Hasty Treat - Why Do People Hate CSS?

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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