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Last active September 11, 2025 02:09
CSS best practices

What CSS best practices should I follow ?

HTML best practices Depends. How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go ?

Just need something to look good : use a frontend framework like foundation or bootstrap, won't learn much about CSS. Short list of Front End Frameworks

Surface level : work general to specific. Comment the sections of the CSS. Use a reset or normalizer. Work on patterns, use classes over IDs for reuse. CSS Resets - includes normalize.css Don't have links for the other parts. see below

Little bit deeper : Look into BEM or OOCSS. Those stand for Block Element Modifier and Object Oriented CSS. Two popular methodologies for CSS. Also SMACSS.

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fleishmanhillard / css-style-guide.md
Created April 4, 2014 21:40
CSS style guide with coding standards and best practices.

CSS Style Guide

All rules and guidelines in this document apply to css/scss files unless otherwise noted.

The keywords "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

Most sections are broken up into two parts:

  1. Overview of all rules with a quick example
  2. Each rule called out with examples of do's and don'ts