Gaps rule!

Matthias Zöchling wrote on June 5, 2026 at 08:13

🚀 New article on gap decorations (coming soon) in CSS. I have a small obsession with clean layout lines, and this is the first time it feels easy to draw them without polluting the markup. Goes through the new properties, a playground, and some experiments… 👾

🔗 “CSS is filling the gaps with rules”

Great article by @utilitybend@front-end.social on styling grid/flex gaps. Makes me wonder if this should become a thing in tables as well.

Sure, we could override display: table-row to get there. (Though at some point we lost the table role in certain browsers when we did that, I hope that’s no longer the case.)