Many of you — perhaps most of you — have been sitting on the sidelines while WordPress and WP Engine trade legal attacks on one another. It’s been widely covered as we watch it unfold in the open; ironically, in a sense. These things can take twists and turns and it doesn’t help that this just so happens to be an emotionally charged topic in certain circles. WordPress is still the leading CMS after all these years and by a long shot. Many developers make their livi..

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A new tool from Eric Meyer, Brian Kardell, and Stephanie Stimac backed with Igalia’s support. Brian announced it on his blog, as did Eric, describing it like this: What BCD Watch does is, it grabs releases of the Browser Compatibility Data (BCD) repository that underpins the support tables on MDN and services like caniuse.com.  It then analyzes what’s changed since the previous release. Every Monday, BCD Watch produces two reports. The Weekly Changes Re..

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The <select> element is a fairly straightforward concept: focus on it to reveal a set of <option>s that can be selected as the input’s value. That’s a great pattern and I’m not suggesting we change it. That said, I do enjoy poking at things and found an interesting way to turn a <select> into a dial of sorts — where options are selected by scrolling them into position, not totally unlike a combination lock or iOS date pickers. Anyone who..

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Mixing colors in CSS is pretty much a solved deal, thanks to the more recent color-mix() function as it gains support. Pass in two color values — any two color values at all — and optionally set the proportions. background-color: color-mix(#000 30%, #fff 70%); We also have the relative color syntax that can manipulate colors from one color space to another and modify them from there. The preeminent use case being a way to add opacity to color values that don’t sup..

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I was looking over an older article Patrick Brosset penned for us introducing <selectmenu>, a new proposal at the time for a more style-able cousin to <select>. From there, I clicked the linked-up <selectmenu> explainer and got… this: OK, link rot is a thing and happens all the time. Perhaps the site needs a little URL designing? But no, it’s not that at all. I searched a bit and found Jared White’s post saying that <selectmenu> is no more..

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Seeing a lot more headlines decrying JavaScript and pumping up PHP. Always interesting to see which direction the front-end zeitgeist is leaning. Quick Hit #21 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter...

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For the past two months, all my livelihood has gone towards reading, researching, understanding, writing, and editing about Anchor Positioning, and with many Almanac entries published and a full Guide guide on the way, I thought I was ready to tie a bow on it all and call it done. I know that Anchor Positioning is still new and settling in. The speed at which it’s moved, though, is amazing. And there’s more and more coming from the CSSWG! That all said, I was perusing ..

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Having fun with Bramus’ new Caniuse CLI tool. This’ll save lots of trips to the Caniuse site! Quick Hit #20 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter...

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Two possible syntaxes for CSS masonry, one draft specification, and you get to share your opinions. Quick Hit #19 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter...

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Getting right to it: the CSS-Tricks Almanac got a big refresh this week! I’m guessing you’re already familiar with this giant ol’ section of CSS-Tricks called the Almanac. This is where we publish references for CSS selectors and properties. That’s actually all we’ve published in there since the beginning of time… or at least since 2009 when most of the original work on it took place. That might as well be the beginning of time in web years. We might even call ..

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