In this episode of The CSS Podcast, Una and Bramus cover building customizable select menus. Have you ever had to build a dropdown menu where you want to do something as simple as change the color, or add little flag icons? You know how hard it can be! Discover how the web platform is solving this once and for all with the new customizable select API.

Resources: Customizable select demos → https://goo.gle/43G5ruv Una Kravets (co-host) Bluesky | Twitter | YouTube | Website Making the web more colorful @googlechrome Bramus Van Damme (co-host) Bluesky | Mastodon | YouTube | Website @GoogleChrome CSS DevRel; @CSSWG; Scuba Diver 🤿

In this episode of The CSS Podcast, we're diving into the power of invoker commands! Discover how the command and commandfor attributes allow you to declaratively open dialogs and show popovers. We'll explore standard commands and then jump into creating your own custom commands for more complex interactions. To close off, we're covering the concept of "interest invokers" and how the new CSS properties and selectors they bring.

Resources:

Introducing command and commandfor blogpost → https://goo.gle/4ozmEy4

Authors Cards (Interest Invokers Demo) → https://goo.gle/42LU3x2

Invoker Commands Explainer → https://goo.gle/4o0DC8n

Interest Invokers Explainer → https://goo.gle/4nfyZGi

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Welcome back to The CSS Podcast! Una and Bramus dive into CSS anchor positioning, a powerful new API that revolutionizes how developers handle dynamic UI element placement. Learn how to create interactive tooltips, popovers, and menus directly in CSS, eliminating the need for complex JavaScript.

Resources:

CSS anchor positioning → https://goo.gle/3KvYYeZ

Anchor position tool → https://goo.gle/4gOYooL

Follow-the-leader pattern with CSS anchor positioning → https://goo.gle/46s0kQD

Anchor queries - Reposition tether arrow → https://goo.gle/42fXtI1

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View Transitions have been around for a little while. This episode of The CSS Podcast covers some of the recent additions and changes since we last covered this in episode 89.

Resources: What's new in view transitions (2025 update) → https://goo.gle/47k7RAb

Same-document view transitions have become Baseline Newly available → https://goo.gle/4otGpqx

Learn View Transitions → https://goo.gle/42dNH9l

View Transitions Demos → https://goo.gle/42dNH9l

Nested View Transition Groups → https://goo.gle/3KtoVfi

Scoped View Transitions → https://goo.gle/3VHdovd

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Welcome back to The CSS Podcast! We're diving into a series of powerful scroll APIs that enable you to build custom, interactive carousels entirely with CSS, eliminating the need for JavaScript. These APIs, which also power customizable select elements, unlock even more innovative scroll-based experiences

Resources: Carousels with CSS → https://goo.gle/46PES79 ::scroll-marker → https://goo.gle/4mEd3o8 CSS Carousel Gallery → https://goo.gle/46Odsyp Carousel Configurator → https://goo.gle/46KEir4

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Bramus Van Damme (co-host) Bluesky | Mastodon | YouTube | Website@GoogleChrome CSS DevRel; @CSSWG; Scuba Diver 🤿

Una and Bramus dive into the latest advancements in CSS with state-based container queries. Learn how to create responsive and dynamic user experiences by querying the scroll state of UI elements, including 'stuck,' 'snapped,' and 'scrollable' states. Discover practical examples and techniques to replace complex JavaScript with declarative CSS, making your web development more efficient and powerful.

Resources: Scroll state queries → https://goo.gle/4mQDQ0M Scroll-state-container → https://goo.gle/487y4nI Anchor queries → https://goo.gle/3IBDVaw Episode 59 → https://goo.gle/3KB7M3z

Una Kravets (co-host) Bluesky | Twitter | YouTube | WebsiteMaking the web more colorful @googlechrome

Bramus Van Damme (co-host) Bluesky | Mastodon | YouTube | Website@GoogleChrome CSS DevRel; @CSSWG; Scuba Diver 🤿

Welcome back to the new season of the CSS Podcast, where Una and Bramus are your guides, your cohosts, and your CSS best friends. In this episode we dig into two very powerful new CSS features: inline conditionals with the if() function, and custom functions.

