Methodologien

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BEM is a popular CSS naming convention. While the fundamentals of BEM are simple and straightforward, mistakes are common. These BEM examples will help you apply this useful naming convention and avoid some of the pitfalls many face when using BEM naming conventions.

I'm a massive fan of BEM, however there are a few problems I have with the syntax. I've made some slight tweaks to improve on it. I call this adapted syntax ABEM.

Over the last several years, the way I write CSS has transitioned from a "semantic" approach to something more like what people call "functional CSS." In this post I explain how I got to this point and share some of the lessons and insights I've picked up along the way.

Naming conventions that frameworks and design systems use when it comes to typography, especially headings sizing.

MaintainableCSS is an approach to writing modular, scalable and of course, maintainable CSS.

Zsolt Nagy discusses three principles of CSS architecture and why mastering them will help you keep your CSS maintainable and lean.

Zsolt Nagy discusses three principles of CSS architecture and why mastering them will help you keep your CSS maintainable and lean.

A tutorial on working with Sass and BEM when building a more obscure than usual component.

Since publishing MaintainableCSS I’ve received some criticism from advocates of atomic CSS. One person said they puked up all over their…

Every time I read a hit piece on Atomic CSS, I feel compelled to respond. I can’t help it. I like thinking and talking about this stuff.

There has been controversy about Atomic CSS (or Functional CSS if you prefer). Much has been written, but what about some cold hard…

ACSS? BEM? OOCSS? SMACSS? BEMIT? UCSS? Atomic OOBEMITSCSS? What is wrong with CSS? Or are we wrong with all those conventions and…

Before the refactor, my CSS weighed 111kb. After the refactor, it weighed 27kb.

Maintaining CSS can be problem in large projects. Here are some notes to make the maintainance a breeze

“Though nothing is perfect, I really appreciate the way BEM's structure makes it easy to tell at a glance exactly how selectors relate to each other.”

“If you have to imagine this kind of pain, think about new versions of Bootstrap. And multiply it by 1000 due to the bigger size of the library and the amount of projects. These were the problems which BEM offered to solve.”

“While I really like the flat selector approach that BEM defines, I prefer to not clutter my elements with a bunch of classes. My decision was then to use data attributes to apply my modifiers and contexts.”

How do we handle CSS at trivago, what methodologies do we apply, how do we structure our CSS, what do we do for Quality Assurance and…

Prägnanz & Pragmatik

BEM was a transformative methodology in the world of CSS, but — when limited to the style sheet — it can only take us so far.

I have been reading an endless number of posts regarding CSS over the last couple of days. The sheer number of possible ways to style an…

There are fashions in CSS usage, and I don’t always keep up with them. Structural markup like BEM block — element-modifier is currently…

How a little BEM and cleverness can make extensive use of EMs worth doing, and how it can up your game.

How a little BEM and cleverness can make extensive use of EMs worth doing, and how it can up your game.

BEM — Block Element Modifier is a methodology, that helps you to achieve reusable components and code sharing in the front-end.