What’s !important #5: Lazy-loading iframes, Repeating corner-shape Backgrounds, and More
This issue of What’s !important is dedicated to our friends in the UK (aka me), who are…
CSS Bar Charts Using Modern Functions
New CSS features can sometimes make it easier and more efficient to code designs we already knew…
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…
What’s !important #3: Popover Context Menus, @scope, New Web Platform Features, and More
The developer community hasn’t wasted any time kicking off 2026 with some really great articles, demos, and…
What’s !important #2: Conditional View Transitions, CSS/SVG Text Effects, the Best of CSS Bluesky, and More
2026 is almost upon us. I know we’re all itching to see the clock strike midnight (cue…
What’s !important #1: Advent Calendars, CSS Wrapped, Web Platform Updates, and More
Welcome to the first ever What’s !important, a roundup of the best CSS and web development news from…
Responsive List of Avatars Using Modern CSS (Part 1)
A list of rounded images that slightly overlap each other is a classic web design pattern. You…
Scrollytelling on Steroids With Scroll-State Queries
Read you a story? What fun would that be? I’ve got a better idea: let’s tell a…
Should We Even Have :closed?
For the past few months, I’ve been writing a lot of entries on pseudo-selectors in CSS, like ::picker() or ::checkmark….
Headings: Semantics, Fluidity, and Styling — Oh My!
A few links about headings that I’ve had stored under my top hat. “Page headings don’t belong…
We Completely Missed width/height: stretch
The stretch keyword, which you can use with width and height (as well as min-width, max-width, min-height,…
Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26
A couple of days ago, the Apple team released Safari 26.0! Is it a big deal? I…