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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the web’s core styling language. For web developers, It’s one of the quickest technologies to get started with, but one of the hardest to master. Follow Una Kravets and Bramus Van Damme, Developer Advocates from Google, who gleefully breakdown complex aspects of CSS into digestible episodes covering everything from accessibility to z-index.

Nov 18, 2025

In this episode of The CSS Podcast, Una and Bramus cover a bunch of CSS functions from comparison functions to tree counting functions, the random function, and more.

Resources:
min(), max(), and clamp()
Web Dev article → https://goo.gle/4nvMthu 
Article by Ahmad Shadeed → https://goo.gle/3JvPznI 
Comparison functions → https://goo.gle/3JmbJsx 

sibling-count() and sibling-index() → https://goo.gle/3JCj33i 

attr()
CSS attr() gets an upgrade → https://goo.gle/3JCj33i 
New capabilities for attr() → https://goo.gle/47inI3p 

light-dark() → https://goo.gle/3X703wQ 

shape()
Use shape() for responsive clipping → https://goo.gle/47zSHH0 
Better CSS Shapes Using shape() → https://goo.gle/47OZMop 

ident()
Article introducing ident() → https://goo.gle/4oHdYW9 
ident() in the CSS Values and Units Specification →  https://goo.gle/3LgN8pK 

random()
Rolling the Dice with CSS random() → https://goo.gle/4oijnTO 
Generating Random Values → https://goo.gle/4hFwj3K 
CSS paint API: Being predictably random → https://goo.gle/3JEReau 

Una Kravets (co-host)
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Making the web more colorful @googlechrome 
Bramus Van Damme (co-host)
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@GoogleChrome CSS DevRel; @CSSWG; Scuba Diver 🤿