--- title: Wanna see a CSS magic trick? | daily.dev description: CSS has evolved significantly from table-based layouts to modern techniques with powerful new features. Recent additions include conditional logic with IF... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rj0hh03m2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Wanna see a CSS magic trick? | daily.dev og:description: CSS has evolved significantly from table-based layouts to modern techniques with powerful new features. Recent additions include conditional logic with IF... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rj0hh03m2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RJ0HH03M2.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Wanna see a CSS magic trick? **[CSS](https://daily.dev/sources/iheartcss)** · [@geoffgraham](https://daily.dev/geoffgraham) · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary CSS has evolved significantly from table-based layouts to modern techniques with powerful new features. Recent additions include conditional logic with IF functions, anchor positioning for tooltips and UI elements, scroll-driven animations, and typed custom properties (variables). These features eliminate the need for JavaScript in many common patterns like carousels and animations, while improving performance and accessibility. CSS now supports media queries for user preferences like reduced motion, and new functions like sibling-index and sibling-count reduce the need for loops. The language is approaching maturity with a well-designed API that handles edge cases thoughtfully. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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