Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A look at 5 useful CSS tips and tricks, like single-colour gradients, the user-select property, masks, escaping scroll containers, and more.
🔗 Links
✅ Browser support for single color gradients: caniuse.com/mdn-css_types_gradient_conic-gradient_single_color_stop
✅ Video on @property: youtu.be/U8NykwZNbGs
✅ Salma’s post on creating a copy code button: whitep4nth3r.com/blog/how-to-build-a-copy-code-snippet-button/#the-html-and-some-preliminary-javascript-to-build-the-html
✅ css-generators.com
⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:35 - Single-colour gradients
05:25 - Second use case for single-colour gradients
06:50 - user-select
10:12 - the all property
14:24 - masks
17:40 - taking advantage of containing blocks to escape scroll containers
23:20 - anchor-positioning
#css
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A look at 5 useful CSS tips and tricks, like single-colour gradients, the user-select property, masks, escaping scroll containers, and more.
🔗 Links
✅ Browser support for single color gradients: caniuse.com/mdn-css_types_gradient_conic-gradient_single_color_stop
✅ Video on @property: youtu.be/U8NykwZNbGs
✅ Salma’s post on creating a copy code button: whitep4nth3r.com/blog/how-to-build-a-copy-code-snippet-button/#the-html-and-some-preliminary-javascript-to-build-the-html
✅ css-generators.com
⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:35 - Single-colour gradients
05:25 - Second use case for single-colour gradients
06:50 - user-select
10:12 - the all property
14:24 - masks
17:40 - taking advantage of containing blocks to escape scroll containers
23:20 - anchor-positioning
#css
✉ Keep up to date with everything I'm up to kevinpowell.co/newsletter
💬 Come hang out with other devs in my Discord Community discord.gg/nTYCvrK
⭐ Are you a beginner? HTML & CSS for absolute beginners is for you: learn.kevinpowell.co
🎓 Start writing CSS with confidence with CSS Demystified: [https://cssdemystified.com](https://cssdemystified.com/)
🚀 Already mastered CSS? Check out my advanced course, Beyond CSS: https://www.beyondcss.dev/
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Help support my channel
👨🎓 Get a course: kevinpowell.co/courses
👕 Buy a shirt: cottonbureau.com/people/kevin-powell
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🧑💻 My editor: VS Code - code.visualstudio.com
🌈 My theme: One Dark Pro Var Night
🔤 My font: Cascadia Code
---
I'm on some other places on the internet too!
If you'd like a behind the scenes and previews of what's coming up on my YouTube channel:
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/kevinpowell.co
Codepen: codepen.io/kevinpowell
Github: github.com/kevin-powell
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