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The State of CSS 2026 survey gathered responses from 4,902 developers between May and June 2026. Key findings: Anchor Positioning topped both the favorite new CSS feature list and the list of features developers want but can't use due to limited browser support. View Transitions and the new if() function face similar adoption barriers. Notably, CSS developers are bucking the AI trend — most respondents still write CSS manually, citing AI's poor quality output for CSS. The Interop 2026 initiative is expected to improve cross-browser support for many of these sought-after features.

State of CSS 2026

Alexey Zerkalenkov

<p>Those 64 persons that create all of their CSS code with AI gotta go</p>


<p>Anchor Positioning winning both “favorite feature” and “most wanted but blocked by browser support” in the same survey is a pretty stark signal — that’s not lukewarm interest, that’s the community actively waiting on a feature it’s already decided it wants. The AI-skepticism framing is worth a nuance though: the actual number is more “most devs use AI lightly, not zero” than “CSS devs reject AI outright” — a real distinction if you’re citing this as evidence either way.</p>
