In situ Syntax Highlighting in macOS Applications Like Keynote
If you do code-heavy talks in Keynote and want to syntax highlight the code, this might be for you.
Thoughts From Eric
Things that Eric A. Meyer, CSS expert, writes about on his personal Web site; it s largely Web standards and Web technology, but also various bits of culture, politics, personal observations, and other miscellaneous stuff
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Eighteen
The transition from phantom childhood to phantom adulthood feels like it could be a transition for us as well.
Accessible (I Think) Split-Cell Table Headers
A way to create a diagonally split header cell without mangling accessibility, I hope.
Canvas-ing the Web
A practical use case for rendering HTML+CSS to a canvas, an emerging API being previewed in Chrome.
Targeting by Reference in the Shadow DOM
A new way to allow elements inside a Shadow DOM to be targeted for accessibility or other reasons.
Custom Asidenotes
In which I turn inline asides into robustly enhanced sidenotes with CSS and just a touch of JS.
Parenthetical Asidenotes
In which I turn inline asides into sidenotes, but not in a way anyone should actually use.
Bookmarklet: Load All GitHub Comments (take 2)
In which I update a bookmarklet to load all the comments on super-long GitHub threads.
No, Google Did Not Unilaterally Decide to Kill XSLT
The Web Discourse has been spicy of late, and XSLT is to blame. Well, sort of. It’s complicated.
To Infinity… But Not Beyond!
More explorations of ways to abuse the CSS `infinity` keyword, this time with more than just lengths.
Infinite Pixels
In which I push browser engines to their finite limits using infinite values.
Masonry, Item Flow, and… GULP?
Masonry layout is a difficult thing to do with CSS at present. Item Flow could make it easy.
CSS Naked Day 2025
meyerweb.com goes au naturel, mostly, in observance of the annual CSS Naked Day.
CSS Wish List 2025
Back in 2023, I belatedly jumped on the bandwagon of people posting their CSS wish lists for the coming year. This year I’m doing all that again, less belatedly! (I didn’t do it last year because I couldn’t even. Get it?) I started this post by looking at what I wished for a couple of [ ]
Design for Real Life: Online for Free AND On Sale for Money
Design for Real Life is now available, for free, in its entirety, at dfrlbook.com. And is also for sale!