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
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!
Una Kravets (co-host)
Making the web more colorful ✨🎨 Web DevRel @googlechrome Unicorn face host of @toolsday & Designing in the Browser 🎬
Adam Argyle (co-host)
@GoogleChrome CS...
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.
Links
Nesting 1 Spec - https://goo.gle/3VgnoJR
Adam exploring the prototype implementation in Canary - https://goo.gle/3UGsMpv
@scope and @layer and nesting - https://goo.gle/3EyJ3Hq
Una Kravets (co-host)
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.
Links
CSS Grid Spec - https://goo.gle/3EfjoDq
MDN - https://goo.gle/3tbooTx
Smashing Magazine - https://goo.gle/3DUb7Ds
Ahmad Shadeed on Subgrid - https://goo.gle/3EeStaP
State of CSS (subgrid) - https...
Media query range syntax is a really nice addition.
Links
Una Kravets (co-host)
Making the web more colorful ✨🎨 Web DevRel @googlechrome Unicorn face host of @toolsday & Designing in the Browser 🎬
Adam Argyle (co-host)
@GoogleChrome CSS ...
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.
Links
CSS Color Module Level 5 → https://goo.gle/3f8BgpT
CSS Color Module Level 6 → https://goo.gle/3TIsPAI
Una Kravets (co-host)
Making the web more colorful ✨🎨 Web DevRel @googlechrome Unicorn fac...
: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.
Links
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.
Links
Inert spec - https://goo.gle/3SXid0C
MDN - https://goo.gle/3rK1Ybd
Chrome Developers: Introducing Inert - https://goo.gle/3CLygZE
Una Kravets (co-host)
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!
Links
Una Kravets (co-host)
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.
Links
MDN - https://goo.gle/3UjB6vL
Smashing Magazine - https://...
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.
Una Kravets (co-host)
Making the web more colorful ✨🎨 Web DevRel @googlechrome Unicorn face host of @toolsday & Designing in the Browser 🎬
Adam Argyle (co-host)
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.
Una Kravets (co-host)
Making the web more colorful ✨🎨 Web DevRel @googlechrome Unicorn face host of @toolsday & Designing in the Browser 🎬
Adam Argyle (co-host)
Twitter |...
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.
Una Kravets (co-host)
Making the web more colorful ✨🎨 Web DevRel @googlechrome Unicorn face host of @toolsday & Designing in the Browser 🎬
Adam Argyle (co-host)
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.
Una Kravets (co-host)
Making the web more colorful ✨🎨 Web DevRel @googlechrome Unicorn face host of @toolsday & Designing in the Browser 🎬
Adam Argyle (co-host)
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 ...
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!
Links
Counters Level 3 → https://goo.gle/3f2BP18
Pure CSS Games Collection → https://goo.gle/3l0wrQe
Una Kravets (co-host)
Making the web more colorful ✨🎨 Web DevRel @googlechrome Unicorn face host of @toolsday & Designing in...
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!
Links
Solved with CSS: Colorizing SVG → https://goo.gle/3x0Uilb
SVGOMG → https://goo.gle/3hS6ksJ
SVG spec → https://goo.gle/3wVgRYe
Una Kravets (c...
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.
Links
CSS Tricks Article → https://goo.gle/2U5PxJw
Quirksmode Article → https://goo.gle/2TY80rz
Una Kravets (co-host)
Making the web more colorful ✨🎨 Web DevRel @googlechrome Unicorn face host of @toolsday & Designi...
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!
Links
#lintHTMLwithCSS - https://goo.gle/3dSMIlU
CSS Speech Level 1 - https://goo.gle/3xrg3vc
Media Queries Level 5 - https://goo.gle/3qUcBXz
Una Kravets (co-host)
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.
Links
MDN - https://goo.gle/3y8My14
Spec - https://goo.gle/3dm4opF
Una Kravets (co-host)
Making the web more colorful ✨🎨 Web DevRel @googlechrome Unicorn face host of @toolsday & Designing in the Br...
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.
Links
Adam's post on web.dev → https://goo.gle/3qhYifl
MDN :is() → https://goo.gle/3qgU0Vf
Forgiving selector parsing → https://goo.gle/3xLTYHL
Una Kravets (co-host)
Making the web more colorful ✨🎨 Web DevRel @g...
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