What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, Fixing text-stroke, and More
Plus, how to style skeleton UIs, how to enable diagonal scrolling, how images can overflow themselves, and yet, still more. Basically, how to do a lot of really cool (CSS) stuff.
Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong
The warning is correct. And the recommended fixes you’ve probably seen are wrong. Here’s what you can do instead to properly fix the issue.
Animating CSS border-image
Border images are an overlooked feature. One neat fact is that border image slices can run across entire borders on an element, and animating it creates beautiful effects.
SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10
Smashing Magazine’s in-person conferences are back and returning to the wonderful city of Freiburg next month, September 7–10.
Using and Styling the Dialog Element
There’s a lot of nuance to the <dialog> element, a seemingly little piece of web architecture. I’ve got some notes from digging into it.