Despite what’s been a sleepy couple of weeks for new Web Platform Features, we have an issue of What’s !important that’s prrrretty jam-packed. The web community had a lot to say, it seems, so fasten your seatbelts!

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A curated roundup of recent CSS news and tricks covering: @keyframes animations accepting string names, colon vs equals in CSS style queries, declarative dialogs using invoker commands, middle-truncating text with CSS, managing color variables with relative color syntax, customizing lists with modern CSS (symbols(), @counter-style), the new :heading pseudo-class in Safari TP 237 for typescales, the upcoming border-shape property introduced by Una Kravets, the modern.css snippet library, Kevin Powell nearing 1M YouTube subscribers, Firefox 148 shipping shape(), and Interop 2026 targets announced by all major browsers.

What’s !important #6: :heading, border-shape, Truncating Text From the Middle, and More

Declarative <dialog> s (and an updated .visually-hidden )

How to manage color variables with relative color syntax

modern.css wants you to stop writing CSS like it’s 2015

Kevin Powell also has some CSS snippets for you