Tuesday, November 22, 2016

CSS Inheritance, The Cascade And Global Scope: Your New Old Worst Best Friends













 



 




I'm big on modular design. I've long been sold on dividing websites into components, not pages, and amalgamating those components dynamically into interfaces. Flexibility, efficiency and maintainability abound.



CSS Inheritance, The Cascade And Global Scope: Your New Old Worst Best Friends


But I don't want my design to look like it's made out of unrelated things. I'm making an interface, not a surrealist photomontage. As luck would have it, there is already a technology, called CSS, which is designed specifically to solve this problem. Using CSS, I can propagate styles that cross the borders of my HTML components, ensuring a consistent design with minimal effort.





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