Questions tagged [css]
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language for specifying the layout and presentation in general of markup such as HTML and XML.
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Performance consideration for cascading style sheet implementation
I have the plan for an UI component hierarchy. Each UI component contains zero or more children UI components, and each UI component may set an optional theme. A theme is responsible for skinning a ...
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Could there be a <flex> tag?
<div> tags are display: block per default. <span> tags are display: inline per default. Could there be a tag that is display: flex per default? I don't mean a class, like bootstrap has. I ...
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Using JS and CSS parent selector to replace media queries: is it a good practice?
I really don't like media queries in CSS - they have limitations, and on top of that they make the code a lot more confusing. In addition, the restrictions are so strong that when using CSS ...
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Hierachy and API design for a CSS-selector-related Python library
I'm writing a Python CSS-selector library that allows one to write these kinds of expressions in Python as a pet project. The goal of the library is to represent selectors in a flat, intuitive and ...
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Crossbrowser testing FrontEnd apps in 2022
So nowadays, creating js & css that works the same across different browsers is less of an issue as to what it was a few years back. So let's say I have this Vue app that - Has CSS reset Include @...
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Is the BEM methodology in the large project used correctly
I am creating SCSS for the large project, I decided to use BEM methodology. I will have a lot of containers. I have question about BEM and about best practices. My current code: .footer { &...
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Should I use SCSS mixins as shortcuts for default CSS syntax?
This question is mainly about readability and understanding of the code. Im am also in the process of creating a SCSS framework like Compass and Bourbon. I struggle to write SCSS because I like to see ...
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Semantic Versioning for CSS
I maintain a CSS framework that is versioning with semantic versioning. What changes to a CSS framework are considered major, minor, and patches? Specifically, what is the "API" of a CSS ...
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Advantages and disadvantages of including JS/CSS inside the HTML?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of including JS/CSS inside the HTML instead of separated files? Specifically concerned about performance issues, for example, if the CSS and JS are small and ...
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Choosing between network optimisation and CPU usage in clientside web development [closed]
I'm working on a CSS library that includes hundreds of selectors and rules for quick templating instead of writing regular CSS. This is used as a replacement of attr() CSS function until it works for ...
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doesn't inline-styling represent separation of concerns concept the best way if you think that you're separating the HTML element from other elements?
I know that Inline CSS styling gets so much hate from many developers, and I understand that some of this hate is justified by the following facts: Inline styles increase page size as they don't get ...
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Setting width/height of unknown images for lazy loading
I have a site where users upload images & can all be viewed on a single page by other users. I want to lazy load images as the user scrolls instead of loading all initially. This is easy enough, ...
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How do I set a darker background color on hover *without knowing the original color*?
I've tried everything related to filter and backdrop-filter, but nothing seems to work. I've searched online but not found a single article addressing this (which is odd). I simply want to set the ...
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What are downsides to opening local html files in the browser?
Let's say you have a scenario where you want to build a simple web stack (html/css/js) prototype to share with someone. I am a little unclear on whether or not I want/need to use a small web-server to ...
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How would you architect a simple cascading style sheet object?
How would you architect a simple cascading stylesheet like inheritance object? For example, I have Apple that extends Fruit. class Fruit { constructor() { this.total = 10; } } ...
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