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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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
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Level Up Your CSS Skills With The :has() Selector — Smashing Magazine
The CSS relational selector :has() allows selecting elements in combinations that were previously impossible without the assistance of JavaScript. We’ll review how to combine :has() with core 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,…
More Real-World Uses for :has()
The :has() pseudo-class is, hands-down, my favorite new CSS feature. I know it is for many of you as well, at least those of you who took the State of CSS
Getting Started With SvelteKit
SvelteKit is the latest of what I'd call next-gen application frameworks. It, of course, scaffolds an application for you, with the file-based routing,
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.
Short Articles
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The CSS behind Figma
A look at some interesting use-cases for CSS flexbox and grid in Figma app.
CSS Infinite 3D Sliders
In this series, we’ve been making image sliders with nothing but HTML and CSS. The idea is that we can use the same markup but different CSS to get wildly
2022 CSS Updates
Review (nearly) eleven exciting additions to CSS that became fully or nearly cross-browser in 2022!
The State of CSS 2022
We thought CSS had already evolved into a pretty formidable language thanks to advancements like Flexbox, Grid, and CSS Variables. But it turns out this wasn't even its final form. Parent selector,…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on CSS.
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…
Typographic Hierarchies — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Alma Hoffmann discusses six basic variables to establish a typographic hierarchy, explains how to look at each differently, and in turn, designs pieces by intentionally modifying each…
Color Formats in CSS
CSS gives us so many options when it comes to expressing color—we can use hex codes, rgb, hsl, and more. Which option should we choose? This turns out to be a surprisingly important decision! In this…
Inside the mind of a frontend developer: Hero section
An exploration of how a frontend developer thinks while building a simple hero section.
2022 Roundup of Web Research
We've started making a tradition of rounding up the latest front-end research at the end of each year. We did it in 2020 and again in 2021. Reports are
Publications
We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in CSS, including:
CSS-Tricks
The official account for http://CSS-Tricks.com, a web design community powered by @DigitalOcean.
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.
Chrome Developers
News & guidance for developers from the Google Chrome Developer Relations team.
CodePen.IO
Build, test, and discover front-end code 💻 Support: http://codepen.io/support
Brad Frost
Design system consultant, web designer, speaker, writer, & musician. Author of Atomic Design. Mastadon: https://mastodon.social/@brad_frost
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