20+ Best Articles on CSS
The most useful articles and videos on CSS from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 CSS Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on CSS by Refind users in 2023 so far.
Videos
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Stop fighting with CSS positioning
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5 super useful CSS properties that don't get enough attention
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mask-image lets you do some really cool stuff
Add some creativity to your designs with mask-image!🔗 Links✅ Browser support: https://caniuse.com/?search=mask-image⌚ Timestamps00:00 - Introduction00:30 - ...
CSS is OK
See the codepens for the visual effects made for this video: https://codepen.io/equational/pen/OJZrvrehttps://codepen.io/equational/pen/jOxXKmpCSS = cascadin...
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How to use SVG as a Placeholder, and Other Image Loading Techniques
I’m passionate about image performance optimisation and making images load fast on the web. One of the most interesting areas of…
How To Create Advanced Animations With CSS — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Yosra Emad explains how to create a rollercoaster path that a ball follows using cubic beziers and CSS transitions. You’ll also learn how the cubic-bezier function in CSS works in…
How to Center in CSS
Centering in CSS is a pain in the ass. This is a code generator that consolidates them and gives you the code you need for each situation.
Trending
These links are currently making the rounds on CSS on Refind.
Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars
While a custom CSS scrollbar may seem flashy and fun, consider that it may present a significant, unnecessary barrier to access…
Rebuilding a featured news section with modern CSS: Vox news
Rebuilding Vox News featured section with modern CSS.
CSS Blend Modes
What are CSS blend modes. How to use background-blend-mode & mix-blend-mode. Interactive examples.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on CSS—all under 10 minutes.
Creating a Clock with the New CSS sin() and cos() Trigonometry Functions
CSS trigonometry functions are here! Well, they are if you’re using the latest versions of Firefox and Safari, that is. Having this sort of mathematical power
My favourite 3 lines of CSS
In Every Layout, we wrote about The Stack. It’s a marriage of Heydon’s Lobotomised Owl selector and my method of managing Flow and Rhythm with CSS Custom Properties. .stack > * + * { margin-bloc…
Do we need CSS flex-wrap detection?
A look at why we need flex wrapping detection in CSS.
The truth about CSS selector performance
If you're a web developer, you may have already heard that some CSS selectors are faster than others. And you're probably hoping to find a list of the better selectors to use in this article. Well,…
3D in CSS
How to create a 3D space using CSS. How to use the CSS perspective property. How to translate & rotate an element in 3D space using CSS. Use cases for the CSS perspective property.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on CSS.
Easing curves, and better CSS transitions and animations
The difference between a smooth, sleek animation and one that feels bland and generic is often in the easing curve. Let's look at what easing curves are and how they work in CSS, before diving into…
How To Build A Magazine Layout With CSS Grid Areas — Smashing Magazine
Web development, especially what you can do with CSS, has become increasingly complex. With the added capabilities of CSS Grid, it is now possible to achieve layouts that look like they were laid out…
An Interactive Guide to Flexbox
When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed…
On Container Queries, Responsive Images, and JPEG-XL
With the news that CSS Container Queries have shipped in nearly all stable, modern browsers, it’s time to revisit responsive images and ask how they fit in a container query world. Are we on the right…
Conditional CSS
CSS is condtional in many ways. In this article, I will go over a few CSS features that we use every day, and show you how conditional they are.
Publications
We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in CSS, including:
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
An online magazine for designers and web developers. Questions? We've got your back: @SmashingSupport, @SmashingConf. Curated by Iris, Vitaly and the team.
CodePen.IO
Build, test, and discover front-end code 💻 Support: http://codepen.io/support
Chrome Developers
News & guidance for developers from the Google Chrome Developer Relations team.
Brad Frost
Design system consultant, web designer, speaker, writer, musician, & artist. Author of Atomic Design. Mastadon: http://mastodon.social/@brad_frost
Lea Verou
Mastodon: @leaverou@front-end.social / 🟦sky: @lea.verou.me @w3ctag, @csswg, HCI PhD @MIT_CSAIL, @csssecretsbook author, started @prismjs & many other tools
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