#css

Fresh 2.3 makes the 'zero JavaScript by default' promise a hard reality, adds native View Transitions, introduces built-in WebSocket handlers, CSP nonce injection, and Temporal API support for islands.

For decades, centering text vertically in buttons, badges, and layouts felt slightly off. The culprit: leading space, invisible padding built into every font's metrics. Two CSS properties now solve this at different levels: text-box-trim for inline text and margin-block with cap/lh units for block layouts.

Nuxt's latest point release brings major under-the-hood improvements: Vue Router v5, a custom useFetch factory API, an accessibility announcer composable, and a routing system migration that makes hot-module replacement up to 28x faster.

Cheng Lou just released Pretext, a pure JavaScript library that measures and lays out multiline text without touching the DOM. Here's why that matters for virtualization, layout control, and AI agents that write UI code.