Despite what’s been a sleepy couple of weeks for new Web Platform Features, we have an issue of What’s !important that’s prrrretty jam-packed. The web community had a lot to say, it seems, so fasten your seatbelts!
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TL;DR: We can center absolute-positioned elements in three lines of CSS. And it works on all browsers!
Read an explanation of the recent CVE-2026-2441 vulnerability that was labeled a “CSS exploit” that “allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.”
Browsers don’t just let you bookmark web pages. You can also bookmark JavaScript, allowing you to do so much more than merely save pages.
Let’s get nuanced in this article and discuss the capabilities of both SVG and raster imaged so that you can make informed decisions in your own work.
Danny has several ideas for how we could use :near(), a proposed pseudo-class that detects when the pointer is near an element.
.element { opacity: progress(100vw, 400px, 1200px); }
.element { width: abs(-200px); }
.element { animation-range: cover; }
.element { view-timeline-axis: x; /* horizontal axis */ }
.element { view-timeline-inset: 200px 20%; }
.element { filter: blur(5px); }
.element { corner-shape: superellipse(2); }
.element { corner-shape: scoop; }
.element { rotate: asin(-0.5); }
.element { rotate: acos(0.5) }
.element { background-image: cross-fade(url(a), url(b)); }
