Michelle is a Senior Front End Developer at Ada Mode, with an interest in tech for good and creative coding. She is author of front-end blog CSS { In Real Life }, as well as a writer for Smashing Magazine, MDN, Web.dev, Codrops and CSS Tricks. Michelle is a regular speaker on CSS topics and digital sustainability. She has a background in illustration, and enjoys tinkering with code in creative demos and side projects, as well as helping others to fall in love with CSS.
The past few years have brought us a tonne of new CSS features to help solve common layout challenges. In this session, we’ll delve into some real-world use cases for new features like container queries and the :has() pseudo class.
We’ll explore how to combine these with more familiar features in order to build robust, flexible and creative layouts that respond to both content and context, and take a peek into the near future to see what’s coming next for CSS layout.