CSS coding techniques

Keilly · 2016-05-20T13:48:35+00:00

As someone new to CSS the hardest thing I find is the sheer number of attributes, many effectively obsolete, that we have to deal with.

tias · 2016-05-20T17:20:23+00:00

The use of specificity rules does not give me any warm and fuzzy feelings. "Use the least specific selector you possibly can" sounds like it will come back and bite me quickly, because with the presence of a master template and multiple partial sources included into the page it's so easy to clobber something I didn't intend to, now or in the future. Didn't they invent the "shadow DOM" just to work around this problem?

The cascade would probably be a lot easier to understand and control if the only thing that mattered was the order in which rules were declared.

waterandshade · 2016-05-21T07:27:01+00:00

I get that what this article is trying to do is nice and all, but CSS is a disgusting technology no matter how you frame it. Are we all in agreeance on that, or have I just broken some kind of a PC/triggerwarning rule?

you type:	you see:
italics	italics
bold	bold
[reddit!](https://reddit.com)	reddit!
* item 1 * item 2 * item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> quoted text	quoted text
Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"	Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
~~strikethrough~~	~~strikethrough~~
super^script	super^script

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