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Layout. It’s one of those easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master things, like they say about playing bass. Not because it’s innately difficult to, say, place two elements next to each other, but because there are many, many ways to tackle it. And …

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.

The text-box-edge property let us trim the whitespace around text content. It’s used alongside the text-box-trim property to pick whether to remove whitespace above and/or below text.…

If I were starting with CSS today for the very first time, I would first want to spend time understanding writing modes because that’s a great place to wrap your head around direction and document flow. But right after that, …

Masonry in CSS: There’s a new, third option in the debate that combines Flexbox and CSS Grid features into a new system of “Item Flow” properties. The WebKit blog has all the gory details.…

The CSSWG has voted to add a size keyword that’s shorthand for the width and height properties.…

Preethi demonstrates how to make a user interface to group selected items using CSS Grid using two different methods: the auto-fill keyword for stable layouts and the span keyword for flexible arrangements.

After 20 years since Andy Clarke first published his book about Multi-Column Layout in CSS, he's back to encourage a fresh look at CSS columns for enhanced readability and design flexibility.

Tab Atkins-Bittner left a comment in our recent notes on the CSS Masonry that thoroughly (and helpfully) counters the view that masonry would be more powerful as a sub-feature of CSS Grid.…