Ready to get your hands dirty with the shape() function? @css has a bunch of examples and exercises, starting with lines and arcs, to help you master this new feature.

https://css-tricks.com/better-css-shapes-using-shape-part-1-lines-and-arcs/

@chriskirknielsen @piccalilli Yeah! Andy’s article links up a 12-year old article on the topic, too. It’s high time that gets solved.

I love this. Andy Bell over at @piccalilli has a clever way to apply styles to image alt text, but only when the image fails to load.

https://css-tricks.com/you-can-style-alt-text-like-any-other-text/

I love using @css's new CSS path-to-shape converter to see shape() commands used in a bunch of different contexts.

https://css-tricks.com/svg-to-css-shape-converter/

A reader wrote-in asking how to make a complex list-counting system for a legal document. We ain't no lawyers, but we can style the crap out of lists with CSS!

https://css-tricks.com/a-readers-question-on-nested-lists/

The Email Markup Consortium released its 2025 study on the accessibility in HTML emails, and the TL;DR is not totally dissimilar from what we heard from WebAIM’s annual web report.

https://css-tricks.com/html-email-accessibility-report-2025/

Scroll-Driven Animations Inside a CSS Carousel, by @geoff (@csstricks):

https://css-tricks.com/scroll-driven-animations-inside-a-css-carousel/

#css #animations #scrolling #carousels

Anchor Positioning Just Don’t Care About Source Order, by @geoff (@csstricks):

https://css-tricks.com/anchor-positioning-just-dont-care-about-source-order/

#css #anchorpositioning #html

@flogehring @jensimmons 🧡

Scroll-Driven Animations Inside a CSS Carousel

https://css-tricks.com/scroll-driven-animations-inside-a-css-carousel/

What it looks like to troubleshoot one of those impossible issues that turns out to be something totally else you never thought of.

https://css-tricks.com/this-isnt-supposed-to-happen-troubleshooting-the-impossible/

It's incredibly tough to find a CMS for static sites that is geared for non-techies, but @mrtrimble found one he's pretty stoked about.

https://css-tricks.com/using-pages-cms-for-static-site-content-management/

What does it look like to refactor your own code? John Rhea picks apart an old CSS animation he wrote and walks through the thought process of optimizing it.

https://css-tricks.com/orbital-mechanics-or-how-i-optimized-a-css-keyframes-animation/

Why is Nobody Using the hwb() Color Function?

https://css-tricks.com/why-is-nobody-using-the-hwb-color-function/

Yet another way to pull off the classic CSS scroll shadows trick — this time using masks in combination with scroll-driven animation.

https://css-tricks.com/modern-scroll-shadows-using-scroll-driven-animations/

Jotting down a few notes on the new CSS shape() function and the commands it supports. It's incredible how dense this stuff is, but it's still a lot easier to grok than working with SVG paths by hand.

https://css-tricks.com/css-shape-commands/

The State of Devs survey is now open to participation, and unlike previous surveys it covers everything except code: career, workplace, but also health, hobbies, and more.

https://css-tricks.com/state-of-devs-a-survey-for-every-developer/

The article revisiting image maps that you didn't know you needed, courtesy of @malarkey.

https://css-tricks.com/revisiting-image-maps/

The second episode of this little podcast I'm doing with Brad Frost called Open Up just published. Think of it as a touch of "Dear Abby" for the web design and development crowd where we take questions from folks about the "human" side of work.

https://css-tricks.com/open-up-with-brad-frost-episode-2/

The fact that anchor positioning eschews HTML source order is so CSS-y because it's another separation of concerns between content and presentation.

https://css-tricks.com/anchor-positioning-just-dont-care-about-source-order/