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Getting to Know Custom CSS Properties

Lawrence Chabela CSS & HTML, Development Technologies Leave a Comment

CSS custom properties are very powerful way for you to spice up your style sheets. They are a way to separate JavaScript behavior and styling, as shown in the ability to set information in the JavaScript for the CSS to use for its styling.

Even if you’re using a preprocessor for your CSS, there is still a place for CSS custom properties to be directly embedded in your CSS.

In this blog: we introduce custom CSS properties, show why you want to use them, how to define them, and how to change them with and without JavaScript.

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Structuring CSS Selectors With Sass Mixins

Lawrence Chabela CSS & HTML, Development Technologies, Single-Page Application 2 Comments

Attention: The following article was published over 8 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.CSS naming can be one of the most challenging things in creating large-scale style systems in an application. There have been a lot of great practices, methodologies, and conventions that have arisen …