Make Any File a Template Using This Hidden macOS Tool

Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file’s parent application to open a copy of it by default, ensuring that the original file remains unedited.


Make Any File a Template Using This Hidden macOS Tool originally published on

12h | CSS tricks
Organizing Design System Component Patterns With CSS Cascade Layers

I enjoy organizing code and find cascade layers a fantastic way to organize code explicitly as the cascade looks at it. The neat part is, that as much as it helps with "top-level" organization, cascade layers can be nested, which allows us to author more precise styles based on the cascade and inheritance.


Organizing Design System Component Patterns With CS

16h | CSS tricks
Container query units: cqi and cqb

A little gem from Kevin Powell's "HTML & CSS Tip of the Week" website, reminding us that using container queries opens up container query units for sizing things based on the size of the queried container.


Container query units: cqi and cqb originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the

5d | CSS tricks
Baseline Status in a WordPress Block

The steps for how I took the Baseline Status web component and made it into a WordPress block that can be used on any page of post.


Baseline Status in a WordPress Block originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the

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Compiling CSS With Vite and Lightning CSS

Are partials the only thing keeping you writing CSS in Sass? With a little configuration, it's possible to compile partial CSS files without a Sass dependency. Ryan Trimble has the details.


Compiling CSS With Vite and Lightning CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the

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Keeping the page interactive while a View Transition is running

When using View Transitions you’ll notice the page becomes unresponsive to clicks while a View Transition is running. […] This happens because of the ::view-transition pseudo element – the one that contains all animated snapshots – gets overlayed on top


10d | CSS tricks
Chrome 133 Goodies

Did you see the release notes for Chrome 133? It's currently in beta, but the Chrome team has been publishing a slew of new articles with pretty incredible demos that are tough to ignore. I figured I'd round those up in one place.


Chrome 133 Goodies originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the

11d | CSS tricks
The Mistakes of CSS

All of the things that the CSS Working Group would change if they had a time-traveling Delorean to go back and do things over.


The Mistakes of CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean fami

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What on Earth is the `types` Descriptor in View Transitions?

The @view-transition at-rule has two descriptions. One is the commonly used navigation descriptor. The second is types, the lesser-known of the two, and one that probably envies how much attention navigation gets. But read on to learn why we need types and how it opens up new possibilities for custom view transitions when navigating between pages.


13d | CSS tricks
Revisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout

After 20 years since Andy Clarke first published his book about Multi-Column Layout in CSS, he's back to encourage a fresh look at CSS columns for enhanced readability and design flexibility.


Revisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the

15d | CSS tricks

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