Practical web development tips, snippets, and template tricks you can use today.
A guide to the four CSS-native techniques replacing JavaScript animation libraries: view transitions, scroll-driven animation, @starting-style, and @property.
A working map of :has(), cascade layers, @scope and @when/@else, and how they change the way you write CSS in 2026.
Analyzes the performance penalty of using loading="lazy" on above-the-fold images. Demonstrates how to properly combine eager loading for hero images with lazy loading for off-screen content.
Not every image on a page deserves the same loading priority from the browser's default heuristics. Here's when to mark the hero image high, and when deprioritizing the rest helps LCP more.
attr(data-color color, #333) feeding straight into background-color sounds like it already ships, but as of early 2026 it's spec-only. Here's what attr() actually does today, and what's coming.
height: auto was never a number the browser could interpolate toward, which is exactly why it never animated at all. These two features finally give the engine something concrete to target.
Three separate min-resolution media query blocks plus an @supports check for WebP used to be needed just to keep background images in sync. image-set() resolves all of that on its own now.
role='search' bolted onto a plain form is one more attribute developers reliably forget to add. The new <search> element makes that semantic landmark the default instead of an opt-in extra.
Grid and Flexbox both expect their items to be direct children of the container, but semantic HTML forces wrapper elements in between. display: contents removes the wrapper's box, not its markup.
Rounding a fluid width to the nearest multiple of 8px used to require a resize listener writing values back to a custom property. These math functions run natively at layout time instead.