The CSS Podcast

The CSS Podcast

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the web’s core styling language. For web developers, It’s one of the quickest technologies to get started with, but one of the hardest to master. Follow Una Kravets and Adam Argyle, Developer Advocates from Google, who gleefully breakdown complex aspects of CSS into digestible episodes covering everything from accessibility to z-index.

Episodes

November 22, 2022 36 min

Listen to Adam and Una recap all of the exciting landings they talked about in 2022 in this end-of-season recap. If you missed the others, don’t miss this one!

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In this episode Una and Adam talk about CSS Nesting, per the current 2022 spec draft. They'll cover the syntax basics, some gotchas and of course a bunch of examples. 

 

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Nesting 1 Spec - https://goo.gle/3VgnoJR 

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November 8, 2022 9 min

In this episode Una and Adam discuss subgrid, a special value for grid-template-rows or grid-template-columns. Learn the general details of usage, use cases, tips, tricks and gotchas, so you can use the feature with confidence.

 

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CSS Grid Spec - https://goo.gle/3EfjoDq 

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November 2, 2022 5 min

Media query range syntax is a really nice addition. 

 

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October 26, 2022 13 min

In this episode Una and Adam cover changes to the color level 5 and new color level 6 specs, so you can stay HD on the topic. Plus, a dive into CSS color functions for manipulating colors.

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CSS Color Module Level 5 https://goo.gle/3f8BgpT 

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October 18, 2022 23 min

:has() is a new CSS selector which allows developers to query for the presence of a child or state. It has been called the “parent selector”, but it’s much more than that! Using :has() you can style up and down a DOM tree, making this an incredible powerful feature. Learn how to take advantage of this new API with lots of examples in this episode.

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October 11, 2022 7 min

In this episode Una and Adam explain a non-CSS property, but very relevant front-end UI property, called inert. It's a way to have a visually guarded part of the UI also be guarded for keyboard and screen reader users.

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Inert spec - https://goo.gle/3SXid0C 

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October 6, 2022 15 min

Container queries (also known as @container) are a new entrypoint for truly component-based responsive design. In this episode, Adam and Una will walk you through how to use them, what browser support looks like, and upcoming features that will give you even more control over your responsive interfaces!

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September 20, 2022 18 min

In this episode Una and Adam cover Cascade Layers (aka @layer). It's a way for authors to control and orchestrate their own CSS layering which can help avoid specificity and asynchronous loading issues. Instead of styles taking the most recent style based on order of appearance, orchestrate layers and place styles inside them to control which overrides which.

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December 29, 2021 14 min

DevTools Mini Series continues, this time on interactions. Una Kravets and Adam Argyle are joined by Jecelyn Yeen to discuss interaction, and interaction inspection/ debugging in DevTools. 



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December 22, 2021 13 min

DevTools Mini Series continues, this time on accessibility tooling. Una Kravets and Adam Argyle are joined by Jecelyn Yeen to discuss how DevTools can help you discover and fix accessibility issues.

 

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December 15, 2021 17 min

DevTools Mini Series continues, this time on layout. Una Kravets and Adam Argyle are joined by Jecelyn Yeen to discuss an overview of how DevTools can help you create and debug layouts.

 

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December 8, 2021 14 min

Welcome to the DevTools Mini Series for The CSS Podcast. On this episode, Una Kravets and Adam Argyle are joined by Jecelyn Yeen to discuss an overview of color and shared tips.

 

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August 3, 2021 35 min

We’ve reached the end of season 2 of the CSS Podcast. In this closing episode, we recap every episode by sharing our favorite tips and learnings from the last few months!

Episodes reminisced
E30 → Lists
E31 → @rules
E32 → Page Media Queries
E33 → Preference Media Queries
E34 → Overflow
E35 → Background
E36 → Text & Typography
E37 → Cursors & Pointers
E38 → N-Match Notation
E39 → Paths, Shapes, Clipping and Masking
E40 → @font-face
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July 27, 2021 26 min

Count on The CSS Podcast to cover counters. Una and Adam teach all the ways to create, reset, and update counters. Use them for lists, games and more!

 

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Counters Level 3 https://goo.gle/3f2BP18 

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July 20, 2021 32 min

CSS and SVG are very intertwined, and you can create a lot of unique effects by combining the two. This episode dives into a few CSS + SVG tips and tricks, including where and how to use SVG on your page, icon systems, color theming, adding animations, filter effects, and more!

 

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This episode is about the very available CSS values inherit, initial, unset and revert. We'll help explain what they are, what they do and when to use them.

 

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CSS Tricks Article → https://goo.gle/2U5PxJw 

Quirksmode Article → https://goo.g...

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July 6, 2021 31 min

Today we are breaking down accessibility related styling choices to ensure a better user experience for all of your users. These include focus visibility, keyboard navigation, and more! 

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#lintHTMLwithCSS - https://goo.gle/3dSMIlU 

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June 29, 2021 25 min

Today we touch on touch interaction. Covering CSS's ability to change a user's touch experience with properties like touch-action, scroll-behavior, user-select and more.

 

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MDN - https://goo.gle/3y8My14 

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June 22, 2021 33 min

In this episode, Adam and Una explore some CSS syntactic sugar! They discuss the :is and :where functions, how they differ, and how they’re paving the way for nesting. 

 

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Adam's post on web.dev https://goo.gle/3qhYifl 

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