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You’re probably writing complex CSS for no reason
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You’re probably writing complex CSS for no reason

via Dev.to Webdevjabo Landry4h ago

These past days I’ve noticed that many of us haven’t been checking out on what’s new with CSS features and I think if you haven’t checked for these new features, you’re probably complicating your CSS snippets and writing complicated JavaScript snippets that can done using CSS. In Today’s guide I will be talking about some of the new features of CSS that you probably haven’t heard of or may have heard of them but haven’t practiced them, no worries I will be guiding you on how they work and giving an example of their use-cases. Features we will cover Introduction Features we will cover has pseudo-class CSS Nesting Nesting for pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes @scope @container queries Summary Final Thoughts has pseudo-class The has pseudo-class unlocks a lot of possibility with CSS, now with has pseudo-class you can style the parent element based on its descendant's behavior, styling and even their attributes. If I we were to have a button that toggles a text on/off, in this case we wou

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