Patrick Brosset

A new series covering recent web platform updates in Microsoft Edge for developers. This installment highlights CSS gap styling for layout, improvements to keyboard accessibility, and guidance on migrating a PWA to a new origin.

New in Edge for developers – Style layout gaps, improve keyboard accessibility and migrate your PWA to a new origin

<p>The gap decorations are the standout — drawing rules in flex/grid gaps natively finally kills the old hack of fake border pseudo-elements or wrapper divs just to get a divider between items. The real win is that the separators reflow with the layout, so you stop recalculating margins at every breakpoint to keep dividers from doubling up or dangling at the wrap point.</p>


<p>Useful, practical updates—especially better keyboard accessibility and clearer PWA migration guidance.</p>
