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Why should you use a semantic <button> instead of a generic <div>? Accessibility, right? By how exactly does it help accessibility?

Explaining the Accessible Benefits of Using Semantic HTML Elements originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

Last time, we discussed that, sadly, according to the State of CSS 2025 survey, trigonometric functions are deemed the “Most Hated” CSS feature.

That shocked me. I may have even been a little offended, being a math nerd and …

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

On mobile, people can lose their sense of context and can’t easily tell where a section begins or ends. Good small-screen design can help orient them using a variety of techniques.

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

Can we use the <details> element as the foundation for a tabbed interface? Why yes, we can!

Pure CSS Tabs With Details, Grid, and Subgrid originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

When we change an element’s intrinsic sizing, its children are affected, too. This is something we can use to our advantage.

CSS Animations That Leverage the Parent-Child Relationship originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.

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.