Stephanie Eckles

SmashingConf New York 2025 For the 9th SmashingConf New York — we will be back in downtown New York, just around the corner of Times Square on October 6–9. With one track, two days, 12 speakers and 400 attendees, expect actiona...

📣 One week until SmashingConf NYC!

I'll be going all in on #a11y and #css in both my workshop and talk, with the workshop taking place the Monday prior, Oct. 6.

Grab your discounted ticket to the conf + workshop! (scroll down a bit for the bundles)

Hope to see you there!

ti.to/smashingmaga...

Building Interactive, Accessible Components — New York 2025, October 6–9. Full-day workshop • Monday, October 6, 2025. Want to learn the latest CSS and JavaScript so you can make great interactive and accessible components? With plenty of new features that launched recently...

➡️ Or meet me at Smashing NYC and take the in-person workshop there!
smashingconf.com/ny-2025/work...

#css #a11y #designsystems

Building Interactive, Accessible Components with Modern CSS & JS — Online Workshops CSS is more capable than ever, even replacing some behaviors previously only possible via JavaScript. Join this workshop to learn about the dynamic features now available in modern CSS, as well as dis...

📣 **One week left** until my online workshop with Smashing begins!

I'm looking forward to nerding out with you about how to ensure you're using new #CSS and HTML features and behaviors to build robust, accessible components!

​🎟️ See the full schedule and more info
smashingconf.com/online-works...

SmashingConf New York 2025 For the 9th SmashingConf New York — we will be back in downtown New York, just around the corner of Times Square on October 6–9. With one track, two days, 12 speakers and 400 attendees, expect actiona...

📣 Join me in NYC this October at SmashingConf!

I'll be giving both a workshop and a talk around #a11y and #css.

[20% OFF] using this link - plus a discount if you plan to attend both the workshop and conference (scroll for that option!)

ti.to/smashingmaga...

Building Interactive, Accessible Components with Modern CSS & JS — Online Workshops CSS is more capable than ever, even replacing some behaviors previously only possible via JavaScript. Join this workshop to learn about the dynamic features now available in modern CSS, as well as dis...

📣 There are still early bird tickets available for my upcoming online workshop combining modern #CSS with JS accessibly, in partnership with Smashing: smashingconf.com/online-works...

🍎 Or if you happen to be going to Smashing NYC, I'll also be running it in person: smashingconf.com/ny-2025/work...

figure/figcaption issue ...

Ooh, super clever use of containment!

Here's a little swap from `display: inline-block` to using `inline-size: fit-content` so we can center with auto margins

codepen.io/5t3ph/pen/Jo...

Working on my talk for Web Directions Code and...

What has tripped you up in regards to #CSS when styling for both light and shadow DOM?

What tips would you tell your younger self to help make it less confusing?

12 Days of Web A year-end celebration of fundamental web technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

📆 12 Days of Web returns a month from today!

Be sure to sign up for reminder emails or grab the RSS feed. You won't want to miss out on getting up to speed with some of the latest web features from the 12 incredible guest authors!

12daysofweb.dev

https://cloudcannon.com/blog/cloudcannon-the-official-cms-partner-of-eleventy/and at https://www.11ty.dev/blog/cloudcannon/ Big Announcement: Eleventy and @CloudCannon!

We come to you now with an Officially Big Announcement regarding a new partnership between Eleventy and CloudCannon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nypsmn70ipI

What's always been "weird" to you about #CSS? As in, how something works? Less intuitive aspects? Stuff that trips you up even though you "know" how it works?

This is not a gripe thread, I'm looking for constructive input, thanks!

If anyone needs the shirt I was wearing at #CSSDay...

https://www.redbubble.com/people/5t3phDev/shop

📝 New Post: Modern CSS For Dynamic Component-Based Architecture

All the words and demos from my #CSSDay talk!

https://moderncss.dev/modern-css-for-dynamic-component-based-architecture/

Here are my slides from #CSSDay

Thanks for sticking with me to the end! 😅

https://5t3ph.dev/cssday23

#Amsterdam locals - what should we see, and what is ok to skip while we're there for #CSS day this week?

📣 This is a call to all web educators to collectively socialize the terms "inline" and "block".

If you're not ready to flip over to using logical properties, that's fine, but these terms still need to become the norm so that in a few years, the association has been established for folks.

oh hello!

gonna get the smallest bit spicy in tomorrow's newsletter 🌶️

https://moderncss.dev/newsletter

Shame on whoever didn't tell me about BroadcastChannel earlier.

In related news: Always bet on the web platform.

🚨 Less an an hour before today's #11ty meetup!

https://11tymeetup.dev/

Zoom link is in the calendar invite and will be posted to the 11ty Discord, too.

📆 Join us for THE #11ty Meetup happening tomorrow!
We'll have two great talks about the Eleventy community and caching data with Eleventy Fetch.

No signup required, just grab the calendar event or subscribe to the newsletter to get the Zoom link.

https://11tymeetup.dev/

The main reason I continue using Grammarly is to get a weekly graph of my perceived personality 🤪

I am once again writing about my favorite #CSS grid utility.

What trips you up about #CSS custom properties?

And - are you using them:

a) not at all
b) sometimes
c) most of the time
d) absolutely every project

If your framework doesn't include file-based routing as a first-class feature, I don't want it 🙅‍♀️

Oh dang - I hadn't ever thought of *that* as an argument against this style! Sticking that in my back pocket...

Pleased to share that a #CSS series I've spent several months working on with SitePoint was released today!
https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/books/unleashing-the-power-of-css/

First chapter - "What You've Missed in CSS Land" - is in free preview!

plz send motivation to work on my slides, kthx

✨ New project: SupportsCSS, a drop-in feature detection script / handy reference table for creating @ supports and JS-based feature tests.

https://supportscss.dev/

📝 New post: Testing Feature Support for Modern CSS
Which aims to answer "how do you know a new #CSS feature is 'safe' to use?"

https://moderncss.dev/testing-feature-support-for-modern-css/

Hot 'n fresh newsletter hitting ya tomorrow!

https://moderncss.dev/newsletter