Ask HN: CSS The Right Way?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7078458

by stevewilhelm • 13 years ago

8 9 13 years ago

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To piggy back on the recent post, 'Javascript: The Right Way?' [1], I ask the same question regarding CSS.

I find it very difficult to learn to do well. Any suggestions on how to go about doing so. Books, tutorials, great examples in Github, frameworks recommendations welcome.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7074307

27182818284• 13 years ago

I'd like to know more too. I constantly feel like I am just blundering my way through CSS until it works or I get the CSS framework of the day to work for me. I'm at the level where I use LESS to compile to CSS, and I still feel like I'm just like a day 0 amateur

isleyaardvark• 13 years ago

Look up OOCSS and/or SMACSS. Twitter Bootstrap is an example of SMACSS principles at work.

pablovidal85• 13 years ago

The best tip I can give anybody about mastering a language is "read other's code", pick some good project or author in github (use the search engine there) and read every line, try to understand the "character" of the language, how is constructed and organized, instead of the looking too much at the tokens (identifiers, statements, etc).

franklaemmer• 13 years ago

offtopic but: http://www.phptherightway.com/

deadfall• 13 years ago

offtopic but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7074307

chrisjlee84• 13 years ago

http://smacss.com/

codez• 13 years ago

Well seeing as there is those other sites, how about we just make our own??

I can put together a page and we decide which things are important to know in CSS from opinion then when people want to disagree or contribute they can??

For example, important things IMO would be float when getting elements side by side, and how to correctly use position.

But what else?

How to do animations is a good one I think too.

EDIT: So I created a repo for this here https://github.com/jh3y/css-the-right-way

EDIT: Asked for help here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7079505

breathesalt• 13 years ago

I highly recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Pro-CSS-HTML-Design-Patterns/dp/159059...

mattwritescode• 13 years ago

Read others code and practise. Lots of practise.

Ask HN: CSS The Right Way?

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