On Inheriting and Sharing Property Values
There are many ways to share properties, but what would it look like to inherit and use any parent property value on a child?
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Composition in CSS
CSS is a composable language by nature. This composition nature is already built into the cascade. We simply don't talk about composition as a Big Thing because it's the nature of the language.
Zell Liew
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Maybe don’t use custom properties in shorthand properties
This easily qualifies as a "gotcha" in CSS and is a good reminder that the cascade doesn't know everything all at the same time. If a custom property is invalid, the cascade won't ignore it, and it gets evaluated, which invalidates the declaration.
Geoff Graham
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@layer
The CSS @layer at-rule enables CSS authors to work within CSS Cascade Layers as a way of controlling how the CSS Cascade evaluates the order of styles. We define a layer and wrap it around the rulesets we want to …
Ryan Trimble
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HTML Web Components Make Progressive Enhancement and CSS Encapsulation Easier!
I have to thank Jeremy Keith and his wonderfully insightful article from late last year that introduced me to the concept of HTML Web Components. This was the “a-ha!” moment for me:
…When you wrap some existing markup in a
Kev Bonett
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Taming the Cascade With BEM and Modern CSS Selectors
BEM. Like seemingly all techniques in the world of front-end development, writing CSS in a BEM format can be polarizing. But it is – at least in my Twitter bubble – one of the better-liked CSS methodologies.
Personally, I think …
Liam Johnston
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Don’t Fight the Cascade, Control It!
If you’re disciplined and make use of the inheritance that the CSS cascade provides, you’ll end up writing less CSS. But because our styles often comes from all kinds of sources — and can be a pain to structure and …
Mads Stoumann
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Should DevTools teach the CSS cascade?
Stefan Judis, two days before I mouthed off about using (X, X, X, X) for talking about specificity, has a great blog post not only using that format, but advocating that browser DevTools should show us that value by …
Chris Coyier
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