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Hasty Treat - Why Do People Hate CSS?
π Download ShowβοΈ Edit Show NotesIn 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
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- Learn what this means!
- 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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