I always get a little excited each time the annual State of CSS survey rolls around because I can feel validated in what I know, and I can also discover new things I haven't heard about so I can learn them in the future. I took the 2022 survey almost immediately when it was released this year and my personal results made me feel demoralized:

I'd been scoring 70+% each time I'd taken previous surveys so I was surprised how low I scored this time. But there are a couple things going on here. First is the rapid speed in which new CSS features are rolling out to browsers now, which is a great thing. We won't have to wait for a "CSS4" spec; individual features are able to be implemented in browsers.

The second factor is how web development requires constant learning. Hopefully you are able to keep up with at least some of the new features in your job, but I've worked in roles where this wasn't prioritized and it required personal time to keep up. It can also feel overwhelming even if you do have time to learn at work just on account of how many new features there are and where to start, and whether those new features have practical uses for what you're working on.

In the past few months I've been more proactive about my career and focusing more on CSS, so I'll be making a series specifically on features from this survey so I can learn and hopefully help you to learn as well. These will not be in any particular order, and there may be multiple articles about the same feature depending on the functionality. Overall I'm pretty excited to explore all these new CSS features. Let's do this!