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 Bramus Van Damme, Developer Advocates from Google, who gleefully breakdown complex aspects of CSS into digestible episodes covering everything from accessibility to z-index.

Episodes

November 20, 2025 17 mins

Una and Bramus recap the season! They share some new updates and re-visit some of their favorite tips and tricks.Season 6 covered inline if() statements and custom functions, scroll state queries, carousel APIs, view transitions updates, anchor positioning, command invokers and interest invokers, customizable select, and a whole bunch of other CSS functions!

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In this episode of The CSS Podcast, Una and Bramus cover a bunch of CSS functions from comparison functions to tree counting functions, the random function, and more.

Resources:
min(), max(), and clamp()
Web Dev article → https://goo.gle/4nvMthu 
Article by Ahmad Shadeed → https://goo.gle/3JvPznI 
Comparison functions → https://goo.gle/3JmbJsx 

sibling-count() and sibling-index() → https://goo.gle/3JCj33i 

attr()
CSS attr() gets an...

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November 13, 2025 13 mins

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...

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November 11, 2025 13 mins

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 th...

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November 7, 2025 13 mins

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 → ...

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November 5, 2025 17 mins

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 bec...

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October 29, 2025 16 mins

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

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October 16, 2025 17 mins

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 ...

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October 13, 2025 25 mins

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 ...

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October 3, 2024 42 mins

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...

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September 26, 2024 46 mins

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.

 

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Bramus's Demos:

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

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September 19, 2024 41 mins

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 Transiti...

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September 12, 2024 23 mins

In this episode, Una and Adam discuss a future web capability that builds on container queries: state queries. From CSS, this feature will be able to detect  if a container is overflowing, when an element is scroll snapped, and when an element is stuck from position: sticky.

Resources:
:stuck, :snapped, :on-screen, etc → https://goo.gle/3WVhSi6  

state queries syntax → https://goo.gle/3T2gI33 

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August 22, 2024 38 mins

In this episode Una and Adam explain anchor positioning and all its amazing features.

Resources:
Introducing the CSS anchor positioning API → https://goo.gle/3SWrvM5 

CSS anchor positioning → https://goo.gle/4dwgmd9 

Tab's talk from CSS Dayhttps://goo.gle/4ds8g5B 

Una's Anchor Tool → https://goo.gle/3yDYDSd 

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August 8, 2024 8 mins

In this episode Una and Adam catch you up to the latest syntax features of CSS nesting.

Resources:
Episode 47 → https://goo.gle/3SvM9T4
Episode 65 → https://goo.gle/3ygA7X1
CSS Nesting Update → https://goo.gle/3WHCRpK 

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

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August 1, 2024 16 mins

In this episode Una and Adam cover the linear() CSS easing function that can create bounce and spring effects.

 

Resources:

Ep 22 on Animation → https://goo.gle/4frnp8y 

linear() generator → https://goo.gle/46xs2JZ 

Complex animation curves in CSS with linear() → https://goo.gle/4ftm0Oz 

Open Props premade spring and bounce variables → https://goo.gle/46u...

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July 11, 2024 12 mins

In this episode Una and Adam talk about text wrap, a great modern improvement to typography on the web platform. Learn how you can create logical layout rules for your headings and other copy with just one line of code.

Resources:
text-wrap on MDN → https://goo.gle/3zvwixd 

soft breaks → https://goo.gle/4cXKLAq 

 

Una Kravets (co-host)
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Making the web ...

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July 3, 2024 36 mins

In this episode Una and Adam expand on episode 61 about :has() by focusing specifically on use cases, tips and tricks. Get inspired and discover new ways to make reactive UI from CSS.

Resources:
Ep 61 → https://goo.gle/4cID6pE 

Piccali → https://goo.gle/4ePKJMG 

Ahmad Shadeed → https://goo.gle/4bsk85F 

The Looper → https://goo.gle/3yKmXkI 

Una Kravets (c...

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In this episode Una and Adam provide a color update, covering changes to the specs and new functions. 

Links
RCS calc() tool → https://goo.gle/4cRRJHt 

Apple Annie CSS Color Modules and Changes, Part I → https://goo.gle/3xtTr2A 

Lea verou article on RCS for contrast → https://goo.gle/3L3x5YF

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June 20, 2024 43 mins

In this episode Una and Adam share practical use cases, syntax and strategies for all the new math functions in CSS. From trig to algebra, they'll help you get a good idea on where and how these fit into your UI toolbelt.

Links
Ana Tudor tests your browser for CSS math function support → https://goo.gle/4cmBm5r 

Great guide and overview from Daniel Wilson → https://goo.gle/4enKgBe 

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