Amir Maghami | Blogs

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A collection of my thoughts, tutorials, and insights on web development.

Thank You (2025 Edition)

This is the best job I've had in my life and it's only possible because you keep showing up each day to read, learn, share, and discuss all-things-front-end (and a little CSS, of course) with us.

text-decoration-inset is Like Padding for Text Decorations

The text-decoration-inset property solves a problem that we’ve had since the beginning of the web, which is that text decorations such as underlines extend beyond the first and last characters, resulting in vertical misalignment.

Masonry Layout is Now grid-lanes

It's settled! A new CSS display property keyword called grid-lanes will trigger a masonry layout mode.

Responsive List of Avatars Using Modern CSS (Part 2)

In this article, we follow up the work we did to create responsive rows of circular images in a previous article by arranging the images around a circle with a clean hover effect.

What’s !important #1: Advent Calendars, CSS Wrapped, Web Platform Updates, and More

The best CSS news from around the web from the last two weeks. In this edition: advent calendars, CSS Wrapped 2025, and the latest Web Platform Updates.

Responsive List of Avatars Using Modern CSS (Part 1)

A list of rounded images that slightly overlap each other is a classic web design pattern. The main idea is not complex, but the new thing is the responsive part. that dynamically adjusts the overlap between the images so they fit inside the container.

Creating Scroll-Based Animations in Full view()

It’s not that hard to do! Preethi shows you how it's really the same old animation you’re used to writing in CSS, only applied on a view timeline instead of a normal timeline.

That Time I Tried Explaining HTML and CSS to My 5-Year Old Niece

I would like to tell you what I learned from a five-year old child about HTML and CSS. It’s funny how explaining something you do almost naturally teaches you about yourself and what you take for granted.

Getting Creative With “The Measure”

A good measure makes reading text comfortable, while a bad one makes it more difficult. So, rather than allowing layout to dictate the measure, doesn’t it make more sense for the measure to inform layout decisions?