On Writing CSS (philipcdavis.com)

over 5 years ago from Philip Davis, Designer and Developer

7 comments

Renato de Leão, over 5 years ago
Amen.
4 points
Terrell Griffith, over 5 years ago
"... I figured I would some thoughts on the type of CSS that I like to write and use."
I think you missed a word after 'would'? Nice writeup nonetheless.
1 point
Luke Bugbee, over 5 years ago
HI Philip! :D
1 point
Evan MacAlpine, over 5 years ago
Great write up! Anyone have any input as to why nesting is to be avoided? I use it quite a lot in my own projects.
1 point
- Philip Davis, over 5 years ago
  Hi Evan, i don't avoid nesting entirely, but the danger is that you have a lot of specificity variance which makes it difficult to quickly understand how styles are being applied and overridden. This is documented in Harry Robert's CSS Guidelines: https://cssguidelin.es/#specificity
  1 point
- Clarke Hyrne, over 5 years ago
  Following what Philip said, this post from Slack's engineering team has a great visualization of specificity, and a description of why the team refactored the way it did.
  2 points
  - Evan MacAlpine, over 5 years ago
    Thanks for the clarification Clarke and Philip!
    0 points

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