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Creating Scroll-Based Animations in Full view()

It’s not that hard to do! Preethi shows you how it's really the same old animation you’re used to writing in CSS, only applied on a view timeline instead of a normal timeline.

Preethi on Dec 10, 2025

The Range Syntax Has Come to Container Style Queries and if()

Being able to use the range syntax with container style queries — which we can do starting with Chrome 142 — means that we can compare literal numeric values as well as numeric values tokenized by custom properties or the attr() function.

Daniel Schwarz on Nov 13, 2025

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The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: tan()

Last time, we discussed that, sadly, according to the State of CSS 2025 survey, trigonometric functions are deemed the “Most Hated” CSS feature.…

Juan Diego Rodríguez on Nov 3, 2025

A series of six dits in a single row. Five are the same size and colored dark gray. The fifth item is scaled slightly smaller and colored gold.

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Sequential linear() Animation With N Elements

Let’s suppose you have N elements with the same animation that should animate sequentially. Modern CSS makes this easy and it works for any number of items!

Temani Afif on Oct 15, 2025

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The thing about contrast-color

One of our favorites, Andy Clarke, on the one thing keeping the CSS contrast-color() function from true glory:

For my website design, I chose a dark blue background colour (#212E45) and light text (#d3d5da). This

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Geoff Graham on Oct 8, 2025

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Quick Hit #59

A working draft for CSS Environment Variables is posted. Same concept as var(), but env() is a “global” variable at the document level for values the user agent is privy to.…

Geoff Graham on Sep 25, 2025

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CSS Typed Arithmetic

Starting in Chrome 140, we'll be able to calculate numeric values with mixed data types. Sounds small, but Amit demonstrates how big a deal this is, calling it Computational CSS.