Your CSS questions, answered

With some heavy inspiration from Wired’s autocomplete interviews, I’m here to answer what Google tells me are the most asked CSS questions!

I left out the "how to" stuff, because it tended to be very basic, with things like centering text, or changing a background color, and it left us with some pretty good ones!

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[markboots_]

Survey: "CSS is a programming language"
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[sirajmussafirr]

It is great watching Kevin's videos. They are insightful, simple, but yet deep. The way he presents is just amazing, one could sit and watch even if we already know what he covers. Great mentorship Kevin 👍🏾

[proteus]

CSS is a language that programmers find hard to use.

[lynx]

thanks for being my CSS guru -- i've learned a lot from you!

[CirTap]

If people are "locked in" to use a CSS framework for whatever reason, they often don't even know what else CSS has to offer. Especially if they start with one. They only learn and understand the **vocabulary** of the Framework and believe that's it with no understanding of how CSS really works and the powers it has to offer if you just "let it doits job."

Once a project's infected with a CSS Framework, you virtually have to stick to it's layout methodology (ofen flexbox based stuff) w/o deviations or everything falls apart incl. writing some very specific bad HTML structures.
The latter has always been a no go for me, so I personally never have used any CSS framework if I had the choise - that's for +25 years now. 🤞🏻

[igorlima]

you can defenitly use css without html.

I remember back in the day using css with java using the javafx library.
While that's not using css alone, it's using it without html.

[golfgrab]

tailwind is like an inline css but you compressed one line of css to one word of tailwind classname

[abhishekkhatana]

Kevin Which units should I use for setting image height and width in css go for px or rem ?

[mhdfr]

14:00 strongly agree with this, gives us the headahce when learn / using css smh

[TomasMisura]

editing css in terms of changing values or parameters it is not possible in photoshop. but PSD file itself could be converted into html/css. but I would say 99, 99% of people don't use it

[AlThePal]

It is another mark up language but becoming one

[Jsdhrt]

You can use CSS on XML 😊 or at the least you could…

[CodingAbroad]

When you see any webpage layout which requires grid. Do you always know how to do it? Or do you still find yourself needing to look things up?

I ask as there are so many properties associated with grid (and flex)

[deathone]

Is CSS a programming language?
I think for most of it's life to this point it has not been up to this point and I still think in 90% of cases it is not.
But looking at some of the CSS only things you have done and thinking about things like --var, calc(), minMax, and some of the more future stuff. I am starting to question if parts of it are.

For the most part I think it is just a style sheet for most projects, meaning the meta data of something like MS Word for example. I also think it will most likely continue to be this way for the forseeable future unless CSS brings in ways to call API's, which would not make sense in the grand scope of the Web.

I do not think it is a lesser thing, it is just a format thing. This does not make it hard or simple to learn, formatting a word Doc or an e-mail can be hard to master also.

PS: Besides this I would not really fight it if someone ask me.

To your last point CSS is not needed for making websites. Yes, they might look like they are from the '80's and '90's without, but some of those still exist without a single bit of CSS.

[gasparsigma]

Saying that CSS is a programming language is like saying that bananas are berries and strawberries are not. Technically correct, but for practical purposes no. Just no.

[cbennder]

wo ist das Video über die Web-Components?