Eric Meyer

1. In situ Syntax Highlighting in macOS Applications Like Keynote

   If you do code-heavy talks in Keynote and want to syntax highlight the code, this might be for you.

   Published Wed, Jun 17, 2026

2. Eighteen

   The transition from phantom childhood to phantom adulthood feels like it could be a transition for us as well.

   Published Sun, Jun 7, 2026

3. Accessible (I Think) Split-Cell Table Headers

   A way to create a diagonally split header cell without mangling accessibility, I hope.

   Published Thu, May 28, 2026

4. Canvas-ing the Web

   A practical use case for rendering HTML+CSS to a canvas, an emerging API being previewed in Chrome.

   Published Mon, Apr 27, 2026

5. 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

6. 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

7. Parenthetical Asidenotes

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

   Published Tue, Oct 28, 2025

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Infinite Pixels

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

    Published Thu, Aug 7, 2025

12. 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

13. CSS Naked Day 2025

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

    Published Wed, Apr 9, 2025

14. 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

15. 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