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Tailwind Apparent vs Actual

Note: The header image obviously isn’t Tailwind CSS, it’s just there for adornment and you pointing it out doesn’t make for good commentary. After watching the completely ridiculous drama of Tailwind vs Vanilla CSS unfold over time, I’ve finally got around to actually use Tailwind CSS. If you don’t already know, Tailwind goes 100% all-in on pre-made utility classes–one class per CSS declaration–which allows developers to style most things on the HTML elements themselves rather than going back and forth between templates in Views/ and CSS files in /wwwroot for example. ...

June 9, 2024
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What CSS Hides From You

Josh Comeau writes excellently on the mental model shift that enables you to understand CSS better: A few years ago, I had a Eureka! moment with CSS. Up until that moment, I had been learning CSS by focusing on the properties and values we write, things like z-index: 10 or justify-content: center. I figured that if I understood broadly what each property did, I’d have a deep understanding of the language as a whole. ...

January 2, 2024