CSS ::backdrop now inherits from its originating element

Screenshot of the demo featured in the article. In Chrome 122 the backdrop is light purple because it can access the custom property from the dialog element. If you ever struggled with ::backdrop not having access to custom properties, here’s some good news: As of Chrome 122 – and also in Firefox 120 and soon …

Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine

Nuanced piece by Tero Piirainen on where Tailwind took a good practice, twisted it around, and took it for a run. Use it or don’t, love it or hate it, but this last sentence of the article hits close to home: Learn to write clean HTML and CSS and stay relevant for years to come. …

Style Recalculation Secrets They Don’t Want You To Know | Patrick Brosset | CSS Day 2023

This talk by Patrick Brosset is one of my favorite talks from this year’s CSS Day Conference. How do browsers actually recalculate styles when webpages change? Can the way you write CSS impact the speed of the recalculation process? In this talk, we’ll go through the details of how browser engines react to DOM changes …