CSS-Tricks Revamps Newsletter After Four-Year Hiatus
CSS-Tricks is relaunching its newsletter on November 10th, featuring hand-written and curated news, after a four-year hiatus. The final issue of What’s !important is now available, packed with new content and features.
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Key points from CSS-Tricks’s report
- The CSS-Tricks newsletter is relaunching on November 10th after a four-year hiatus.
- The final issue of What’s !important is packed with new content and features, including guides and demos.
- New tools and features are available, including a color contrast checker and a gradient visualizer.
- Two new gradient types are on the way, with explanations of how they work and what their CSS code might look like.
- The new web platform features and updates include new CSS features and browser support
The final issue of What’s !important on CSS-Tricks.com has been published, but the good news is that it’s coming back in an expanded form as the CSS-Tricks newsletter. According to CSS-Tricks, the newsletter officially kicks off on November 10th, after a way-too-long four-year hiatus.
The new newsletter will feature hand-written and hand-curated news, links, and editorials that can only be found there. CSS-Tricks reported that readers can join the party by getting on the list, which promises to deliver top-notch content from the best front-end authors.
The final issue of What’s !important is packed with some new stuff, including a GTA 6 scroll effects walkthrough by Kevin Powell, which showcases fancy scrolling effects. Rockstar has created these effects over 13 years, and they can be seen on the GTA 6 website, although it doesn't work in Firefox.
Other features in the final issue include a guide on how to build a scrollspy with modern CSS by Mojtaba Seyedi, and some stunning random() demos by Brecht De Ruyte. Lea Verou also explained the different ways of implementing icons on the web, including exciting CSS features of the future.
Kilian Valkhof suggested a universal pseudo-selector, which would select pseudo-elements, and Declan Chidlow discussed new HTML and CSS features that are useful for design systems. Adam Argyle shared a CSS trick to make textareas adapt to their content, and there's also a guide on creating wavy dividers using random() and shape().
New tools and features are also available, including a color contrast checker called This hue shall pass, and a gradient visualizer called Gradient Layers. Two new gradient types are also on the way, with Josh Tumath explaining how they work and what their CSS code might look like.
The new web platform features and updates include Chrome 155 margin-trim, symbols(), and text-decoration-skip-spaces, as well as Firefox 158 JPEG XL and CSS typed arithmetic. Safari 27.1 also features a whole bunch of CSS features for the iPhone Duo.
Questions and answers
When is the CSS-Tricks newsletter relaunching?
The CSS-Tricks newsletter is relaunching on November 10th.
What can readers expect from the new newsletter?
Readers can expect hand-written and hand-curated news, links, and editorials that can only be found in the newsletter.
What are some of the new features and tools available?
New tools and features include a color contrast checker, a gradient visualizer, and two new gradient types.
