Better CSS Shapes Using shape() — Part 4: Close and Move

Styling the space between layout items — the gap — has typically required some clever workarounds. But a new CSS feature changes all that with just a few simple CSS properties that make it easy, yet also flexible, to display styled separators between your layout items.

Being the bad boy I am, I don’t take Tailwind’s default approach to cascade layers as the “best” one. Over a year experimenting with Tailwind and vanilla CSS, I’ve come across what I believe is a better solution.

Blob, Blob, Blob. What’s the most effective way to create blob shapes in CSS? Turns out, as always, there are many. Let’s compare them together!

KelpUI is new library that Chris Ferdinandi is developing, designed to leverage newer CSS features and Web Components. I’ve enjoyed following Chris as he’s published an ongoing series of articles detailing his thought process behind the library, getting deep into his approach. You really get a clear picture of his strategy and I love it.

The CSS if() function enables us to use values conditionally, but what exactly does if() do? Let’s look at a possible real-world use case.