Making a Real-Time Clock With a Conic Gradient Face

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.

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.