CSSence

Matthias Zöchling wrote on August 5, 2026 at 06:53 Nifty!

Sebastian Hädrich wrote on July 25, 2026 at 02:29 Is there a way to indicate “[sic]” to a #screenreader without it reading the brackets verbatim?

Next week would have been be my fifteenth Twitter anniversary, but that ain’t gonna happen, and it’s anyhow not a thing.

I’ve traveled to Graz to for once *not* speak at the Frontend Graz meetup, and instead be a regular attendee who can simply enjoy the show.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on June 13, 2026 at 13:02 Speed is how you avoid reckoning.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on June 5, 2026 at 08:13 🚀 New article on gap decorations (coming soon) in CSS.

This is the third blog post of my Tales from the hospital miniseries.

Manuel Matuzović wrote on June 2, 2026 at 06:51 I should probably do a 2026 update of my HTML boilerplate post.

@piccalil.li wrote on April 23, 2026 at 12:03 Mat Marquis has waited 14 years to write this article.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on April 14, 2026 at 09:00 Most of your screen time isn’t leisure.

Sara Joy wrote on April 13, 2026 at 09:36 Quick front end question: How often have you seen elaborate mid-sentence CSS flex and gap or padding styling within React apps, when all that’s missing is what I’m calling a “React space”: {' '}?

While I knew that Unicode has Variation Selectors (VS), I had no idea that CSS has a font-variant-emoji property.

I dedided to stay in glass territory: After last year’s use of the two Hourglass emojis I’m moving on to sunglasses.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on April 9, 2026 at 07:22 So long stylesheets, see you again tomorrow.

Alex Trost wrote on March 4, 2026 at 14:56 Can we all agree that this named CSS color is a poor representation of the color brown?

When I write a blog post on this site, the workflow to get it live is quite simple: I commit the post on my main branch—aptly named “main”—and push it to GitHub.

@mayank.co wrote on February 27, 2026 at 02:01 this year i'm going to write at least one print stylesheet 🖨️ (i've never written one before!)

This is the second blog post of my Tales from the hospital miniseries.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on February 24, 2026 at 08:05 First order of business: Read »Continvoucly Morged Value« by @matthiasott.com.

This is the first blog post of my Tales from the hospital miniseries.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on January 16, 2026 at 18:44 What a week!

Manuel Matuzović wrote on January 14, 2026 at 12:55 Which cool (new) thing in CSS did you discover recently that I should check out, too?

Before I start, let me get two things out of the way: In this article I’m not going to include the admittedly cool browsh, because it only works by utilizing Firefox under the hood.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on January 2, 2026 at 12:24 Having read “Justified Text: Better Than Expected” by @tylersticka.com et al., I learned about hyphenate-limit-chars, and in a nanosecond it jumped to the top of my list of CSS properties that I’d like to

Matthias Zöchling wrote on January 1, 2026 at 10:28 Me: Style queries are a game changer!

Matthias Zöchling wrote on December 21, 2025 at 08:32 The HTMHell Advent Calendar never disappoints, but this year contained an article that came out of left field, given that I’ve never used MathML so far. 🔗 A11Y considerations in math on the web Matthias

It’s no coincidence that my online identity starts with CSS: I get paid to make HTML look nice.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on December 4, 2025 at 08:57 I have a list of favorite websites that I revisit when I need inspiration, but these are the three I keep circling back to the most: @ethanmarcotte.com for design & layout @piccalil.li for rhythm & typo…

You probably know that the @charset declaration can only be placed at the very beginning of a stylesheet.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on November 9, 2025 at 08:26 Sure, I enjoy reading about anchor positioning and view transitions as much as the next guy, but it’s ever so refreshing to read about down-to-earth CSS stuff: 🔗 “Fixing baselines” Initially I misinterp…

New design coming soon?

I watched Kevin Powell go through five super useful CSS properties that don’t get enough attention.

Kilian Valkhof wrote on October 2, 2025 at 13:54 Market research!

Matthias Zöchling wrote on October 22, 2025 at 13:07 Triple link alert!

Sorry about the title, I guess it won’t create an instant rapport with you, dear reader.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on October 12, 2025 at 17:07 Tired: html { overflow-y: scroll; } Wired: html { scrollbar-gutter: stable; } Nice little #CSS gem from @zachleat.com. 🔗 “A tiny bit-o-CSS for Stable Scrollbar Gutters” The feature detection is the cher…

When I wrote about the six (eight) levels of dark mode, I briefly mentioned that the CSS color-scheme declaration can be set anywhere, not just on the root element.

Kevin Powell wrote on October 2, 2025 at 13:54 Do you have any smaller/under-the-radar CSS sites/people that you follow?

Scott Kellum wrote on July 29, 2025 at 15:29 The cheap and easy way to get a full-bleed background on an element: background-color: var(--background); box-shadow: 33vw 0 0 0 var(--background), -33vw 0 0 0 var(--background); Wenzel Massag wrote on July 29,…

Last year I realized that the Camera emoji comes in two flavors.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on June 30, 2025 at 05:56 I use Linux personally and Windows at work, but in both cases my previous OS used to be MacOS.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on June 17, 2025 at 08:23 I just read “Can accessibility be whimsical?”

I went to Graz with a talk named “CSS has come full circle” in my backpack, that I presented at the seventh CSS-in-Graz meetup.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on May 27, 2025 at 16:19 Everything—everything—that comes out of these “AI” platforms is a “hallucination.”

Inspired by a few lines of CSS from Adam Argyle, I forked his CodePen where he randomly added a color and a delay in HTML, to be then applied in CSS.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on April 2, 2025 at 08:51 That’s what I call artificial malnutrition.

Ah, the size of space!

Matthias Zöchling wrote on March 28, 2025 at 06:57 Really looking forward to this year’s #CSSNakedDay.

Matthias Zöchling wrote on March 23, 2025 at 19:47 This one slipped under my radar: Providing alt text for pseudo-elements works in all browsers, eventually there’ll be no more need for a fallback: a::after { /* content: "↗"; 👋 */ content: "↗" / " (opens

Matthias Zöchling wrote on March 17, 2025 at 09:55 Sure, @matuzo@front-end.social is doing a lot of great work, but his discovery that the use of list-style-type: "" to remove indicators from lists keeps semantics is of utmost importance: 🔗 Removing list…