The CSS container property is a shorthand that combines the container-name and container-type properties into a single declaration.
.parent {
container: cards-grid / inline-size;
/* Equivalent to: */
container-name: cards-grid;
container-type: inline-size;
}The container property is a …
The CSS container-type property is part of the Container Queries feature used to register an element as a container that can apply styles to other elements when it meets certain conditions.
.parent {
container-type: inline-size;
}
@container (width < 500px) The CSS container-name property is used to register an element as a container that applies styles to other elements based on the container’s size and styles.
.parent {
container-name: cards;
container-type: inline-size;
}
@container cards (width 800px) {
.child {
CSS Container Queries are still gaining traction and many of us are getting our hands wet with them, even if it’s for little experiments or whatnot. They’ve got great, but not quite full, browser support — enough to justify using …
I wrote up some early thoughts on container style queries a little while back. It’s still early days. They’re already defined in the CSS Containment Module Level 3 specification (currently in Editor’s Draft status) but there are still a couple …
We’re still in suuuuuper early days with container queries. Too early for broad browser support, but Chromium already supports it, Safari started supporting it in version 16, and Firefox is presumably not far behind.
Most early days conversations …
Ahmad Shadeed got an early jump on container queries and has a growing collection of examples based on everyday patterns.…
Ahmad Shadeed documents a bonafide CSS trick from the Facebook CSS codebase. The idea is that when an element is the full width of the viewport, it doesn’t have any border-radius. But otherwise, it has 8px of border-radius. …
Container queries are going to solve this long-standing issue in web design where we want to make design choices based on the size of an element (the container) rather than the size of the entire page. So, if a container …
