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Web Directions Hover '22 session spotlight–How Does CSS Work? and How We Can Change How It Works! - Web Directions

Web Directions Hover ’22 session spotlight–How Does CSS Work? and How We Can Change How It Works!

John Allsopp

21st February, 2022

@johnallsopp

How Does CSS Work? and How We Can Change How It Works!

When you start creating a new website or web application, even before writing a single style, the browser applies styles to it — its default styles.

Have you ever asked yourself who decides what those basic default styles will be?

In this talk, I want to teach you the different CSS levels in browsers, how they work, and how we can control and manipulate them.

Elad Shechter

Elad Shechter is a Web Developer specializing in CSS & HTML design and architecture. He’s the creator of “The New CSS Reset”, a new modern CSS Reset. Besides this, his a writer of various globally known CSS articles and a CSS speaker.

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