Css Demystified Start Writing Css With Confidence

  • Specificity order (low → high): element < class/attribute/pseudo-class < ID < inline. Use specificity intentionally; avoid !important.

  • Stop writing CSS like this: "I’ll try position: absolute and see what happens."

    Start writing CSS like this:

    Before you write any custom CSS, kill the browser defaults. CSS Demystified Start writing CSS with confidence

    * 
      margin: 0;
      padding: 0;
      box-sizing: border-box;
    

    body line-height: 1.5; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif; Stop writing CSS like this: "I’ll try position: