Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the web's core styling language. For web developers, It's one of the quickest technologies to get started with, but one of the hardest to master. Follow Una Kravets and Bramus Van Damme, Developer Advocates from Google, who gleefully breakdown complex aspects of CSS into digestible episodes covering everything from accessibility to z-index.
Una and Bramus recap the season! They share some new updates and re-visit some of their favorite tips and tricks.Season 6 covered inline if() statements and custom functions, scroll state queries, carousel APIs, view transitions updates, anchor positioning, command invokers and interest invokers, customizable select, and a whole bunch of other CSS functions! Resources: Same-document view…
In this episode of The CSS Podcast, Una and Bramus cover a bunch of CSS functions from comparison functions to tree counting functions, the random function, and more. Resources: min(), max(), and clamp() Web Dev article → https://goo.gle/4nvMthu Article by Ahmad Shadeed → https://goo.gle/3JvPznI Comparison functions → https://goo.gle/3JmbJsx sibling-count() and sibling-index() →…
In this episode of The CSS Podcast, Una and Bramus cover building customizable select menus. Have you ever had to build a dropdown menu where you want to do something as simple as change the color, or add little flag icons? You know how hard it can be! Discover how the web platform is solving this once and for all with the new customizable select API. Resources: Customizable select demos →…
In this episode of The CSS Podcast, we're diving into the power of invoker commands! Discover how the command and commandfor attributes allow you to declaratively open dialogs and show popovers. We'll explore standard commands and then jump into creating your own custom commands for more complex interactions. To close off, we're covering the concept of "interest invokers" and how the new CSS…
Welcome back to The CSS Podcast! Una and Bramus dive into CSS anchor positioning, a powerful new API that revolutionizes how developers handle dynamic UI element placement. Learn how to create interactive tooltips, popovers, and menus directly in CSS, eliminating the need for complex JavaScript. Resources: CSS anchor positioning → https://goo.gle/3KvYYeZ Anchor position tool →…
View Transitions have been around for a little while. This episode of The CSS Podcast covers some of the recent additions and changes since we last covered this in episode 89. Resources: What's new in view transitions (2025 update) → https://goo.gle/47k7RAb Same-document view transitions have become Baseline Newly available → https://goo.gle/4otGpqx Learn View Transitions → https://goo.gle/42dNH9l…
Welcome back to The CSS Podcast! We're diving into a series of powerful scroll APIs that enable you to build custom, interactive carousels entirely with CSS, eliminating the need for JavaScript. These APIs, which also power customizable select elements, unlock even more innovative scroll-based experiences Resources: Carousels with CSS → https://goo.gle/46PES79 ::scroll-marker →…
Una and Bramus dive into the latest advancements in CSS with state-based container queries. Learn how to create responsive and dynamic user experiences by querying the scroll state of UI elements, including 'stuck,' 'snapped,' and 'scrollable' states. Discover practical examples and techniques to replace complex JavaScript with declarative CSS, making your web development more efficient and…
Welcome back to the new season of the CSS Podcast, where Una and Bramus are your guides, your cohosts, and your CSS best friends. In this episode we dig into two very powerful new CSS features: inline conditionals with the if() function, and custom functions. Resources: CSS if() function specification → https://goo.gle/3IBChWo Article on if() by Una → https://goo.gle/4nUxIp2 Article on if() by Lea…
Una and Adam recap the season! They share their favorite features, stories, and use cases. Season 5 covered popovers, dialogs, top layers, trig functions, color functions, :has() tricks, balanced text wrapping, linear() easing, nesting, anchoring, state queries, view transitions, and scroll driven animation. What a year for CSS! Una Kravets (co-host) Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Making the web…