--- title: Best Kevin Powell posts — January 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Kevin Powell posts from January 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/kevinpowell/best-of/2025/01 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/kevinpowell/best-of/2025/01 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Kevin Powell posts — January 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Kevin Powell posts from January 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Kevin Powell — January 2025 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/remove-empty-elements-with-one-line-of-css---great-for-dynamic-content-eutw1zvnc "Remove empty elements with one line of CSS - great for dynamic content") Video Kevin Powell · 2y Remove empty elements with one line of CSS - great for dynamic content Learn how to efficiently hide empty elements in dynamic content using the CSS empty pseudo-selector, avoiding the need for complex JavaScript solutions. Ensure that your error messages are completely empty to work correctly and consider accessibility implications for screen readers. 37 2 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/easily-create-overlapping-sections-on-a-website-bvftchhwn "Easily create overlapping sections on a website") Video Kevin Powell · 2y Easily create overlapping sections on a website Learn multiple solutions for creating overlapping sections on a website layout, focusing on using CSS techniques such as box-shadow and linear gradients. The post also provides tips to avoid common issues and discusses the merits of each method. 27 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/scroll-state-queries-are-on-the-way-and-a-bunch-more--r5qc47cad "Scroll state queries are on the way! (and a bunch more)") Video Kevin Powell · 2y Scroll state queries are on the way! (and a bunch more) 19 4. 4 [](https://daily.dev/posts/this-css-color-game-is-way-harder-than-i-expected-tqz7fwu0b "This CSS Color Game is way harder than I expected") Video Kevin Powell · 2y This CSS Color Game is way harder than I expected Explore a fun and challenging CSS color guessing game where you need to match colors to their CSS names. The author describes their experiences and struggles with identifying specific color names like 'goldenrod', 'dark orchid', and 'ghost white'. They share their mistakes and learnings throughout the game, providing a link for readers to try it themselves. 16 1 5. 5 [](https://daily.dev/posts/my-best-css-tips-from-2024-bnucklb6f "My best CSS tips from 2024") Video Kevin Powell · 2y My best CSS tips from 2024 The post reviews five valuable CSS tips from 2024, focusing on timeless techniques that many developers overlook. Key highlights include customizing link underlines with thickness, color, and style properties, optimizing background images with repeat, round, and space properties, using nth-child to select ranges of elements, utilizing CSS counters for dynamic numbering, and solving text wrap issues on buttons using fit-content. These tips help enhance styling without relying on modern CSS features. 13 6. 6 [](https://daily.dev/posts/you-can-scope-styles-with-vanilla-css-now-lohyqzapk "You can scope styles with vanilla CSS now") Video Kevin Powell · 2y You can scope styles with vanilla CSS now Scoped styles in vanilla CSS allow developers to apply specific styles to elements without affecting others outside the designated scope. This technique uses the @scope rule to limit the style application, thereby preventing style bleeding and reducing specificity issues. 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