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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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Ben Frain Ben Frain
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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

4. Thou shalt not write vendor prefixes in the authoring style sheets

Thanks to PostCSS, we now have tooling that means it is unnecessary to write vendor prefixes for any W3C specified property/values in the authoring style sheets. The prefixes are handled auto-magically by the Autoprefixer (https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer) tool that can be configured to provide vendor prefixes for the required level of platforms/browser support.

For example, don't do this:

4. Thou shalt not write vendor prefixes in the authoring style sheets





    .ip-Header_Count { 
      position: absolute; 
      right: $size-full;
      top: 50%; 
      -webkit-transform: translateY(-50%); 
      -ms-transform: translateY(-50%); 
      transform: translateY(-50%); 
    }

Instead you should just write this:

.ip-Header_Count {
    position: absolute;
    right: $size-full;
    top: 50%;
    transform: translateY(-50%);
}

Not only does this make the authoring style sheets easier to read and work with, it also means that when we want to change our level of support we can make...

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