How to migrate from Webflow to WooCommerce
Your business has outgrown Webflow. Whether it’s the integration limitations, the lack of data control, or the…
Front-End Fools: Top 10 April Fools’ UI Pranks of All Time
April Fools’ Day pranks on the web imply that we’re not trying to fool each other every…
Sniffing Out the CSS Olfactive API
A lot has happened in CSS in the last few years, but there’s nothing we needed less…
SEO Here to Stay, Say Marketing Leaders
Marketing leaders expect SEO and AI search to grow side by side, at least in the short…
4 Reasons That Make Tailwind Great for Building Layouts
When I talk about layouts, I’m referring to how you place items on a page. The CSS…
Abusing Customizable Selects
Web browsers ship new features all the time, but what fun is it if we can’t build…
The Different Ways to Select in CSS
Temani Afif recently did this exercise and I thought I’d build off of it. Some of these…
Popover API or Dialog API: Which to Choose?
Choosing between Popover API and Dialog API is difficult because they seem to do the same job,…
AI Bots Don’t Need Markdown Pages
Markdown is a lightweight, text-only language easily readable by both humans and machines. One of the newest…
What’s !important #6: :heading, border-shape, Truncating Text From the Middle, and More
Despite what’s been a sleepy couple of weeks for new Web Platform Features, we have an issue…
Yet Another Way to Center an (Absolute) Element
sibling-index() and sibling-count() functions. There are lots of recent examples like this. Still, there is one little…
An Exploit … in CSS?!
Ok, take a deep breath. We’ll have some fun understanding this vulnerability once you make sure your…
Loading Smarter: SVG vs. Raster Loaders in Modern Web Design
I got this interesting question in an SVG workshop: “What is the performance difference between an SVG…
Potentially Coming to a Browser :near() You
Just before we wrapped up 2025, I saw this proposal for :near(), a pseudo-class that would match…
Distinguishing “Components” and “Utilities” in Tailwind
Here’s a really quick tip. You can think of Tailwind utilities as components — because you can…
Distinguishing “Components” and “Utilities” in Tailwind
Here’s a really quick tip. You can think of Tailwind utilities as components — because you can…
Spiral Scrollytelling in CSS With sibling-index()
Confession time: I’ve read about the performance benefits of scroll-timeline(), but when I see an impressive JavaScript…
Interop 2026
Interop 2026 is formally a thing. So, you know all of those wild, new CSS features we’re…
Trying to Make the Perfect Pie Chart in CSS
Speaking of charts… When was the last time you had to use a pie chart? If you…
No-Hassle Visual Studio Code Theming: Building an Extension
Years ago, when I read Sarah Drasner’s article on creating a VS Code theme, I silently thought…
What’s !important #4: Videos & View Transitions, Named Media Queries, How Browsers Work, and More
Neither Chrome, Safari, nor Firefox have shipped new features in the last couple of weeks, but fear…
AI Product Discovery Drives Brand Traffic
Phillip Jackson’s media company, Future Commerce, focuses on trends and developments in business. The company surveyed U.S….
Styling ::search-text and Other Highlight-y Pseudo-Elements
Chrome 144 recently shipped ::search-text, which is now one of several highlight-related pseudo-elements. This one selects find-in-page…
There is No Need to Trap Focus on a Dialog Element
I was building a Modal component that uses the <dialog> element’s showModal method. While testing the component,…