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CSS for Programmers

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Explore why CSS is different, how it applies to your problems, and how you can integrate it more smoothly with your work.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • CSS for Developers
  • Using GitHub Codespaces with this course
1. The Basics
  • Why is CSS so weird?
  • Declarative vs. imperative languages
  • The browser rendering stack
  • Sidebar: Browser developer tools
  • CSS syntax
  • The cascade
  • Selector specificity
2. The Box Model
  • What is the CSS box model?
  • Logical properties
  • Layout and positioning
3. CSS-in-JS
  • CSS-in-JS: Writing CSS without writing CSS?
  • CSS-in-JS example: Styled Components and CSS Modules
  • Accepting or resisting the cascade
4. Building Great Markup
  • HTML serves most of your needs
  • The layout module flowchart
  • Modern CSS to the rescue: Custom properties
  • CSS as JS properties
  • Accessibility and hiding content with CSS
  • Units and sizes
  • CSS functions
Conclusion
  • Going further

Taught by

Morten Rand-Hendriksen

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