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by MrEfficiency 2871 days ago
CSS is one of those things I think you bite the bullet and learn over a weekend.

Its frustrating rather than difficult + the instant gratification makes it a fun little weekend project.

EDIT: For clarity-

"Cheat sheets" in CSS IMO are more harm than good. Sure, google the occasional 'align'. But until you start typing in your own code, you really are hacking your CSS.

Taking a weekend to learn CSS is learning the syntax and applying it. After this, you will know what to google, what type of responsive problems you will be setting widths for, etc...

Its very easy to use other people's work in HTML/CSS without ever understanding it.

3 comments

Not a very constructive comment but sure you can brush over the syntax in a weekend, it will take a lot more than a couple of days to master CSS.
I've been writing CSS since the late 90's. I look up CSS syntax almost daily.

This comment is seriously unhelpful gatekeeping

There's an air of "I am very smart" about the guy who claims to have memorized the entirety of CSS in a weekend.
Who said that?
The grandparent post. After a weekend of CSS you don't even know what you don't know. The complexity isn't the syntax, its the interactions between all of the elements.
The grandparent post said nothing about memorizing.
Know enough to humbly know that I know far from everything or know just enough to be dangerous?
What does this have to do with the post?