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border-image-width

The CSS border-image-width property is used to determine the width of the border’s image file, as provided by the CSS border-image-source property.

.container {
  border-style: ridge;
  border-width: 3rem;
  border-image-source: url('path/to/image.jpg');
  border-image-slice: 70; 
  border-image-width: 40%;
  border-image-repeat: repeat; 
}

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Sunkanmi Fafowora on Jan 12, 2023 (Updated on Jan 18, 2023)

:has is an unforgiving selector

A little thing happened on the way to publishing the CSS :has() selector to the ol’ Almanac. I had originally described :has() as a “forgiving” selector, the idea being that anything in its argument is evaluated, even if one or …

Geoff Graham on Jan 11, 2023

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Faking Min Width on a Table Column

The good ol’ <table> tag is the most semantic HTML for showing tabular data. But I find it very hard to control how the table is presented, particularly column widths in a dynamic environment where you might not know how …

Anders Pedersen on Jan 10, 2023

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Styling Buttons in WordPress Block Themes

A little while back, Ganesh Dahal penned a post here on CSS-Tricks responding to a tweet that asked about adding CSS box shadows on WordPress blocks and elements. There’s a lot of great stuff in there that leverages new features …

Fränk Klein on Jan 9, 2023 (Updated on Feb 6, 2023)

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Thank You (2022 Edition)

You know, this is the time of year where Chris normally publishes a big ol’ reflection of the past year. The first one was published in 2007, the same year CSS-Tricks began, and it continued all the way through 2021…

Geoff Graham on Dec 28, 2022 (Updated on Dec 29, 2022)

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2022 Roundup of Web Research

We’ve started making a tradition of rounding up the latest front-end research at the end of each year. We did it in 2020 and again in 2021. Reports are released throughout the year by a bunch of different companies …

Geoff Graham on Dec 21, 2022

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Help choose the syntax for CSS Nesting

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CSS Nesting is making the rounds yet again. Remember earlier this year when Adam and Miriam put three syntax options up for a vote? Those results were tallied and it wasn’t even even close.

Now there’s another chance …

Shared by Geoff Graham on Dec 20, 2022 (Updated on Dec 21, 2022)

border-image-slice

The CSS border-image-slice tells the browser where to “slice” an image being used to create the pieces of an element’s borders.

.element {
  border-style: ridge;
  border-width: 3rem;
  border-image-source: url('path/to/image.jpg');
  border-image-slice: 30%;
  border-image-repeat: repeat; 
}

The border-image-slice property is defined in …

Sunkanmi Fafowora on Dec 20, 2022

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WordPress Playground: Running WordPress in the Browser

Being able to quickly spin up a WordPress instance has been the strength of WordPress ever since its famous “five-minute install”. Upload a few files, configure a few settings, and you’re off.

The friction of uploading files has gotten …

Geoff Graham on Dec 19, 2022

:has()

The CSS :has() pseudo-class selects elements that contain other elements that match the selector passed into its arguments. It’s often referred to as “the parent selector” because of its ability to select a parent element based on the child elements …

Mojtaba Seyedi on Dec 19, 2022 (Updated on Jan 17, 2023)

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CSS Infinite 3D Sliders

In this series, we’ve been making image sliders with nothing but HTML and CSS. The idea is that we can use the same markup but different CSS to get wildly different results, no matter how many images we toss …

Temani Afif on Dec 16, 2022