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Direct link to the article Simplify Styling with Functional CSS
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Simplify Styling with Functional CSS

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There is no doubt that “functional CSS” resonates strongly with some people. If that term is new to you, I belive it’s come to mean the same thing as “Atomic CSS” as defined by John Polacek here. Harry Nicholls …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Nov 7, 2018
Direct link to the article All Fired Up About Specificity
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All Fired Up About Specificity

You never know where the next Grand Debate™ in front-end is going to come from! Case in point: we just saw one recently based on a little Twitter poll by Max Stoiber in which 57% of people got it wrong. …

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Chris Coyier on Sep 20, 2018
Direct link to the article Combining the Powers of SEM and BIO for Improving CSS
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Combining the Powers of SEM and BIO for Improving CSS

CSS is easy, some might argue, but that “easiness” can cause messy code. This is especially true through power of preprocessors like Sass or Less where, if you aren’t careful, your CSS can become harder to deal with instead of …

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Ryan Yu on Jun 4, 2018 (Updated on Jun 9, 2018)
Direct link to the article CSS Basics: The Second “S” in CSS
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CSS Basics: The Second “S” in CSS

CSS is an abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheets.

While most of the discussion about CSS on the web (or even here on CSS-Tricks) is centered around writing styles and how the cascade affects them, what we don’t talk a whole …

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Geoff Graham on Feb 14, 2018 (Updated on Feb 21, 2018)
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Strategies for Keeping CSS Specificity Low

Keeping CSS specificity low across all the selectors in your project is a worthy goal. It’s generally a sign that things are in relative harmony. You aren’t fighting against yourself and you have plenty of room to override styles when …

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Chris Coyier on Jan 12, 2015 (Updated on Feb 3, 2020)
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