Rarely Used CSS Properties

The Column-Rule Property

CSS columns is a layout method which can divide an element into columns. A common usecase is to divide a paragraph text into two or more columns. The interesting bit is that we can add borders between the columns. The column-rule property name might not reflect it’s purpose, but you can imagine it as a border right!

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Background Repeat Round

This property repeats the background in both directions but it never crops the image unless a single image is too large to fit. If multiple tiles can fit, it squishes or stretches appropriately.


Styling List Markers

It’s a perfectly reasonable to want to style the marker of list items. You know: blue bullets with black text in an unordered list. Or red counters with knockout white numbers in an ordered list.


Display: inline-flex

Useful for displaying inline elements with flex functionality.

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Object Fit

Object fit is used to specify how an img or video should be resized to fit it’s container.


Margin: Auto with Flexbox

Combined with flexbox, margin: auto can easily center a flex item horizontally and vertically

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