<ul><li>2024 has been one of the greatest years for CSS: cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, anchor positioning, animate to height: auto, and many others.</li><li>Geoff proposes a conditional if() statement, CSS mixins, // inline comments and font-size: fit.</li><li>Ryan wishes for anchor positioning in more browsers and promoting elements to the #top-layer without popover as well as Adding a layer attribute to <link> tags.</li><li>Juandi wants a simpler way to reference the index of an element between its siblings or the total number of children, a better way to balance flex-wrap layouts, and an easier way to read/research CSSWG discussions.</li><li>Other wishes from the crowd include rotation of direct background-images, CSS random(), a CSS anchor position mode that allows targeting the mouse cursor, pointer, or touch point positions, a string selector to query a certain word in a block of text and apply styling every time that word occurs, a native .visually-hidden class, and position: sticky with a :stuck pseudo.</li><li>CSS-Tricks hopes to keep writing and sparking discussions about the web in 2025.</li></ul>

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