CSS

There’s a peculiar kind of heartbreak familiar to anyone who writes CSS for a living: falling for a feature, reading the docs, testing it in one browser, and then discovering it quietly breaks in another. The 2026 State of CSS survey, gathered from 4,902 respondents between May and June this year, captures this exact tension in numbers. It’s a snapshot of a language that keeps getting more powerful while the ground beneath it — the patchwork of browser engines that actually render it — stays stubbornly uneven.