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Professional CSS3

You're reading from   Professional CSS3 Harness the power of CSS3 to design stunning, modern websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880940
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Piotr Sikora Piotr Sikora
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Professional CSS3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Foundations and Tools FREE CHAPTER 2. Mastering of Fundamentals 3. Mastering of Pseudoelements and Pseudoclasses 4. Responsive Websites – Prepare Your Code for Specific Devices 5. Using Background Images in CSS 6. Styling Forms 7. Resolving Classic Problems 8. Usage of Flexbox Transform 9. Calc, Gradients, and Shadows 10. Don't Repeat Yourself – Let's Create a Simple CSS Framework 11. Mailers Fundamentals 12. Scalability and Modularity 13. Code Optimization 14. Final Automatization and Processes Optimization Index

Building scalable and modular code


The process of building good code is unique to each developer. But how can you build easily scalable CSS code? Additionally, this code needs to be modular.

The most important thing in methodologies is the naming convention. You can use a proper methodology for your project, but you can use it in the wrong way and append bad class names. Have you ever seen projects that have classes with a name and definition similar to this one:

.padding-0 {
    padding: 10px;
}

As you can see, the class name is created to make padding with value 0, but finally it has a value not equal to 0. This can be an example of a bad naming convention. There can be more examples of badly used names:

.marginTop10 {
    padding-top: 50px;
}

The second important thing in methodologies is the structure of classes/elements in document and nesting levels. Some sources say that the maximum nesting levels shouldn't be greater than five, while others say three. For the sake of readability, code...

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