline in May 2026. Here's how to let a parent's custom property drive its children's styles, plus the one got...
Oct 12, 2026
4 min
CSS reading-flow: Fix the Tab Order Your Layout Broke
Grid and flexbox let you rearrange a layout without touching the DOM, which quietly breaks keyboard navigation. The reading-flow and reading...
Sep 19, 2026
3 min
CSS scroll-state() Queries: Styling Stuck, Snapped, and Scrollable
Sticky headers, snapped carousel slides, and scroll shadows have all been JavaScript jobs for a decade. Scroll-state container queries hand ...
Sep 7, 2026
3 min
Form-Associated Custom Elements: Web Components That Belong in a Form
Custom elements can be real form controls. Here is how formAssociated, ElementInternals, and setValidity retire the hidden-input hack for go...
Aug 29, 2026
3 min
CSS text-box-trim: The End of Fudging Vertical Padding
Buttons that look bottom-heavy at padding: 12px aren't your fault, they're half-leading. text-box-trim finally lets CSS cut that invisible s...
Aug 14, 2026
3 min
FormatSizer: Stop Doing CSS Unit Math in Your Head
FormatSizer displays CSS unit conversions directly beside your code as visual annotations, helping you compare px, rem, em, pt, viewport uni...
Aug 12, 2026
5 min
Rebuilding domenicotenace.dev: How Pure Astro and CSS Reminded Me That Simple Is Better 🌟
Overview Hey everyone 👋 I recently did something that felt almost rebellious in today's web development landscape: I completely refactored ...
Aug 5, 2026
6 min
A honeypot field made every Arabic page on my site render blank
left: -9999px is the classic way to hide a spam honeypot. In an RTL document it turns into ten thousand pixels of scrollable canvas, and hea...
Aug 3, 2026
2 min