Eric Meyer

1. Targeting by Reference in the Shadow DOM

   A new way to allow elements inside a Shadow DOM to be targeted for accessibility or other reasons.

   Published Fri, Dec 19, 2025

2. Custom Asidenotes

   In which I turn inline asides into robustly enhanced sidenotes with CSS and just a touch of JS.

   Published Wed, Oct 29, 2025

3. Parenthetical Asidenotes

   In which I turn inline asides into sidenotes, but not in a way anyone should actually use.

   Published Tue, Oct 28, 2025

4. Bookmarklet: Load All GitHub Comments (take 2)

   In which I update a bookmarklet to load all the comments on super-long GitHub threads.

   Published Sun, Sep 14, 2025

5. No, Google Did Not Unilaterally Decide to Kill XSLT

   The Web Discourse has been spicy of late, and XSLT is to blame. Well, sort of. It’s complicated.

   Published Fri, Aug 22, 2025

6. To Infinity… But Not Beyond!

   More explorations of ways to abuse the CSS `infinity` keyword, this time with more than just lengths.

   Published Wed, Aug 20, 2025

7. Infinite Pixels

   In which I push browser engines to their finite limits using infinite values.

   Published Thu, Aug 7, 2025

8. Masonry, Item Flow, and… GULP?

   Masonry layout is a difficult thing to do with CSS at present. Item Flow could make it easy.

   Published Wed, May 21, 2025

9. CSS Naked Day 2025

   meyerweb.com goes au naturel, mostly, in observance of the annual CSS Naked Day.

   Published Wed, Apr 9, 2025

10. CSS Wish List 2025

    Back in 2023, I belatedly jumped on the bandwagon of people posting their CSS wish lists for the coming year. This year I’m doing all that again, less belatedly! (I didn’t do it last year because I couldn’t even. Get it?) I started this post by looking at what I wished for a couple of […]

    Published Wed, Jan 8, 2025

11. Design for Real Life: Online for Free AND On Sale for Money

    Design for Real Life is now available, for free, in its entirety, at dfrlbook.com. And is also for sale!

    Published Thu, Oct 10, 2024

12. Announcing BCD Watch

    A new service to help you keep up to date with changes in browser support.

    Published Mon, Sep 23, 2024

13. Design for Real Life News!

    Design for Real Life’s rights have been returned to Sara and me, and we’ve cut the price by about half (or more in some regions).

    Published Mon, Jul 22, 2024

14. A Decade Later, A Decade Lost

    I woke up this morning about an hour ahead of my alarm, the sky already light, birds calling.

    Published Fri, Jun 7, 2024

15. Bookmarklet: Load All GitHub Comments

    A quick way to load all the comments on a GitHub issue.

    Published Mon, Feb 5, 2024