elementnumber46

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CSS: surely there is a less painful way to learn it

so i've been digging around finding resources to utilize cohost's ability to use html/css directly in-post bc i think cool comics stuff could be done with it

for some people like me with reduced brain elasticity who are trying to relearn the OLD WAYS from back when we fucked around on geocities/angelfire/lycos making shrines to zelgadis greywords from slayers (HE WAS HOT OKAY) there are comics about this from julia evans!

julia also has a cool zine about it and a bunch of free ones on her site

do you have any not-painful html/css learning resources you use? lemme knoooow

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palecur
@palecur

As someone wrapping up a work project to restyle things in CSS despite repeatedly telling them I don't know any CSS and that it would take weeks and suck and the result would be a fragile hackjob courtesy of stackoverflow and cursing, I too desire such resources. I used a lot of w3schools, but that is definitely Hardmode (they think it is not, they are about this incorrect). So the real Ultimate Power for CSS is realizing literally everything can be overridden, only the last thing actually happens, and that if you don't know which css files are called in what order all your toil and pleading will be overridden by some arriviste css you didn't know about. in conclusion, styling is a land of contrasts, thank you

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xenolon
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My go-to's are always:

  1. css-tricks.com
  2. google the thing you want and add "code pen" to the end. CodePen has tons of existing snippets and such, but most importantly they have in-browser try-it-yourself editors that let you mess around to actually see how things work. For instance this great playground for Flex (flex box). https://codepen.io/ndangelo/pen/BaamRam
    I build user interfaces for a living and I still refer back to this thing all the time.
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