https://frontendmasters.com/courses/pro-css/?utm_source=stateofcss&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=stateofcss2025&utm_content=textlink
Jan 8, 2025 - Use custom properties and the latest responsive design techniques to build and deploy a website from scratch!
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/stop-using-customevent/
A satisfying little rant from Justin Fagnani: Stop Using CustomEvent. One point is that you’re forcing the consumer of the event to know that it’s...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/how-to-add-and-remove-items-from-a-native-css-carousel-with-css/
It's already quite impressive you can build a carousel with no JS at all (in Chrome, for now, anyway) and with some checkbox-hack stuff we can control...
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https://frontendmasters.com/courses/web-components/
May 17, 2022 - Create custom, reusable HTML elements with the Web Components API! Learn to create custom Web Components using JavaScript and the Lit library.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/tag/web-components/
Frontend Masters Boost is a blog about web development. It's written by the team at Frontend Masters, course instructors from the industry, and curated guest...
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https://frontendmasters.com/u/rodrigoantunes/
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/quick-dark-mode-toggles/
All the browsers DevTools have a way of emulating color modes. The are essentially faking the system preference at the application level. Here's where those...
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Achieve your goals in learning front-end web development in JavaScript, Node.js and more.
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Leaders in front-end and software engineering, you'll love learning from the Frontend Masters teachers.
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https://n8d.at/performance-optimized-video-embeds-with-zero-javascript-now-on-frontend-masters/
Feb 5, 2026 - I got published on Frontend Masters! Learn how performance optimized video embeds look like with HTML and CSS only and no Javascript.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/a-person-at-the-other-end/
Code is ephemeral. What works right now might get deleted next month. That is no judgement on the code, it is a statement that code isn’t the value prop, the...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-weird-parts-of-position-sticky/
There are a number of things that can rain on your sticky parade. Maybe it's time to actually understand why.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/youtube-embeds-are-bananas-heavy-and-its-fixable/
Which one makes more sense to use, big and slow or small and fast? Especially with the same appearance and functionality, the youtube-lite component is a...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/perfectly-pointed-tooltips-a-foundation/
The Anchor Positioning API in CSS is very powerful. This is the beginning of a series where we understand it through the perfect use-case: tooltips.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/staggered-animation-with-css-sibling-functions/
The new CSS sibling-index() (and -count()) functions are perfect for staggered timing affects. This goes a little step further staggering both before and after...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/author/stefanbauer/
Frontend Masters Boost is a blog about web development. It's written by the team at Frontend Masters, course instructors from the industry, and curated guest...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/css-counters-in-action/
CSS has counter variables (based on matching selectors) that you can output as formatted content or use in calculations.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/thoughts-on-native-css-mixins/
There are no browser implementations of mixins yet, nor a fleshed out spec. So perhaps now is the best time to try to understand and opine.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/building-a-live-preview-with-eleventy-contentful-and-liquid-templating/
As a part of the marketing team at Heyflow, I collaborate with people who work on the company’s website. Although all team members are technically...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/custom-progress-element-using-the-attr-function/
Now that we're starting to be able to apply types (like `number`) to values of attributes we pull of HTML elements in CSS, doing interesting things with is...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/modern-css-round-out-tabs/
We can use `shape()` to carve away the edges of an element to look like a folder tab. By hand.
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https://frontendmasters.com/courses/webgl-shaders/
Apr 21, 2020 - Go deeper into creative coding and 3D graphics programming using WebGL, ThreeJS, and GLSL. In this course, you'll learn 3D vectors and shader effects.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/tag/video/
Frontend Masters Boost is a blog about web development. It's written by the team at Frontend Masters, course instructors from the industry, and curated guest...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/creating-wavy-circles-with-fancy-animations/
In a previous article, we created flower-like shapes using modern CSS (mask, trigonometric functions, etc). This article is a follow-up where we will create a...
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https://frontendmasters.com/courses/linting-asts/
Jul 11, 2017 - Learn to use Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) to make stylistic code changes, reveal logical problems, and prevent bugs from entering your codebase.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/guest-writing/
Frontend Masters Boost is a blog about web development. It's written by the team at Frontend Masters, course instructors from the industry, and curated guest...
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https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/emma-bostian/
Emma Bostian is an American Software Engineer at Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden. She is an instructor at Frontend Masters and Egghead.io, co-host of the Ladybug...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/creating-flower-shapes-using-css-mask-trigonometric-functions/
Creating unusual shapes is always a fun exercise and a good way to practice your CSS skills. One might argue that SVG is better for this job, but nowadays we...
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https://frontendmasters.com/courses/next-js-v4/
Apr 3, 2025 - Build full-stack React apps with Next.js. Gain a deep understanding of React Server Components and Server Actions. Learn authentication, caching, static vs....
