When we first get started with CSS, we hear a lot of new terms and jargon, a lot of which is glossed over pretty quickly. In this video, I look at the most important things to know when getting started, but I also look at why they matter, and how to work with them or take advantage of them to write better CSS.

Links
✅ More info on the box model and boxsizing:    • boxsizing: borderbox explained  
✅ More info on specificity:    • CSS Specificity explained  
✅ Getting started with flexbox:    • Learn flexbox the easy way  
✅ Getting started with grid:    • Learn CSS Grid the easy way  

⌚ Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
01:37 Inheritance
07:48 The Cascade
12:09 Dealing with the box model
15:04 Specificity
18:46 Naming stuff is hard
20:58 Creating layouts
25:22 Content vs Layout

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