We dive again into CSS Pie Charts! This time, Author Antoine Villepreux delivers semantic and flexible charts without a single line of JS.

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Another Stab at the Perfect CSS Pie Chart… Sans JavaScript! originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

The offset-path property in CSS defines a movement path for an element to follow during animation.

This property began life as motion-path. This, and all other related motion-* properties, are being renamed offset-* in the spec. We’re changing …

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offset-path originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

The CSS @custom-media at-rule allows creating aliases for media queries.

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@custom-media originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

The @function at-rule defines CSS custom functions. These custom functions are reusable blocks of CSS that can accept arguments, contain complex logic, and return values based on that logic.

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@function originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

Practical guide on how to reduce drifts, minimize mistakes, maintain context, and improve the quality of AI-generated prototypes. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video course on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.

The CSS ::search-text pseudo-element selects the matching text from your browser's "find in page" feature.

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::search-text originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

In the previous article, I spoke about the why and how to use a Markdown component in Astro.

Here, we’re going to expand on that and help you use Markdown everywhere — regardless of the framework you use. So, …

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Astro Markdown Component Utility for Any Framework originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

Let’s kick off June — and the beginning of summer — with some fresh inspiration! Artists and designers from across the globe once again tickled their creativity to welcome the new month with a new collection of desktop wallpapers. Enjoy!

The old (testing in Safari when you don’t have Safari), the new (::checkmark), the in-between (anchor positioning but with HTML), and more.

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What’s !important #12: Safari Testing, ::checkmark, HTML Anchor Positioning, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

Seventy percent of websites still fail basic WCAG contrast checks in 2025. After years of design system tooling, accessibility linters, and JavaScript libraries, nothing moved the needle. We didn’t need better libraries. We needed better CSS. `contrast-color()` is that better CSS.

Until we get something like ::nth-letter, there are still some really cool text effects we can make from existing CSS features, like letter-spacing, ::first-word and ::first-line.

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Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

This isn’t totally about AI. It’s about technical writing in the age of AI. I have some thoughts on this and I hope it’s helpful to you humans reading.

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Technical Writing in the AI Age originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

Every view-transition-name on a page must be unique. The problem is that every pseudo-element selector in your CSS targets a specific name, so your animation styles explode into an unmanageable wall of selectors.

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Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of Elements originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

There’s a moment in almost every usability session where a participant pauses at the login screen, types something, and glances up: checking whether they’re “doing it right.” That pause is a clear sign. They’ve already clocked that this isn’t a real app, and every data point collected after that moment is filtered through that awareness.

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 today in 2026.

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The State of CSS Centering in 2026 originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.