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Chrome 145 introduces the column-height and column-wrap properties, enabling us to wrap the additional content into a new row below, creating a vertical scroll instead of a horizontal scroll.

How we look at the stacking order of our projects, how we choose z-index values, and more importantly, the implications of those choices.

The Chrome team recently prototyped a working solution for fitting text to the width of a container in CSS using a text-grow property.

Bramus:

Chrome 144 features a small change to overscroll-behavior: it now also works on non-scrollable scroll containers. While this change might seem trivial, it fixes an issue developers have been dealing with for ages: prevent a page from

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The TL;DR is that stretch does the same thing as declaring 100%, but ignores padding when looking at the available space.

When I first started messing around with code, rounded corners required five background images or an image sprite likely created in Photoshop, so when border-radius came onto the scene, I remember everybody thinking that it was the best thing ever. …

Everyone has a different opinion which is great because it demonstrates the messy, non-linear craft that is thinking like a front-end developer.

The reading-flow and reading-order proposed CSS properties are designed to specify the source order of HTML elements in the DOM tree, or in simpler terms, how accessibility tools deduce the order of elements. You’d use them to make the focus order of focusable elements match the visual order, as outlined in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2).

I had someone write in with this very legit question. Lea just blogged about how you can get valid CSS properties themselves from the browser. That’s like this.…