Check your CSS source code order before shovelling on more CSS
A CSS developer explains how fixing a spacing issue by reordering CSS rules, rather than adding more code, highlights the importance of specificity and source order.
A CSS developer explains how fixing a spacing issue by reordering CSS rules, rather than adding more code, highlights the importance of specificity and source order.
Using CSS Cascade Layers to manage style order and specificity in live coding demos, particularly with container queries.
Explains CSS Cascade Layers, a new feature for managing specificity and organizing styles in large projects.
Cascade layers (@layer) are arriving in major browsers, offering developers explicit control over CSS specificity to prevent style conflicts.
Introducing Parsel, a tiny, permissive CSS selector parser with AST walking and specificity calculation methods.
A web developer recommends a perfect guide to understanding CSS cascade and specificity, which are often cited as reasons why CSS is difficult.
Explains CSS specificity rules, how to calculate selector priority, and why to avoid overusing !important.
A discussion on CSS specificity and the cascade, sparked by a Twitter poll, highlighting the importance of fundamental CSS knowledge.
Explains the CSS :not pseudo-class and its surprising impact on selector specificity, with practical examples.
Explains how CSS cascade prioritizes rules based on importance and origin before specificity, detailing user/author styles and !important.
Explains CSS specificity, how it's calculated, and how it determines which styles are applied to HTML elements.