Best of CSS — 2025
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Isaac de Andrade·23w
The Lost Art of Programming Offline
Programming without internet access reveals gaps in knowledge and forces reliance on local resources like man pages, system header files, and existing code. This constraint-based approach helps identify mastered domains versus weak areas, makes learning more efficient and personal, and strengthens fundamental skills by eliminating dependency on Stack Overflow, documentation sites, and AI assistants.
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WebDev·1y
I Finally built a Grid Playground with Awesome Animations
Flexbox Labs now includes a Grid Playground with new features like grid container and item properties, grid item placement control, and grid line manipulation. This beta release aims to help users master CSS grids while still offering the original Flexbox Labs features. Upcoming updates include grid line numbers, CSS box shadows, gradients, border-radius, and CSS transforms. Feedback and support are welcomed.
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gitconnected·1y
Frontend Developer Roadmap 2025: The Complete Guide
This guide provides a comprehensive roadmap for aspiring frontend developers in 2025, covering essential skills such as understanding web basics, setting up a coding workspace, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, version control with Git and GitHub, and learning popular frameworks like React. It also includes bonus skills like advanced JavaScript techniques, TypeScript, automated testing, and hosting options, all designed to help developers stand out.
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Dev Tools·46w
Pattern Craft: Beautiful backgrounds for your next big thing
Pattern Craft is a new tool offering a modern collection of background patterns, gradients, and glow effects designed for landing pages, portfolios, and web applications. The tool provides professional-grade backgrounds that can be easily copied and pasted into projects, with built-in support for modern CSS and Tailwind CSS for seamless integration.
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OpenSouls·1y
Top UI libraries with copy-paste components for developers
A curated list of free UI libraries that leverage Tailwind CSS for styling, featuring multiple open-source options. Ideal for developers looking for ready-to-use, copy-paste components. Contributions for additional libraries are welcome to keep the list updated.
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Prismic·1y
40 CSS Background Effects to Enhance Your Website
Explore 40 CSS background effects to enhance your website's design. From gradient-based designs to dynamic, motion-driven animations, learn how various effects can add depth and interactivity to your site. The post includes examples of scrolling effects, SVG animations, background patterns, and more. Additionally, discover useful tools and generators to help simplify the creation of stunning backgrounds.
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The New Stack·31w
CSS Finally Gets Inline Conditional Logic With New if() Function
CSS now supports inline conditional logic through the new if() function in the 2025 W3C specification. This function allows developers to set different property values based on conditional tests using style queries, media queries, or feature queries. The syntax follows JavaScript's if-else pattern and can be used for tasks like theme switching, responsive design, and feature detection. Currently, Chrome and Edge support the function, while Safari and Firefox are still implementing it. This marks the first time CSS offers inline logic processing without requiring separate code blocks.
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Ahmad Shadeed·1y
CSS Relative Colors
CSS relative colors enable dynamic color generation directly in CSS without the need for pre-processors like Sass. This post explores how to apply opacity, create lighter or darker variations of a color, and use different color spaces (hsl and oklch) with practical examples. The article includes detailed explanations, code snippets, and interactive demos to help readers understand and implement this powerful feature in their projects.
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RUBYLAND·51w
10 Modern CSS Features You Want to Use
Modern CSS has evolved significantly with new features that reduce the need for preprocessors and frameworks. Key additions include mathematical functions (min, max, clamp) for responsive sizing, container queries for component-based responsive design, text-wrap properties for better typography, @starting-style for animating from display:none, :has() selector for parent styling based on children, simplified media query ranges, light-dark() function for theme switching, color-scheme property for system UI theming, native nesting support, new viewport units (dvh, svh, lvh) for mobile browsers, and @layer for managing CSS specificity conflicts.
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Community Picks·1y
Animations CSS Generator
CSS animations allow developers to create dynamic, eye-catching visual effects without using third-party tools or scripting. This guide covers the basics of CSS animations, including keyframes, essential properties, and how they compare to JavaScript animations. CSS animations are simple to implement, performant due to hardware acceleration, and are more responsive and easier to maintain than JavaScript animations. For more complex or interactive animations, JavaScript is recommended.
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developedbyed·1y
The Power of SVG Animations
Learn how to enhance your SVG animation skills by creating a dynamic sun-to-moon toggle with glowing effects using a single SVG. The guide covers integrating this effect from scratch using React and Figma, optimizing SVG path attributes, and adding staggered animations with motion.react. The tutorial provides step-by-step instructions and code snippets to make the task approachable and fun.
