Smarter Styling with CSS Preprocessors
In software development we always try to follow rules and best practices to produce better products by minimizing code. One of the most popular mantras is the D.R.Y (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle and states the following:
Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.
Of course, it is not always easy to perfectly follow this principle. For example, this can become difficult in front-end development and, more precisely, when it comes to CSS.
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Discovering Bootstrap, from Twitter
Bootstrap is an open source front-end toolkit created two years ago by some Twitter employees. The initial goal was to improve their internal tools but the application was later expanded beyond Twitter. It provides flexible, ready-to-use components to build with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Consequently, Bootstrap has grown to be the most downloaded project on GitHub (more than 33,000 watchers and almost 7,000 forks).
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[TUTORIAL] Fixing CSS Float Issues
During the creation of a website, you will sometimes want to add the “float” CSS property to some of your containers to handle alignment within a container.
This CSS property specifies whether or not a box within an element should float.
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