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How do you handle the look and feel of a component when an element moves between contexts? In the past we relied on modifier classes or passing down framework props. But combining container style queries with the new advanced attr() capabilities gives us interesting ways to handle our CSS architecture: HTML attributes feeding directly into typed CSS variables, and components adapting themselves purely through CSS.

Modern Web Guidance is a set of skills from the Chrome and Edge teams that feeds expert-written platform guidance straight into your coding agent, with Baseline compatibility data baked in. It's good, but it also has no idea what your design system looks like. This post is about how it works, how I pair it with my own token skills, why fallbacks and polyfills matter, and the honest bits about data it keeps, the licence, and that whole you're just doing Google work for free argument.

It's that time of the year where I do the European thing, taking way too much holiday during summer. Yep, we're talking more than a week, this year even more than three, and to be honest, I kind of need it. How was my first half of the year? There is a lot to be said from a shift in my day job, to CSS, to web standards, to disturbances in balance and frustrations on a golf course.

Between all the fancy features such as container style queries, contrast-color(), gap decorations, corners-shape... there are some features that became baseline available and we forgot about them. They are those little things that make life a bit easier. I wanted to search for the kinds of features that I don’t need on a regular basis, but am happy to know are available. This article is all about the CSS Custom Highlight API, text-indents and math.

Fourteen talks, two days, one city. Color spaces, a browser built from scratch, CSS that runs x86 machine code, a select that took 33 years, and a masonry layout that is finally real. This was CSS Day 2026.

Maybe it's the amount of people from the UK that attended CSS Day this year, maybe I just wanted to use the word bollocks in an article, either way, It's my blog and I write what I want. I write on this thing called the web, which is for everyone and the web can be a really pretty place. Yep, in a world of AI making your half-baked design system we've all seen before, there is certainly a way we can do better. CSS Day showed me that the person orchestrating a Web UI will still triumph the "dude in garage with prompt machine" every time.

It’s not secret that I love a bit of beautiful UI. The web is full of creativity, experiences that we start to miss out from when using AI to look up everything. Finding information for a Metal festival and reading it in a sans-serif black/white screen is not engaging, you lose every bit of feeling, the urge to go jump in the mosh pit. I felt I had to at least try to take a look at ChatGPT apps. Is this the way forward? Some thoughts...

For a long time, if you wanted to style the space between items in a grid or flex layout, you had to fake it. Borders on child elements, extra pseudo-elements, background tricks, extra markup, etc. It worked... until it didn't. Responsive changes could break illusions, it always felt hacky, and in a few cases we'd end up polluting the DOM structure for something purely visual (Which I hate doing). An update that is long overdue, CSS is filling those gaps in our grid systems.

Sometimes you have this one of thing you are proud of, but you don't share it with the world. One of those thing is my color scheme that I use for my blog. I also started to use it in my IDE, and now you can too!