css in 2020

What Is New In CSS In 2020

The upcoming features of CSS 2020 have generated a lot of buzz in the design community. With the COVID situation, the release for a lot of features has been postponed. But fortunately, we can take some insights from last year’s CSS reports and try to predict what new additions will come up.

A Shared Collaborative Report From Users: What’s New in CSS

If you are interested in knowing about the collective voice of the world of CSS, the State of JavaScript collects valuable user opinions from CSS users. It covers all aspects of the stylesheet generated by listening to ideas and needs from the users. We have collected some of the surveyed ideas from over a hundred thousand users and presented them in this article. 

Presentation is everything, and CSS offers the flexibility of knowing what goes where through convenient layouts. There have been several new integrations in the decade-old stylesheet which has helped developers all over the world create new layouts. 

Multicols, grids, and flex have created a level of flow and freedom that we have never seen before. CSS has come a long way from symmetric columns and static designs. The newer developments have made it possible to create fluid, responsive layouts. 

Think magazines. Layouts play a huge role in how they will fit in on whatever device you are using them to open. Here are the CSS3 new features that are in the making– 

Flexbox

The main purpose of flexbox layouts is to create interfaces that don’t require a container. You can use the boxes to zone in whichever direction you need. You can elongate the boxes, so there are no gaps between the content, or even shrink them to make them fit perfectly within a page. This avoids common design gaffe. 

The availability of adjusting the size of the boxes eliminates the need for manually correcting the design repeatedly. Over 90% of users have adapted flexbox in the design.

Grid

Putting a CSS grid in your web design is easy, see how simply this new online casino has done it. You get a two-dimensional area to organize your columns and rows into. You can determine if you want to adjust the size of the parts in the grid. Although grids have been widely accepted in the design community, around 55% of users are only using this in their layout designs. 

This means, there is a lot of improvement to be made in the grid. Possibly people prefer the comfort of the flexbox over the grid, which is a little more difficult to adjust.

Multi-Column Layout

As a newspaper editor or designer, you will find this feature extremely useful. The multi-column layout is primed for these designs. The columns also flow into other columns, or to simplify, if you have a big story, you can arrange it to fit perfectly on your front page in as many columns of any sizes as you need. 

You can also manipulate what kind of gap to leave between your columns, so the visibility and clarity of the arrangement look best for your readers. A lot of CSS users are still unaware of the multi col layout or have not used it in their design. 

The gap in knowledge could be because developers don’t understand how to put the design into their practice. Perhaps some new improvements will make it easier to be integrated into the design.

Writing Modes

The writing modules are a testament to how the international writing model fits into the design. Whether it’s from left to right, right to left, or scripts like Chinese, and even bi-directional, the writing mode will prime you for success. This is an unconventional feature, which means it has not been widely adopted to practice. 

The most widely used left to right mode is a default one in designs, which makes you think writing mode is an unnecessary addition. However, if you are working on multilingual projects, you might come across the need to utilize this.

Shapes And Graphics

CSS has pretty amazing flexibility in terms of graphics. The flexibility of CSS extends much beyond the offerings that people are generally aware of. You can use various graphics features that will let you create visually gorgeous designs. 

You can do it all at the same place, and don’t need a separate editing app to modify any of your designs. It comes with many filters and features. As a design, CSS shapes and graphics will make your job much easier. It is also super accessible. You can read the design from a multitude of screens.

Object Fit

When editing, designers often run into issues where they need to remove some content yet not mess up the original layout of the page. Such as, removing an image or an article that is no longer required, will leave behind a gap that needs to be adjusted. 

The object-fit defines how to do the adjusting, so the other boxes fill the gap in the page or the container. This is also used by the majority of CSS users.

 Shapes

Geometric shapes are essential for various visual clues and presentations. If you have used shapes before, you are already aware that it is not as basic as it sounds. The shapes and graphics feature contains many advanced features such as masking, clip-path, etc.

Interactions

The only way you can influence how the page fits into a web browser is by using JavaScript. With the various advancements in CSS, you can utilize design features like scroll snap, the behavior of the browser, etc. Interaction is a vast subject and you can find out about the features in detail if you go through the state survey reports.

Typography Or Variable Fonts

Typography is widely used in CSS, and variable fonts have become one of the most used features in CSS by 2019. We implore you to utilize the various versions of a single file. This will completely remove your need for using different font files when you want to change the style of the file. The font face gives you a central place to control the style of the design.

Animations And Transforms

Animations are commonplace in designs nowadays. You must have used them one time or the other. it could be simple animations like hover effects when you scroll your mouse over texts, to complicated animations, the transformations of CSS make it possible to create interactive and intuitive designs.

Transitions

You will have many CSS elements in the same container, and the transition effect will help you create a smooth, flowing effect when you are progressing from one to the other. transitions are popular amongst users for the easy design solutions and progressive layout it creates.

Transforms

Transitions are not the same as transforms. In transforms, you can get CSS elements that will allow you to create a two or three-dimensional flow of components in your container. Like transitions, transforms are also extremely popular.

Animations

The very CSS properties you add in the design, you can animate. You can also do this over time. For example, on interactive shopping pages, we see banners changing every few seconds. This kind of design is done utilizing timing functions, durations, and repeat sequences of the design. Animations are used by over 90% of users, which signals the need for more intuitive designs.

Conclusion

Ultimately, the survey report from last year has been illuminating about what the gaps are, that are keeping users from fully utilizing the potentials of CSS designs. They also brought up what directions were popular amongst users. the popularity of animation features like transitions, flex, transformations, suggests that users are leaning towards creating fluid designs. So, we can expect to see more advancements in the area of animations in CSS.