Container Queries Unleashed
February 7, 2025
The most exciting thing about container queries, in my opinion, is that they expand what’s possible in terms of user interface design. They give us new options when it comes to responsive design, creating UIs that would be impractical or impossible using traditional media queries.
In this post, I’ll share the most useful pattern I’ve discovered, so that you can start taking full advantage of container queries in your own work.
New features in the Web platform ave always lead to new approaches to design–it just can take some time to both free ourselves from the ways of thinking from previous paradigms, explore and experiment with the possibilities on the new, then codify and share these patterns.
It took roughly a decade for responsive web design to emerge as a name, well understood practice, despite pieces of the puzzle being available for years before.
Here Josh Comeau explores the capabilities that container queries bring for new ways of designing for the Web.
