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I’ve seen a handful of recent posts talking about the utility of the :is() relational pseudo-selector. No need to delve into the details other than to say it can help make compound selectors a lot more readable.

:is(section, article, aside, 

It’s possible to combine selectors to share the same set of styles. All we do is separate each selector with a comma, known as chaining selectors.

.selector-1,
.selector-2,
.selector-3 {
  /* We share these styles! 🤗 */
}

.element:hover:has(+ & + *) { /* styles */ }

A really handy recipe from Chris that is a perfect use case for the :has() selector. Say we have a series of card components in a row. And when one card …

A few sirens went off a couple of weeks ago when the CSS Working Group (CSSWG) resolved to add an if() conditional to the CSS Values Module Level 5 specification. It was Lea Verou’s X post that same day that …

/* Case sensitive */
a[href*='css-tricks' s] {}

/* Case insensitive */
a[href*='css-tricks' i] {}

Adding an s makes the selector case-sensitive and i makes it case-insensitive.

I didn’t realize the support for @supports determining selector support was so good! I usually think of @supports as a way to test for property: value pair support. But with the selector() function, we can test for selector support …

I think this is good advice from Silvestar Bistrović:

An enabling selector is what I call a selector that does a job without disabling the particular rule.

The classic example is applying margin to everything, only to have to remove …