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21 Bad Front-End Habits to Drop in 2021 — A fun but clearly opinionated list from one of the maintainers of the State of CSS survey. They’re more about mindset and approach rather than the underlying tech.

Seven CSS Properties You Had No Idea About — I wasn’t familiar with bleed, caret-color and the now deprecated azimuth properties.

Bidirectional Horizontal Rules in CSS — A straightforward tutorial looking at how to use CSS’s logical properties to support both LTR and RTL layouts.

Some Things You May Not Know About Chrome DevTools — Ten quick-fire features you may have not stumbled across.

My Favorite CSS Hack — * { border: 1px solid red } is a classic ‘trick’ for debugging CSS and HTML issues by putting borders around every element. This tip takes a few extra steps, however, and helps you get a better overview, particularly with nested elements.

The :empty Selector — How to use the :empty selector to style elements with no children or content.

Getting Started with Offline Data in Web Apps — A look at different options for determining the user’s online/offline status and connection speed.

Chromium and The Browser Monoculture Problem — Following Microsoft’s move to Chromium, chatter around a re-emerging browser monoculture has flared up. Ken puts forward one possible solution.

How to Create Chained Bulletpoint Lists with CSS, BBC News-Style — Reverse engineering a neat HTML list effect, as used by the BBC. Even Plaice has followed up by turning this idea into a Web Component too.

Stop Using So Many DIVs: An Intro to Semantic HTML — Considering the HTML5 spec reads that “authors are strongly encouraged to view the div element as an element of last resort, for when no other element is suitable”, this article is a handy reminder of the semantic alternatives.

10 HTML Elements You Didn't Know You Needed — This is reasonably elementary, but reminded me of the sort of things that did well back when we were called HTML5 Weekly so.. here's a quick look at some HTML elements, a few of which you might not have known existed.