What Can You Put in a CSS Variable? / Coder’s Block

A reminder that the contens of custom properties don’t have to be valid property values:

From a syntax perspective, CSS variables are “extremely permissive”.

What Can You Put in a CSS Variable? / Coder’s Block

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CSS Form Control Styling Level 1

This looks like a really interesting proposal for allowing developers more control over styling inputs. Based on the work being done the customisable select element, it starts with a declaration of appearance: base.

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Anchor position tool

This is a great little helper in understanding anchor positioning in CSS.

Chrome-only for now.

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una.im | Updates to the customizable select API

It’s great to see the evolution of HTML happening in response to real use-cases—the turbo-charging of the select element just gets better and better!

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New CSS that can actually be used in 2024 | Thomasorus

Logical properties, container queries, :has, :is, :where, min(), max(), clamp(), nesting, cascade layers, subgrid, and more.

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You might want to use `display: contents` …maybe.

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Let me hear your blocky talk.

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CSS logical properties here, they just aren’t evenly distributed yet.