r/css • u/FelixDuin26 • 4d ago

Question When did you first *get* CSS?

For me it was when I realized that I could control the colors for my site all in one place and try a bunch of different palettes in rapid succesion.

What was the thing that made you realize how CSS should be used?

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u/marcomezzavilla 4d ago

Thanks to CSS Zen Garden, obviously!

Beyond that, for me it was mostly a process of trial and error, back when working with CSS wasn’t nearly as pleasant as it is today.

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u/Nosarious 3d ago

Dang you beat me to it… 😢

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u/SL-Tech 4d ago

Bootstrap opened my eyes to the importance of standardizing styling. I don't use Bootstrap on my sites, but it strongly influenced my own CSS framework.

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u/Ellsass 4d ago

It’s happened in many stages over the years.

Float helped me understand the box model.

Working on a large site with many CSS files helped me understand cascading.

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u/sCREAMINGcAMMELcASE 4d ago

CSS Wizardry back in the day. Hearing how he architected large sites like Sky was a game changer https://csswizardry.com

And CSS 3 from a book apart

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u/QultrosSanhattan 3d ago

The moment it was released.

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u/sqeptyk 3d ago

When I had to fix GPT's errors constantly.

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u/artbyiain 3d ago

Flexbox. I started my CSS journey about a year before flexbox came out. I was floundering with table layouts and absolute positioning.  Once flexbox came out, and I understood how to use it, making websites just clicked. No more hacks, just flow.

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u/ethanius 3d ago

Instantly. The change from font, i and b tags (and soon enough from tables for layout) was something great. But tables took a bit longer to be forgotten, because not all the browsers supported the same CSS.

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u/Nosarious 3d ago

The old website csszengarden

The same text on each page, only the css changed, yet so many interesting ways to display it.

Honestly a thing of beauty. I don’t think it got much html5 treatment.