A number of high profile websites use a system font stack for that extra drop of performance. In this video we look at system fonts, how to reference them in CSS, why you might want to use them, and how to use them. Along the way we discover a mistake that a number of high profile websites make in their CSS.

This article by Russell Beswick is an advanced developer discussion of Web Components and Shadow DOM. It will be of value to those working with Web Components and Shadow DOM, but for others it may not be of much interest.

It is good to see ElegantThemes creating this type of tutorial so that their users will be ready to make full use of Divi 5.

Elementor continues work on Editor v4 with the 3.31 beta. It includes color and font variables, CSS filters, class manager enhancements, and more.

With the update to Bricks 2.0 CSS cascade layers are enabled by default. This video by Nick Arce explains what is going on and how to fix it. He also provides some insight into cascade layers.

This article makes the point that Cumulative Layout Shift is as much a designers problem to solve as it is a task for the developer. Along the way it mentions some steps for minimizing CLS, but doesn’t go into much detail – i.e. it is not really a tutorial, but it is an interesting read.

Here is a nice short video from Kevin Powell demoing the marker and selection pseudo elements.

Congratulations to the Elementor team. The Elementor CSS only carousel was featured at the Google I/O 2025 event.

This tutorial shows how to style elements using data attributes instead of using a class or the id. It is a useful technique for when you are working with dynamic data. The example uses Meta Box and Bricks, but the idea is the same that could be applied to other builders like Breakdance or Oxygen.