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Vendor Prefixing

Explore how CSS vendor prefixes allow you to use emerging CSS features while maintaining browser compatibility. Understand the common prefixes, why they were essential, and how modern tools like Autoprefixer automate the process, reducing manual effort and improving your web development workflow.

CSS vendor prefixes

CSS vendor prefixes (or browser prefixes) are a way for browsers to provide access to new CSS features that aren’t yet considered to be stable.

We can use these newer CSS features with the browsers that support them by using prefixes instead of waiting for all browsers to catch up.

For example, before CSS transitions were fully supported, ...