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Animated Background Stripes That Transition on Hover
How often to do you reach for the CSS background-size property? If you’re like me — and probably lots
Adding Box Shadows to WordPress Blocks and Elements
I stumbled across this tweet from Ana Segota looking for a way to add a CSS box-shadow to a button’s
CSS is OK, I guess.
Nothing but ear-to-ear smiles as I was watching this video from @quayjn on YouTube. (No actual name i
Does WWW still belong in URLs?
For years, a small pedantry war has been raging in our address bars. In one corner are brands like Go
CSS Infinite and Circular Rotating Image Slider
Image sliders (also called carousels) are everywhere. There are a lot of CSS tricks to create the com
Digging Deeper Into Container Style Queries
I wrote up some early thoughts on container style queries a little while back. It’s still early
Using The New Constrained Layout In WordPress Block Themes
One of the main goals of the WordPress Site Editor (and, yes, that is now the “official” name) is to
More Than “Slapping Paint on a Website”
I’m a sucker for anything about front-end job titles.Anselm Hannemann:CSS evolved and we’re bey
Newer Things to Know About Good Ol’ HTML Lists
HTML lists are boring. They don’t do much, so we don’t really think about them despite how widely use
Apple Messages & Color Contrast
Well, color me this! I was griping to myself last night about just how gosh dang hard it is to read t
WordPress Developer Blog
Well, hey check this out. Looks like there is a brand spankin’ new blog over at WordPress.org all abo
Taming the Cascade With BEM and Modern CSS Selectors
BEM. Like seemingly all techniques in the world of front-end development, writing CSS in a BEM format
Making Static Noise From a Weird CSS Gradient Bug
👋 The demos in this article experiment with a non-standard bug related to CSS gradients and s
Creating a Settings UI for a Custom WordPress Block
So far, we’ve covered how to work with data from an external API in a custom WordPress block. We walk
DigitalOcean Welcomes Cloudways to the Family
Hey folks! If you’ve been keeping up with the latest DigitalOcean news, you might be aware that
CSS Wizardry
Speeding Up Async Snippets
If you’ve been a web developer for any reasonable amount of time, you’ve morelikely than not come acr
Critical CSS? Not So Fast!
I have long held very strong opinions about the Critical CSS pattern. In theory,in a perfect world, w
Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence
A thing I see developers do time and time again is make performance-facingchanges to their sites and
Optimising Largest Contentful Paint
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is my favourite Core WebVital. It’s the easiest to optimise, and it’s
Measuring Network Performance in Mobile Safari
So far this year, all but one of my clients have been concerned about Google’supcoming Web Vitalsupda
Site-Speed Topography
A couple of years ago, my first few days on a new web performance project werealways slow going. So m
The Fastest Google Fonts
For the most part, web fonts nowadays are faster than ever. With morestandardised FOUT/FOIT behaviour
Real-World Effectiveness of Brotli
One of the more fundamental rules of building fast websites is to optimise yourassets, and where text
Performance Budgets, Pragmatically
One of the key tools that performance engineers have at their disposal is thePerformance Budget: it h
Lazy Pre-Browsing with Prefetch
I’m working with a client at the moment who, unfortunately, has a blocking thirdparty stylesheet that
W3 CSS Blog
Minutes Telecon 2022-11-16
There is still discussion necessary on issue #7306 (Move the definition of “display mode”
Minutes Telecon 2022-11-09
Upcoming meeting updates: Next long call is scheduled on Nov 30th. Please reply to the email on the p
Minutes Telecon 2022-11-02
The next long-form meeting will be November 30th starting a few hours before the normal meeting time.
Minutes Extended Telecon 2022-10-26
Publications Resolved: Advance css-box-3 to PR Resolved: Accept the above changes Statement about fon
Minutes Telecon 2022-10-19
There will be an extended meeting on Wed Oct 26, 2022 from 7:00am – 10:00am PT Resolved: Close no cha
CSS Values and Units Level 4 WD Updated
The CSS Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of CSS Values and Units Level 4. This sp
Minutes Telecon 2022-10-12
There will be an extended meeting on Wed Oct 26, 2022 from 7:00am – 10:00am PT Resolved: Incorporate
Minutes Telecon 2022-10-05
Resolved: Always ignore transforms on backgrounds of the root element (Issue #6683: Are the rules for
Minutes Telecon 2022-09-28
Resolved: Draft reading-order (minus source value) into css-display-4 ED (Issue #7387: Providing auth
Updated WD of CSS Containment L2
The CSS Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of the CSS Containment Module Level 2. T