Using hard color stops with `repeating-conic-gradient()` and the double-stop syntax, we can pretty easily create a burst background. Then get fancier.

These buttons animate from a square to an arrow, and we look at three different ways to do it, each with their own upsides.

Shadows don’t have to be used for… shadows. Inset shadows can layer over backgrounds and because they are animatable, it’s just another tool for drawing what we want to the page.

Being able to control the `paint-order` in CSS means you can push the stroke behind the fill, fixing awkward issues with ruining letterform readability.

There is an already-classic @scope demo about theme colors. Let’s recap that and then I’ll show how it relates to any situation with modifier classes. (The @scope rule is a newish feature in CSS that is everywhere-but-Firefox, but is in Interop 2025, so shouldn’t be too long to be decently usable.) There are lots of […]

`box-decoration-break: clone;` in CSS can help us make for interesting backgrounds across lines of text that break, but when opacity gets involved, things can get complicated.