Monthly Archives: November 2018

Rachel hooks us up with what the CSS Working Group is talking about:

• Styling scrollbars. This would come with properties like scrollbar-width and scrollbar-color. The best we have right now is proprietary WebKit stuff.
• Aspect ratios. I imagine the CSS portion of this journey will be best handled if it plays nicely with the HTML intrinsicsize stuff.
• Matching without specificity. :where() is :matches() with no specificity, and :matches() may become :is().
• Logical Properties shorthand. The team is

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I think of named grid areas in CSS Grids as bring-your-own syntactic sugar. You don’t absolutely need them (you could express grid placement in other ways), but it can make that placement more intuitive. And, hey, if I’m wrong about that, correct me in the comments.

Say you set up a 3-column grid:

.grid {
display: grid;
grid-gap: 1rem;
grid-template-columns:
200px 1fr 1fr;
}

No rows defined there; those are implicit and will appear as needed. We could define them, …

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