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A thorough but approachable lesson on JavaScript expressions excerpted JavaScript For Everyone, a complete online course offered by our friends at Piccalilli.

An Introduction to JavaScript Expressions originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Honeypots are fields that developers use to prevent spam submissions. They still work in 2025. But you got to set a couple of tricks in place so spambots can’t detect your honeypot field.

Building a Honeypot Field That Works originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Let’s suppose you have N elements with the same animation that should animate sequentially. Modern CSS makes this easy and it works for any number of items!

Sequential linear() Animation With N Elements originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

What can CSS Masonry discussions teach us about the development of new CSS features? What is the CSSWG’s role? What influence do browsers have? What can learn from the way past features evolved?

Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

The TL;DR is that stretch does the same thing as declaring 100%, but ignores padding when looking at the available space.

We Completely Missed width/height: stretch originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

One of our favorites, Andy Clarke, on the one thing keeping the CSS contrast-color() function from true glory:

For my website design, I chose a dark blue background colour (#212E45) and light text (#d3d5da). This

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The thing about contrast-color originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

There are so many creative opportunities for using shape-outside that I’m surprised I see it used so rarely. So, how can you use it to add personality to a design? Here’s how I do it.

Getting Creative With shape-outside originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Naturally, everything looks like code when I'm staring at a blank canvas. That's whether the canvas is paper, a screen, some Figma artboard, or what have you.

Same Idea, Different Paint Brush originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Safari 26 adds:75 new features, 3 deprecations, and 171 other improvements. Here's all the CSS goodness you'll want to know about.

Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

John Rhea challenged himself to recreate the fancy button using the new CSS shape() function sprinkled with animation to get things pretty close.

Recreating Gmail’s Google Gemini Animation originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Starting in Chrome 140, we'll be able to calculate numeric values with mixed data types. Sounds small, but Amit demonstrates how big a deal this is, calling it Computational CSS.

CSS Typed Arithmetic originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

A set of notes taken from Eric Bailey's article about the use of inclusive personas and user research.

On inclusive personas and inclusive user research originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Many of the Sass features we've grown to love have made their way into native CSS in some shape or form. So, should we still use Sass? This is how developer Jeff Bridgforth is thinking about it.

Is it Time to Un-Sass? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

I want to look at practical uses for CSS trigonometric functions. And we'll start with what may be the most popular functions of the "worst" feature: sin() and cos().

The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: cos() and sin() originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

When I first started messing around with code, rounded corners required five background images or an image sprite likely created in Photoshop, so when border-radius came onto the scene, I remember everybody thinking that it was the best thing ever. …

What Can We Actually Do With corner-shape? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.