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The way we write CSS for WordPress themes is in the midst of sweeping changes. I recently shared a technique for adding fluid type support in WordPress by way of theme.json, a new file that WordPress has been pushing …

“A change to overflow on replaced elements in CSS”:

From Chrome 108, the following replaced elements respect the overflow property: img, video and canvas. In earlier versions of Chrome, this property was ignored on these elements.

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Web Sockets, Web Workers, Service Workers… these are terms you may have read or overheard. Maybe not all of them, but likely at least one of them. And even if you have a good handle on front-end development, there’s a …

The Difference Between Web Sockets, Web Workers, and Service Workers originally published on

Every once in a while, the blogging zeitgiest seems to coalesce around a certain topic and it’s like the saved articles in my bookmarks folder are having a conversation. The conversation sitting in there now is all about CSS Gradients …

Some Links About CSS Gradients originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the

This is a continuation of my last article about “Rendering External API Data in WordPress Blocks on the Front End”. In that last one, we learned how to take an external API and integrate it with a block that …

Rendering External API Data in WordPress Blocks on the Back En

The Media Queries Level 4 specification has introduced a new syntax for targeting a range of viewport widths using common mathematical comparison operators, like , >, and =, that make more sense syntactically while writing less code for responsive web design.

The New CSS Media Query Range Syntax originally published on CSS-Tricks,

We’ve spent the last two articles in this three-part series playing with gradients to make really neat image decorations using nothing but the element. In this third and final piece, we are going to explore more techniques using the …

Fancy Image Decorations: Outlines and Complex Animations originally published on

Simon Goellner (@simeydotme)’s collection of Holographic Trading Cards have captured our attention.

Under the hood there is a suite of filter(), background-blend-mode(), mix-blend-mode(), and clip-path() combinations that have been painstaki

The CSS :has() pseudo class is rolling out in many browsers with Chrome and Safari already fully supporting it. It’s often referred to it as “the parent selector” — as in, we can select style a parent element from a …

Creating Animated, Clickable Cards With the :has() Relational Pseudo Class origin

As front-end developers, we’ve wished for a lot of things over the years — ways to center things in CSS, encapsulate styles, set an element’s aspect ratio, get finer-grained control over our colors, select an element based on its children’s …

Is There Too Much CSS Now? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the