The 6 most important CSS concepts for beginners

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 box-sizing: https://youtu.be/WlGQdgy-M6w
✅ More info on specificity: https://youtu.be/c0kfcP_nD9E
✅ Getting started with flexbox: https://youtu.be/u044iM9xsWU
✅ Getting started with grid: https://youtu.be/rg7Fvvl3taU

⌚ 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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