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/tag/details/
Frontend Masters Boost is a blog about web development. It's written by the team at Frontend Masters, course instructors from the industry, and curated guest...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-coyier-css-starter/
A fairly opinionated CSS starter by Chris, following a set of personal principals to guide what is in there and what isn't.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/newfangled-browser-alternatives/
Most folks use one of the big browsers that we've all heard of. But there are more and more niche browsers built upon those big open source engines that...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/you-really-dont-have-to-put-your-css-custom-properties-in-root/
I feel like most usage of global CSS custom property use has the author putting them into a :root selector like: This is just a PSA that you… don’t...
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https://frontendmasters.com/courses/algorithms/
Sep 12, 2022 - The last algorithms course you’ll need to pass tough interview questions that use arrays, lists, trees, graphs, maps, and searching and sorting algorithms.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/more-css-random-learning-through-experiments/
There is quite a bit of interesting design possibility with `random()` coming to CSS. It pairs nicely with animation, particularly animation-composition for...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/perfectly-pointed-tooltips-all-four-sides/
Tooltips are a natural fit for the abilities of Anchor Positioning, which can help place them on *any* side or corner. It does make dealing with the pointer...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/web-components-are-bad-good-and-ok/
There is a meta conversation of “Web Components are very definitely going to be around 10 years from now while any JavaScript framework today will...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/infinite-marquee-animation-using-modern-css/
A row of logos that animate forever perfectly and don't have any duplicated HTML or JavaScript at all is quite a trick. Thanks modern CSS!
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/drawing-a-line-to-connect-elements-with-css-anchor-positioning/
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Anchor Positioning last year, so I thought I would give it a try. I already...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/weve-got-container-queries-now-but-are-we-actually-using-them/
CSS developers got the ultimate dream: container queries. But now that they are here, are we actually reaching for them as much as we thought we would?
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/there-are-a-lot-of-ways-to-break-up-long-tasks-in-javascript/
Alex MacArthur shows us there are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript. Seven ways, in this post. That’s a senior developer thing: knowing...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/feedback-on-masonry-layout/
Jen Simmons posted Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, aka “Masonry” layout over on the WebKit blog the other day and is actively soliciting feedback. Our...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/super-simple-full-bleed-breakout-styles/
Having a width-limited centered column of content is common and good, but what do you do when you need to break out? It's not hard these days, but it does...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/find-a-unicode-character-via-quick-sketch/
There are 155,063 Unicode characters. A lot of that is stuff from other languages, but there is still a large amount of randomly useful characters like arrows...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/how-to-fix-any-bug/
Dan Abramov has an interesting article How to Fix Any Bug where he’s having Claude write the code, but a bug shows up he needs to fix. Claude just...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/creating-flower-shapes-using-clip-path-shape/
Use the `arc` command within the `shape()` function we can draw a line that follows a circle from one point to the next, controlling the direction.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/web-monetization-is-still-inching-along-but-still-too-difficult/
Just a simple link tag in HTML can point to an online wallet to take payments, and a JavaScript API to react to them. But it's (still) early days.
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https://frontendmasters.com/learn/?utm_source=boost&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=booboost_footerst
Achieve your goals in learning front-end web development in JavaScript, Node.js and more.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/scroll-locked-dialogs/
I just wrote about the <dialog> element, with some basic usage and things to watch for. It’s a great addition to the web platform. Here’s...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/how-to-create-3d-images-in-css-with-the-layered-pattern/
Repeat the same content over and over on top of each other, and you can move each of them just a smidge in 3D space creating the illusion of shape.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/basic-dialog-usage-and-gotchas-to-watch-for/
The <dialog> element in HTML is tremendous. We’ve got support across the board now, so using it is a smart plan. Just with basic usage, you get a...
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Frontend Masters Boost is a blog about web development. It's written by the team at Frontend Masters, course instructors from the industry, and curated guest...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/a-color-input-that-also-shows-the-value/
For who-knows-what reason color inputs only show a color swatch, not a string representation of the color. Let's see if we can fix that.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/vite-the-documentary/
I think it’s cool our industry has these high quality documentaries documenting the stories behind some of the transformative tech in what we do. The...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/very-early-playing-with-random-in-css/
(Only Safari Technical Preview!) Awfully cool `random()` is coming in CSS. The design possibilities are quite cool.
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https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/kentcdodds/
Kent C. Dodds is a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he's actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/footnotes-progressively-enhanced-to-popovers/
Michelle Barker's technique for popover footnotes is great. Here we look at ways we could fight the content duplication. There are ups and downs.
