Sara Soueidan

Sara is a freelance front-end web developer from Lebanon. She speaks, and loves to write complete, thorough articles about CSS and SVG, while sipping a cup of fruit-flavored green tea.

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Episode 81 Changing the Shapes

So far, page layout on the web has predominantly consisted of a lot of boxes stacked on top of boxes — rectangular columns everywhere. That's about to change. New specifications, including CSS Shapes and CSS Exclusions, are about to change the shape of the “page.” Sara Soueidan joins Jen Simmons to explain.

In This Episode

Creating non-rectangular layouts
The CSS Shapes Level 1 specification
How to contribute to everyone's learning and become an internet superstar along the way
The CSS Exclusions specification
The CSS Figures specification
What's newly possible in page layout?
The debate around CSS Regions
Alternatives to Regions
The CSS Fragmentation specification
The CSS Shapes Level 2 specification with SVG paths