In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about why people hate CSS, some common issues, and how you can level up.
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Show Notes 03:20 - Layout is hard
block vs inline vs inline-block Learn what this means!
Flexbox https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
Grid
Avoid floats
Wes’ Flexbox Course
Wes’ CSS Grid Course
Scott’s Modern CSS Layouts Course
07:43 - I can’t get my thing to get the right style
Use a scoping system like BEM, CSS in JS, CSS Modules
Don’t style via IDs
Avoid !important
11:00 - My thing isn’t looking the way it’s coded
Dev tools
Write CSS in the browser
Check class names
12:11 - I don’t know if I can delete this CSS
Use tools like https://purgecss.com/
http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2010/06/25/the-media-object-saves-hundreds-of-lines-of-code/
15:51 - Look at things holistically
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