Cascading Style Sheets

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to format the display of HTML.

CSS Resets

There are a variety of methods to reset the default browser CSS in attempt to render more consistently. Please document any experience you have with these.

• “Undoing html.css and using debug scaffolding” by Tantek Çelik 2004-09-06
• normalize.css

CSS Resources

• CSS on W3C
• CSS on Mozilla Developer Network
• HTML and CSS Book
• CSS Tricks Almanac
• CSS Diner
• CSS Stats
• CSS Battle
• Selectors Explained
• How to write a JavaScript-free todo app using just HTML and CSS

Posts & Articles

• 2026-09-21 Pete Millspaugh (WIRED): Justice for CSS
• 2026-08-31 Jason Santa Maria: CSS is Still Awesome
• 2024-08-01 Unplanned Obsolescence: The Messy Pile

Ivy’s dense yet simple implementation of this pattern highlights something that took me a long time to learn: it’s only possible to write good HTML if you write good CSS.

• 2023-06-18 Matthias Ott: The New CSS
• 2022-02-03 @nachtfunke twitter post (archived):

CSS is part of the stack. It's not a controversial statement. You are not a full stack developer if you are unable to write basic CSS. CSS is not just props & values. It is baffling to me that as a CSS developer, I have to basically justify why I wanna write actual CSS.

• 2018-10-07 Lara Karki: CSS is a Declarative, Domain-Specific Programming Language
• 2018-06-08 Keith J. Grant: Resilient, Declarative, Contextual
• 2017-07-18 Jeremy Keith: CSS

See Also

• HTML
• JavaScript
• CSS Framework
• flexbox
• grid