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Strategies

This page reviews the various strategies you can apply to tackle CSS, tracing their strengths and weaknesses, and comparing them against one another.

• Stylesheets

Stylesheets

Methodologies

Methodologies organize your CSS as the size of your website or web application grows. They're adopted to create a regular way of writing CSS rules and applying them in HTML.

• BEM, a method to create reusable components via consistent naming and structure
• CubeCSS, an extension of CSS that embraces the cascade and inheritance
• rscss, a set of simple ideas to guide your process of building maintainable CSS

Units

Various units are useful for different manipulations in CSS. Here's a simple chart breaking down when to use what. There are three values:

• Y - Yes, use this unit for this purpose!
• N - No, avoid this unit for this purpose.
• / - It's a mixed bag and sometimes you'll need this unit for this purpose.