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https://frontendmasters.com/courses/css-animations/?utm_source=stateofcss&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=stateofcss2024&utm_content=textlink
Jul 25, 2022 - Learn CSS transitions, animations, custom properties, data attributes, choreography, animation states, layout animations, and reactive animations with a little...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/tag/youtube/
Frontend Masters Boost is a blog about web development. It's written by the team at Frontend Masters, course instructors from the industry, and curated guest...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/opening-a-details-element-from-the-url/
If the #hash in the URL matches the ID of an element *inside* a element, it'll open. No other fancy code required.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/how-keyboard-navigation-works-in-a-css-game/
The navigation in this game works with the arrow keys, which is made possible with scroll driven animations, faked collision detection, and maintaining state...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/perfectly-pointed-tooltips-to-the-corners/
With our foundation in positioning and flipping tooltips with anchors, and making pointer tails, we're going to get extra tricky and point them diagonally.
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https://frontendmasters.com/join/?code=blog20&utm_source=boost&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=the-deep-card-conundrum
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/light-dom-only/
First: the Light DOM is just… the regular DOM. When people talk about native Web Components, the Shadow DOM comes up a lot. I have extremely mixed...
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Create custom, reusable HTML elements with the Web Components API! Learn to create custom Web Components using JavaScript and the Lit library.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/nerdrage/
First I read Nikhil Suresh’s angry rant about AI, then I read Frank M Taylor’s angry rant about front-end development. I agree and disagree with...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-two-button-problem/
When you've got two buttons with two different looks (and no cursor), how do you know which one you're about to activate? You'll need to be careful with the...
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https://frontendmasters.com/courses/firebase/
Aug 10, 2022 - Code an app with real-time updates using Firebase and Firestore. Add security rules, add Firebase authentication, and trigger server code with Cloud Functions.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/inset-shadows-directly-on-img-elements-part-1/
Inset `box-shadow` doesn't work directly on image elements. There are work-arounds, but this SVG filter can do it directly. Don't run! There is powerful stuff...
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https://frontendmasters.com/courses/web-components/?code=blog20&utm_source=boost&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=performance-optimized-video-embeds-with-zero-javascript
Create custom, reusable HTML elements with the Web Components API! Learn to create custom Web Components using JavaScript and the Lit library.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-modern-css-2025-edition/
If you thought 2024 was packed with amazing new CSS, well, you're right. But so is 2025 and it keeps looking bright. Check out our list of the best stuff with...
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https://frontendmasters.com/join/?code=blog20&utm_source=boost&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=performance-optimized-video-embeds-with-zero-javascript
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/capo-js-a-five-minute-web-performance-boost/
You want a quick web performance win at work that’s sure to get you a promotion? Want it to only take five minutes? Then I got you. Capo.js is a tool to get...
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https://frontendmasters.com/courses/web-app-testing/?utm_source=stateofjs&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=stateofjs2024&utm_content=textlink
Apr 2, 2024 - Learn unit, integration, system, E2E testing, mock dependencies, and use Vitest & Playwright for building robust and maintainable web apps!
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https://frontendmasters.com/courses/svg-essentials-animation/?utm_source=stateofcss&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=stateofcss2024&utm_content=textlink
Jan 14, 2019 - Learn how to build and optimize SVG – the scalable graphics format for the web that can achieve impressively small filesizes for fast-loading websites!
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/container-queries-and-units/
Container queries are similar to media queries but allow you set styles based on a particular element’s current size, typically the width. This is super handy...
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/obsessing-over-smooth-radial-gradient-disc-edges/
An underdog media query, resolution queries, comes to the rescue here in defining radial gradients that don't blur or get the jaggies.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/classic-mac-os-system-1-patterns/
Paul Smith made these Classic Mac OS System 1 Patterns, which are super tiny (in size) graphics that work with background-repeat to make old school...
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https://frontendmasters.com/courses/remix/
Sep 26, 2022 - Build static websites and dynamic web apps with Remix. Learn how to fetch data, leverage nested routing, eliminate pending states, and handle errors in Remix.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/numbers-that-fall-scroll-driven-animations-sibling-index/
With view() style scroll-driven animations, it's helpful to think about how you want it to work then tweak the ranges toward that goal.
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https://frontendmasters.com/blog/popover-context-menus-with-anchor-positioning/
A context menu is like a tooltip in that it opens right next to the the thing that opened it. Here, we animate the opening and ensure it opens somewhere where...
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https://frontendmasters.com/courses/getting-started-css-v2/?utm_source=stateofcss&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=stateofcss2025&utm_content=textlink
Jun 18, 2025 - Build a single-page portfolio with CSS! Learn responsive layout techniques and UI design fundamentals as you style navigation, project cards, images, and more....
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