The paper overlay effect in CSS can be used to give web content a realistic and engaging appearance, making it suitable for blog posts, portfolios, digital invitations, educational websites, presentations, product showcases, personal blogs, and event websites.

Thomas notes that focus outlines are often seen as a purely technical requirement, but suggests we should treat them as essential design elements that can help create “interfaces that are both beautiful and inclusive”, noting how they are fundamental to an accessible web. Also looks at a multi-colored striped approach, and a proposed native way to handling just that. Plenty of good examples here.

🌀 Develop foundational skills in Tailwind CSS 4 to create beautiful, responsive webpages quickly and efficiently.

The CSS Painting API allows you to create flexible, programmatic backgrounds that can dynamically adapt to element size and properties without using external images or heavy CSS animations.

A file path tells the browser where to find a file (like an image, CSS file, or JavaScript noscript) relative to the current HTML document.

This CSS property allows you to customize the highlight color of form controls while preserving their native styling, accessibility, and interactivity.

Plenty of superb inspiration, demos, and neat tricks on show here. Whether that’s a neat parallax effect, a retro VHS look achieved with CSS, a rad web component that adds particles to your pointer, or this 3D image carousel. Lots of cool stuff to dig into.