Resources: CSS if() function specification → https://goo.gle/3IBChWo Article on if() by Una → https://goo.gle/4nUxIp2 Article on if() by Lea Verou → https://goo.gle/4nt2UvS CSS mixins specification → https://goo.gle/48H8SEH Article on @function by Una → https://goo.gle/48H99rd Article on @function and if() by Bramus → https://goo.gle/46qPbzy The CSS Space Toggle by Chris Coyier → https://goo.gle/4874qio

Una Kravets (co-host) Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Making the web more colorful ✨🎨 Web DevRel @googlechrome Unicorn face host of @toolsday & Designing in the Browser 🎬

Bramus Van Damme (co-host) Bluesky | Mastodon | YouTube | Website@GoogleChrome CSS DevRel; @CSSWG; Scuba Diver 🤿

Una and Adam recap the season! They share their favorite features, stories, and use cases. Season 5 covered popovers, dialogs, top layers, trig functions, color functions, :has() tricks, balanced text wrapping, linear() easing, nesting, anchoring, state queries, view transitions, and scroll driven animation. What a year for CSS!

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In this episode our esteemed guest returns! This time to help us grok Scroll Driven Animation. Learn all about scroll(), view(), animation-timeline, timeline-scope, animation-range, and more. Power those animations with off-the-main-thread CSS scroll animation powers.

Resources:

Bramus's Demos:

All mentioned Demos + Tools + Video Course + DevTools Extension link → https://goo.gle/3Uw31up

Video Course direct link: https://goo.gle/learn-scroll-driven-animations

Adam's Demos:

scroll() the hue wheel → https://goo.gle/4emb3NO

CSS scroll() feature time warp → https://goo.gle/4exH3yv

view() long bento list → https://goo.gle/4gtcCLx

view() scrolly telling → https://goo.gle/3TAq2vA

view() iOS-like app switcher → https://goo.gle/4etvCI6

view() variable font animation → https://goo.gle/4e8eJmd

Una Kravets (co-host) Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Making the web more colorful ✨🎨 Web DevRel @googlechrome Unicorn face host of @toolsday & Designing in the Browser 🎬

Adam Argyle (co-host) Twitter | Instagram | YouTube @GoogleChrome CSS DevRel; @CSSWG; VisBug maker; punk; CSS/JS/UX addict; 💀🤘

In this episode Una and Adam bring on an esteemed guest Bramus, who brings us deep knowledge on View Transitions. These are easy to get started with but difficult to master, but not with Bramus here to teach us. He'll be covering introductory to advanced API features and a big bag of examples and demos.

Resources: Developer Documentation → https://goo.gle/4aHY7zo

Quick intro to View Transitions (Google I/O 2023 video) → https://goo.gle/3ZieRLp

What's new in View Transitions? (Google I/O 2024 video) → https://goo.gle/3zeYNj3

Misconceptions about View Transitions → https://goo.gle/3Tpsu7O

Bramus's Demos: Collection of various demos, both SPA and MPA → https://goo.gle/3B4edY8

Accordion → https://goo.gle/3B4egDi

Adam's Demos: Grid gallery → https://goo.gle/4giz0XV

Always great grid → https://goo.gle/3MH68Lu

Flexbox visualizer → https://goo.gle/47kmJOB

Editable tabs → https://goo.gle/4ghNfMx

Dollar number input → https://goo.gle/4e0FsBf

Stateful morphing button → https://goo.gle/4ebBNR2

Drag and Drop → https://goo.gle/3XlP2Yn

Isotope recreation → https://goo.gle/4dVX5lN

Local development animated → https://goo.gle/3XHjm17

Una Kravets (co-host) Twitter → https://goo.gle/452aBRb YouTube → https://goo.gle/457oMnS Making the web more colorful ✨🎨 Web DevRel @googlechrome Unicorn face Host of Tools Today → https://goo.gle/4aI6JpC & Designing in the Browser 🎬 → https://goo.gle/4e4YTcM

Adam Argyle (co-host) Twitter → https://goo.gle/3yFnHYu Instagram → https://goo.gle/3wUb6QJ YouTube → https://goo.gle/4dZNKK7 @GoogleChrome CSS DevRel; @CSSWG; VisBug maker; punk; CSS/JS/UX addict; 💀🤘 CSSWG → https://goo.gle/4bFErxq VisBug → https://goo.gle/4bDcVQZ

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