# CSS-Tricks

23 Hacker News commenters recommended CSS-Tricks and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Long-running CSS tutorial site that helped many developers learn and keep up with new CSS features. Critics say the writing quality dropped after the acquisition.

## Why people recommend it

- Fun, approachable tutorials (4 comments): "He just had a way of writing fun and approachable tutorials for this stuff" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720951)) "I remember learning the very basics of webdev from CSS Tricks." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50246553)) "CSS-Tricks are great resources for the tinkerer and imagineer" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50247252))
- Helped people get unstuck and start careers (4 comments): "frequently reading for answers to the things I was stuck on getting the layout to work" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715195)) "I owe Coyier and CSS Tricks a huge debt to getting my career started in the 2000s." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50247181)) "I think CSS-Tricks is a great resource and it has helped me over the years" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50246634))
- Keeps up with new CSS (3 comments): "laser focused they are on covering purely CSS and making it fun to keep up with CSS news" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50249573)) "CSS-Tricks is about learning what modern CSS can do, which is arguably still useful" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248989)) "Pretty useful to catch up with webdev related new features" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50247528))
- Good reference for CSS questions (3 comments): "I really did admire CSS-Tricks when I was starting out and referenced their stuff often." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50252388)) "any CSS related question I'd type into Google would ultimately lead to CSS-Tricks.com" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50249346)) "I love CSS-Tricks and have bookmarked a lot of their articles over the years." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50249008))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "CSS-Tricks", https://hackerapproved.com/p/css-tricks/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).