CSS Cascade Layers: The Specificity Solution Your Build Tool Can Automate
Stop fighting CSS specificity by hand. Let your bundler wrap files in cascade layers automatically.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 21650) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Kresho Posted on Apr 29 CSS Cascade Layers: The Specificity Solution Your Build Tool Can Automate #css #webdev #webpack #vite If you've ever added !important to a CSS rule just to override a third-party component's styles, you know the feeling. You know it's wrong. You know it'll come back to haunt you. But the alternative, writing an even more specific selector, feels just as bad. CSS specificity has been the source of countless hours of frustration in frontend development.
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