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5 CSS Properties You Should Know for Better Text Designs
Includes background-clip for masking backgrounds, vertical-align for aligning elements, box-decoration-mode for consistent edge styling, letter-spacing for spacing control, and text-combine-upright for vertical text layouts.
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dan-webnotes My blog CSS tricks for markdown blogs
writing about my projects, experiments and ideas
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The State of CSS Centering in 2026
Despite the countless number of online resources, it's easy to get confused when trying to center an element. There are documented solutions, but do you really understand why the code you picked works? Let's look at the current state of centering options
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Stack Overflow: When We Stop Asking
It still hits like a ton of bricks to see the steep decline in Stack Overflow questions. What does that mean about learning in our industry?
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Soon We Can Finally Banish JavaScript to the ShadowRealm
The proposed ShadowRealm API introduces a new kind of realm specifically designed for isolation, and only that.
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Selecting a Date Range in CSS
A clever approach for selecting multiple dates on a calendar where the :nth-child()'s
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Alternatives to the !important Keyword
Cascade layers, specificity tricks, smarter ordering, and even some clever selector hacks can often replace !important with something cleaner, more predictable, and far less embarrassing to explain to your future self.
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Abusing Customizable Selects
Let's go over a few demos using the new customizable feature that may be wild, but also give us a great chance to learn new things in CSS.
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International box-sizing Awareness Day (2014)
It's February 1st today, which I've decided to declare International box-sizing Awareness Day. In honor of, you guessed it, the most humble and undersung, yet
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Styling: Search-Text and Other Highlight-Y Pseudo-Elements
The new ::search-text pseudo (Chrome 144) matches are yellow while the current target (::search-text:current) is orange, but ::search-text enables us to change that.
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