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The TL;DR is that stretch does the same thing as declaring 100%, but ignores padding when looking at the available space.

Alignment might be one of the more confusing (or misunderstood) parts of CSS. I love having a thorough explanation from someone like Temani Afif who has it mastered.…

Web design veteran Andy Clarke is offering a two-hour workshop all about creating practical and creative page layouts this September 18. Register and save a few bucks with a coupon code.

The WebKit blog is back with a follow-up on its CSS Masonry coverage. It leans into a direction (display: grid), and that direction is different than Chrome’s recent prototype (display: masonry).…

I went on to figure out how make masonry work today with other browsers. I'm happy to report I've found a way — and, bonus! — that support can be provided with only 66 lines of JavaScript.

A CSS Masonry prototype has landed in Chrome and Edge 140. Really leans into the “Just Use Grid” camp. I immediately like the masonry shorthand property but gotta wrap my head around item-tolerance.…

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.…