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Enduring CSS

You're reading from   Enduring CSS Create robust and scalable CSS for any size web project

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787282803
Length 134 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface
1. Writing Styles for Rapidly Changing, Long-lived Projects FREE CHAPTER 2. The Problems of CSS at Scale 3. Implementing Received Wisdom 4. Introducing the ECSS Methodology 5. File Organisation and Naming Conventions 6. Dealing with State Changes in ECSS 7. Applying ECSS to Your Website or Application 8. The Ten Commandments of Sane Style Sheets 9. Tooling for an ECSS Approach 1. CSS Selector Performance 2. Browser Representatives on CSS Performance

What about JavaScript

However, Whitworth also notes that extra diligence is required when dealing with JavaScript and dynamism in the DOM structure, If you are using JavaScript to add or replace classes on events over and over again you should think about how that will affect the overall web pipeline and the DOM structure of the box you're touching.

This ties in with the earlier comment from Paul Irish (https://www.paulirish.com/). Rapid invalidation of areas of the DOM thanks to class changes can occasionally show up complex selectors. So, maybe we should be worried about selectors?

 

There are exceptions to every rule and there are selectors that are more performant than others but we normally only see these in cases where there are massive DOM trees in tandem with JavaScript anti-patterns that causes DOM thrashing and additional layout or painting to take place

 
 --Whitworth

For more simplistic JavaScript changes, Lewis offers this advice, The solution is normally...

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