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Web Tools Weekly·1y
Top 30 Tools of 2024
Discover the top 30 tools of 2024, which include various CSS and JavaScript libraries, frameworks, and UI components. Learn about solutions for improving sleep quality by neutralizing harmful EMFs, and explore how to support the newsletter creator through various means. Notable tools featured include Beer CSS, VTable, Tini, and Batman-Comic.CSS.
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Hacker News·36w
Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
Apple has developed a private CSS property called `-apple-visual-effect` that enables Liquid Glass effects in web content within iOS apps. The property supports various system materials including the new glass effects from iOS 26, but requires enabling a private WKPreferences setting called `useSystemAppearance`. While this feature can't be used in App Store apps due to its private nature, it suggests Apple is using webviews with native UI integration in their own applications without users realizing it.
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Una Kravets·24w
CSS Wrapped 2025
Chrome 135 introduces Invoker Commands, allowing buttons to perform actions on dialogs and popovers declaratively using commandfor and command attributes, eliminating the need for JavaScript onclick handlers. The feature supports built-in commands like show-modal, close, and toggle-popover that mirror their JavaScript counterparts, plus custom commands prefixed with double dashes that can be handled via the toggle event. A polyfill is available for broader browser support.
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tailwindcss·1y
Tailwind UI is now Tailwind Plus
Tailwind UI has been rebranded as Tailwind Plus, maintaining its one-time purchase model and lifetime access. Existing Tailwind UI All-Access license holders are automatically upgraded to Tailwind Plus. The new brand aims to provide enhanced features such as Tailwind Play accounts, custom editor themes, alternative color palettes, and more. Tailwind Plus also focuses on building a stronger community and offering early access to beta documentation and events.
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I Made 12 CSS Tools to Make Life Easier for Developers
Discover a collection of 12 handy CSS tools on NotchTools designed to simplify everyday CSS tasks. These tools generate code for effects like glassmorphism, underlines, text glow, box shadows, and more. NotchTools also provides utilities like CSS minification, beautification, and color conversions, all aimed at enhancing developer workflows.
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Flavio Copes·37w
The CSS Handbook, 2025 edition
Flavio Copes has released an updated 2025 edition of his CSS Handbook, covering modern CSS features like container queries, cascade layers, CSS nesting, and new color spaces. The comprehensive guide spans from fundamentals like selectors and the box model to advanced topics including CSS Grid, responsive design, animations, and best practices for maintainable code.
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Balancing Text In CSS
Text balancing in CSS is explored with features like `text-wrap: balance` and `text-wrap: pretty` to ensure even text distribution. These techniques are helpful in addressing challenges with dynamic content and varying browser behavior. Practical examples and demos show how text balance can enhance readability in different scenarios.
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LogRocket·1y
How to use CSS variables like a pro
CSS variables, also known as custom properties, allow developers to reuse values throughout a stylesheet, helping to write clean and efficient code. This tutorial provides a detailed guide on using CSS variables with practical examples, including dynamic changes with JavaScript, responsive design adjustments, and theme toggling. Learn how to define CSS variables globally or locally, apply fallback values, and harness cascading rules and specificities for styling flexibility.
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JavaScript Mastery·1y
Tailwind CSS v4 Full Course 2025 | Master Tailwind in One Hour
Master Tailwind CSS with this comprehensive course that teaches utility-first styling, responsive layouts, dark mode, and custom themes. Learn how to structure projects correctly, understand best practices, and optimize your workflow. Gain access to quizzes, interactive exercises, and in-depth lessons on the JS Mastery Pro platform, where you will build a complete, professional landing page.
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daisyUI 5 is here: What’s new and what to expect
daisyUI 5 represents a complete rewrite of the popular Tailwind CSS component library, offering significant performance improvements with 75% smaller bundle size and zero dependencies. The major changes include moving configuration from JavaScript to CSS files, introducing a powerful new theming engine with readable CSS variables and oklch color functions, and adding new components like Validator and List. The update also brings new style modifiers such as btn-soft and btn-dash, plus global effect variables for depth and noise. Migration involves updating package versions, moving plugin configuration to CSS, and updating some class names like card-compact to card-sm.
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Collections·24wfreeCodeCamp Launches New JavaScript and Responsive Web Design Certifications
freeCodeCamp launched three new certification programs covering JavaScript, Python, and Responsive Web Design. Each certification includes hundreds of hours of interactive content, five hands-on projects, and a 50-question proctored exam with anti-cheating measures. The programs cover core concepts like DOM manipulation and asynchronous JavaScript, Python data structures and algorithms, and responsive design with CSS Flexbox and Grid. All certifications are free, permanently valid, and don't require webcam or ID verification.
