# Generated Content Published articles for Generated Content. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## CodePen's New Interface, Deployment Infrastructure, and AI Potential DevFeed: [CodePen's New Interface, Deployment Infrastructure, and AI Potential]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Chris Coyier Published: 2026-08-12T16:01:09Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Chris Coyier]() Topics: [interface](), [Deployment](), [Front end](), [Artificial Intelligence](), [Large Language Model](), [Tooling](), [Caching](), [SSL]() Tags: [ai](), [cache](), [certificates](), [code](), [deployment](), [front-end](), [generated-content](), [hacker-news](), [uncategorized]() ### AI overview The author reflects on CodePen's new interface, its continued value for quick front-end experiments, and its increasingly capable website-building and deployment features. The discussion also considers AI-assisted deployment, code reuse, scraped code samples, version history, and abuse prevention for public user-generated content. ### Source excerpt Instead of our real launch blog post, my little "I should probably mention this on my personal website" post is the one that hit Hacker News. Nevertheless, people got the message. What I loved about CodePen was just being able to try out something really quick and simple. But the new interface makes me feel [...] ## Generating words? Keep them short. DevFeed: [Generating words? Keep them short.]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Brandur Leach Published: 2026-06-05T18:18:34Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [Fragments -- brandur.org]() Topics: [Large Language Model](), [prompt](), [Claude](), [codex]() Tags: [claude](), [codex](), [generated-content](), [llm](), [prompt](), [trust]() ### AI overview The author argues that the growth of LLM-generated content is making long writing harder to read and suggests keeping generated content short. They propose using LLMs for concise prose, editing, and proofreading rather than adding unnecessary filler. ### Source excerpt It's not possible to stop the torrent of LLM-generated content, but how about this as a simple ask: when generating content, keep it short. ## Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search DevFeed: [Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2025-11-12T12:00:14Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Kagi Blog]() Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](), [Web](), [Internet](), [systems]() Tags: [ai](), [community](), [detection](), [generated-content](), [product](), [quality](), [ranking](), [search](), [spam](), [users](), [web]() ### AI overview Kagi Search introduces SlopStop, a community-driven system for detecting and downranking deceptive or low-value AI-generated text, images, and video. Users can flag suspected AI slop, which Kagi verifies using its own signals and uses to adjust rankings and mark affected content. ### Source excerpt Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms We made it our mission to prevent the web from becoming useless and a harmful space. That's why today, Kagi Search introduces the first community-driven system to... ## My CSS wish list DevFeed: [My CSS wish list]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Manuel Matuzović Published: 2023-02-14T00:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Manuel Matuzović - Blog]() Topics: [CSS](), [Accessibility](), [Web Development](), [modern web development](), [web-standards]() Tags: [accessibility](), [accessible](), [behavior](), [browsers](), [clip-path](), [container](), [content](), [css](), [generated-content](), [has](), [implementation](), [property]() ### AI overview An author's CSS wish list proposes native solutions for visually hidden content, accessible names or alternative text for generated content, block links, and backgrounds that extend beyond an element. It also notes related proposals and improving browser support for other CSS features. ### Source excerpt I know I'm late to the party, but there are a few things on my CSS wish list I haven't seen on others, so I thought I'd share. Visually hidden content I'd love to see a native implementation of visually hidden text. I'm not the biggest fan of hiding stuff only for some, but it's inevitable sometimes. Instead of this: .visually-hidden { clip-path: inset(50%); height: 1px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px; } I want this: .visually-hidden { visibility: visually-hidden; } Or another example: .skip-link { position: absolute; visibility: visually-hidden; } .skip-link:focus-visible { visibility: visible; } Alternative text for pseudo elements It would be great if I could exclude generated content from the accessibility tree or give it an accessible name. button::before { content: "c"; font-family: MyIconFont; alt: ""; } There is actually an implementation in some browsers that looks like this: label:has(+[required])::after { content: '★' / 'required'; } Or even better: label:has(+[required])::after { content: '★' / attr(data-label-required); } Related posts Here's what I didn't know about "content" Alternative Text for CSS Generated Content The CSS "content" property accepts alternative text Block links So-called block links is something that's still unsolved in CSS. Let's say you have a card with a heading, text, image, and a link. In order to avoid accessibility issues, you only want to include a single link and you don't want to wrap all elements in that link, but you still want the entire card to be clickable. There are different ways of doing that, but there are drawbacks to all of them. I'd basically want to have a native implementation of Heydons pseudo-content trick. Maybe something like this:

