Hasty Treat - Why Do People Hate CSS?

Hasty Treat - Why Do People Hate CSS?

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about why people hate CSS, some common issues, and how you can level up. Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 03:20 - Layout is hard block vs inline vs inline-block Learn what this means! Flexbox https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ Grid Avoid floats Wes’ Flexbox Course Wes’ CSS Grid Course Scott’s Modern CSS Layouts Course 07:43 - I can’t get my thing to get the right style Use a scoping system like BEM, CSS in JS, CSS Modules Don’t style via IDs Avoid !important 11:00 - My thing isn’t looking the way it’s coded Dev tools Write CSS in the browser Check class names 12:11 - I don’t know if I can delete this CSS Use tools like https://purgecss.com/ http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2010/06/25/the-media-object-saves-hundreds-of-lines-of-code/ 15:51 - Look at things holistically Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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970: Why Did Anthropic Buy Bun?

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969: This guy is nuts (TypeScript Doom)

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968: Habits and Changes We Want to Make in 2026

968: Habits and Changes We Want to Make in 2026

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7 Tammi 33min

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966: A Look Back at Web Dev in 2025

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24 Joulu 202556min

965: Baseline 2025 Features web gained in 2025

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Scott and Wes break down the biggest web platform features that reached Baseline in 2025, separating the genuinely useful APIs from the niche and forgettable ones. From same-document view transitions ...

22 Joulu 202526min

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