Minimal Takes on Faking Container Queries

It’s sounding more and more likely that we’re actually going to get real container queries. Google is prototyping a syntax idea from David Baron and refined by Miriam Suzanne. Apparently, there has already been some prototyping done for a switch() syntax which is like container queries on values. Even now, there is stuff like the Raven technique which can do container query-esque values. This stuff will shake out over time. If you need solutions today, most of them involve JavaScript … Read article “Minimal Takes on Faking Container Queries”

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