Heading

asdasd

Link
.card { container-type: block-link; } Bleeding backgrounds When you define a fixed width and a background color for the , the backgroun ## Let's Use CSS Counters DevFeed: [Let's Use CSS Counters]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Ahmad Shadeed Published: 2020-02-26T00:00:00Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Ahmad Shadeed]() Topics: [CSS](), [Web Development](), [HTML]() Tags: [article](), [css](), [css-counters](), [generated-content](), [how-to](), [property]() ### AI overview A tutorial explaining CSS counters, including the counter-reset, counter-increment, and counter() features. It demonstrates dynamic numbering for headings and nested lists using generated content and pseudo-elements. ### Source excerpt From what I see, CSS counters are underused on the web, even though their support is really good (IE8+)!. In this article, I will explain how you can use CSS counters in your projects, along with some use-cases. What are CSS Counters? They provide us with a way to add generated content as numbers for elements, based on their location in the document. The Three C's There are three properties needed for CSS counters to work. ## Flexible multiline definition lists with 2 lines of CSS 2.1 DevFeed: [Flexible multiline definition lists with 2 lines of CSS 2.1]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Lea Verou Published: 2012-02-24T00:00:00Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Lea Verou's blog]() Topics: [CSS](), [formatting](), [HTML]() Tags: [blog](), [browser-support](), [chrome](), [css](), [display](), [firefox](), [generated-content](), [html5](), [opera](), [safari](), [tips]() ### AI overview A CSS 2.1 technique for formatting definition lists so each term and definition pair appears on one line. The article uses generated line breaks with the `content` property and `white-space: pre`, and notes browser support and limitations. ### Source excerpt If you've used definition lists (
) you're aware of the problem. By default,
s and
s have display:block. In order to turn them into what we want in most cases (each pair of term and definition on one line) we usually employ a number of different techniques: Using a different
for each pair: Style dictating markup, which is bad Floats: Not flexible display: run-in; on the
: Browser support is bad (No Firefox support) Adding a after each
and setting both term and definition as display:inline: Invalid markup. Need I say more? If only adding s was valid... Or, even better, what if we could insert s from CSS? Actually, we can! As you might be aware, the CR and LF characters that comprise a line break are regular unicode characters that can be inserted anywhere just like every unicode character. They have the unicode codes 000D and 000A respectively. This means they can also be inserted as generated content, if escaped properly. Then we can use an appropriate white-space value to make the browser respect line breaks only in that part (the inserted line break). It looks like this: dd:after { content: '\A'; white-space: pre; } Note that nothing above is CSS3. It's all good ol' CSS 2.1. Of course, if you have multiple
s for every
, you will need to alter the code a bit. But in that case, this formatting probably won't be what you want anyway. Edit: As Christian Heilmann pointed out, HTML3 (!) used to have a compact attribute on
elements, which basically did this. It is now obsolete in HTML5, like every other presentational HTML feature. You can see a live result here: Tested to work in IE8+, Chrome, Firefox 3+, Opera 10+, Safari 4+. ## Better "CSS3 ticket-like tags" DevFeed: [Better "CSS3 ticket-like tags"]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Lea Verou Published: 2011-08-15T00:00:00Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Lea Verou's blog]() Topics: [CSS](), [Web Development](), [HTML5 and CSS3 tricks](), [HTML]() Tags: [blog](), [css](), [css-gradients](), [css3](), [generated-content](), [html](), [html-elements](), [replies]() ### AI overview A tutorial recreates ticket-like visual tags using CSS3 gradients and no extra HTML markup. It discusses browser-support limitations, background-color dependence, reduced code, and scalability. ### Source excerpt Today I stumbled upon this tutorial, which from the screenshot, looked very interesting. So, I read on, and to my horror I noticed the author suggesting some questionable practices, the worst of which was using 3 HTML elements for every tag, including nonsense markup like . So, I thought I'd take a chance at trying to recreate this effect without any extra markup. And it turned out to be quite easy, although using CSS gradients limits browser support a bit (IE10, Firefox 3.6+, Chrome, Safari 5.1). They have the same disadvantage as the originals: They depend on the background color. However, unlike the originals, they come at less code, they're scalable without changing a million values (as shown in the "bigger" section) and of course, no extra markup. You can see the results in the fiddle below: Disclaimer: webdesign tuts+ occasionally has some nice tutorials. I didn't write this post to attack them in any way. ## CSSNinja's custom forms revisited to work with CSS sprites DevFeed: [CSSNinja's custom forms revisited to work with CSS sprites]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Lea Verou Published: 2010-02-19T00:00:00Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Lea Verou's blog]() Topics: [CSS](), [Web Development](), [modern web development]() Tags: [blog](), [chrome](), [css](), [firefox](), [forms](), [generated-content](), [replies](), [selectors]() ### AI overview The article revisits a CSS-only technique for custom checkboxes and radio buttons, proposing CSS sprites with background images, transparent text, and an inline-block ::before pseudo-element. The approach was tested in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. ### Source excerpt I read today CSS Ninja's (Ryan Sheddon's) brilliant new technique about the creation of custom checkboxes and radio buttons with CSS alone. The only thing that bugged me about it was something he pointed himself out as well: This technique has only 1 drawback I can think of, IE support is not a drawback for me, you can't use a big sprite image to save all the radio and checkbox states, they need to be individual images. Using CSS generated content to insert an image doesn't give you control of the image position like a background image does. And then I wondered "but hey, why can't we use background images?". It seemed pretty obvious to me that we could combine a transparent text color with normal css sprites and a display of inline-block in the ::before pseudo-element to achieve the exact same effect. I verified that my initial assertion was actually correct, and tested it in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera (the latest only, no time for testing in older ones at the moment) and it seems to work fine. Here it is: demo | source files (including .psd file of the sprite) I'm afraid there's some blatantly obvious drawback in my approach that made Ryan prefer his method over this, but I'm posting it just in case...