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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the web’s core styling language. For web developers, It’s one of the quickest technologies to get started with, but one of the hardest to master. Follow Una Kravets and Adam Argyle, Developer Advocates from Google, who gleefully breakdown complex aspects of CSS into digestible episodes covering everything from accessibility to z-index.

Apr 29, 2020

We’re sizing up sizing in CSS in this episode as we break down all the different lengths and measurements in CSS. CSS makes using these things seamless, it’s great, but let’s study some of the intricacies here; how it works and what that means for your day to day usage. 

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CSS Spec Values and Units Level 4 →


Apr 22, 2020

Explore perceptual, human-centered, color in this episode as we review latest specs, latest syntaxes, theories and strategies for color on the web in 2020.  

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Spec CSS color level-4 → https://goo.gle/3cFCaDr 

Draft Spec CSS color level-5  → https://goo.gle/3cL4CUF 

How Color Gamut & Display Technology Can...


Apr 15, 2020

In this part 1 episode, we dive deep into using CSS color. We discuss ways to write and code colors, places they can go, functions you can use on them, and then we top it off with a hex color challenge. As always, you’ll learn new jargon, pick up a trick or two, and learn something new. 

#C55 is #ace not #5ad

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Apr 8, 2020

Inheritance and its effects in CSS are found all over your styles, almost invisibly, until further investigation through devtools or docs. In today’s episode, we illuminate the aspects of inheritance, how they’re useful, things to watch out for, and of course tips, tricks and vocabulary. 

 

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Spec: css-cascade-3...


Apr 1, 2020

The “C” in CSS stands for the cascade! And that’s what today’s show is all about. Learn how the styles you write are affected by other styles, and how it all boils down to what the user sees.

4 Phases Of The Cascade:

› Position

› Specificity

› Origin

› Importance

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MDN on the Cascade and Inheritance...