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What's !important #12: Safari Testing, ::checkmark, HTML Anchor Positioning, and More

CSS-Tricks' latest roundup covers cross-platform Safari testing, the new ::checkmark pseudo-element, anchor positioning workarounds using data attributes and advanced attr(), and notes Firefox 151 bringing container style queries to Baseline status.

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Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing

CSS-Tricks demonstrates several text-reveal techniques using negative letter-spacing, transparent color, and transitions — no JavaScript required. The patterns combine existing CSS features like ::first-letter and the ch unit to simulate per-character targeting without a ::nth-letter selector.

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Technical Writing in the AI Age

CSS-Tricks editor Geoff Graham reflects on sharply declining traffic across front-end publications and makes a case for why human-written technical content still matters — and how it should adapt.

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Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of Elements

Part 2 of CSS-Tricks' series on cross-document view transitions tackles the real scaling problem: going from one named element to hundreds without your CSS collapsing into an unmaintainable wall of selectors. The key is view-transition-class, which decouples animation styling from per-element identity.

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The State of CSS Centering in 2026

CSS-Tricks revisits CSS centering with a comprehensive look at modern approaches, cataloging roughly 100 ways to center elements and arguing that understanding alignment mechanics matters more than memorizing snippets. The article also highlights newer CSS features like text-box for trimming font-related whitespace.

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Stack Overflow: When We Stop Asking

CSS-Tricks examines Stack Overflow's dramatic decline from over 200,000 questions per month at its 2014 peak to roughly 3,000 in 2026, attributing it to aggressive moderation culture and, more recently, the rise of LLMs.

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Cross-Document View Transitions: The Gotchas Nobody Mentions

CSS-Tricks walks through the real, current way to enable cross-document view transitions on multi-page sites — replacing a deprecated meta tag with a CSS at-rule — and digs into silent failure modes like the 4-second timeout and aspect ratio warping.

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What's !important #11: 3D Voxel Scenes, Flying Focus, CSS Syntaxes, and More

CSS-Tricks' latest roundup covers Heerich.js for 3D voxel scenes, the of <selector> syntax reaching Baseline, range syntax nuances for container queries, scroll-driven animations, and platform updates from Chrome 148 and Safari 26.5.

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Computing and Displaying Discounted Prices in CSS

CSS-Tricks walks through calculating and displaying discounted prices entirely in CSS using the upgraded attr() function, CSS math functions like mod() and round(), and custom counters — no JavaScript required.

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Soon We Can Finally Banish JavaScript to the ShadowRealm

CSS-Tricks breaks down the TC39 ShadowRealm proposal, which introduces a new kind of JavaScript realm designed for code isolation without spawning a separate thread. The article explains what realms are, how they differ from Web Workers, and why a same-thread sandbox is useful.