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Drive CSS animations with scroll position instead of time. A practical guide to scroll() and view() timelines, animation-range, and graceful fallback — no JavaScript.
The CSS :has() parent selector closes a twenty-year gap. Five practical patterns — form validity, quantity queries, content-aware layout — that used to require scripting.
Overshooting, spring-like motion in pure CSS is here. How the linear() easing function reproduces bounce and oscillation, where the numbers come from, and when to use it.
Why naming a token --blue-500 breaks on re-brand day, and how a primitive / semantic / component token structure turns a brand overhaul into one line — plus free theming.
An accessible modal holds focus while open and hands it back on close. The full native dialog sequence: showModal(), autofocus, aria-labelledby, focus return.
Subgrid lets a nested grid inherit its parent's tracks, so card internals align across independent containers. The before/after, the syntax, and the fallback.
@starting-style gives you CSS entry animations, but the exit vanishes because display: none snaps. The two-line fix with allow-discrete and overlay, explained.