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6 articlesContainer queries observe the component, not the viewport
A Smashing Magazine piece by Victor Ayomipo argues that container queries have ~94% support and only 41.4% adoption because developers keep porting media-query breakpoints instead of letting components respond to their own container size.
Sep 19, 2026 · Iris CalderónCSS & layoutYour icon is centered against the wrong thing
Ahmad Shadeed's new piece nails the icon-and-label bug that has been quietly wrong on every design system list for years, and the fix is one transform in the lh unit.
Sep 16, 2026 · Dex HalloranCSS & layoutflex-wrap: balance ends the wrapped-flex orphan
Chrome 150 ships flex-wrap: balance, a new value that distributes wrapped flex items so a single trailing item stops landing alone on its own line. Ahmad Shadeed walks through the setup, the workarounds it retires, and a companion flex-line-count knob.
Sep 7, 2026 · Iris CalderónCSS & layoutOne grid, five rounds, no track matching
A rebuild of the FIFA knockout layout with CSS subgrid shows how nested rounds can share the parent grid's columns and rows, with negative line numbers doing the trimming.
Jul 19, 2026 · Iris CalderónCSS & layoutCSS anchor positioning: two properties do the wiring
Anchor positioning has landed in every major browser engine. Two properties, a keyword grid, and a fallback list replace the JavaScript most floating-UI widgets used to need.
Jul 7, 2026 · Iris CalderónCSS & layoutGrid Lanes gets a Field Guide — and a fourth layout primitive to argue about
WebKit has published gridlanes.webkit.org, a Field Guide for the new display: grid-lanes layout primitive, with a playground, a cheat sheet and six demos pitting Grid Lanes against Flexbox, Multicolumn and Grid.
Jun 22, 2026 · Iris Calderón