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

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.

How Does CSS Works? and How We Can Change How It Works! Elad Shechter CSS HTML Architect Appwrite Web Directions hover 2022 The conference CSS deserves

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Thoroughly enjoyed Web Directions — met some great people, heard some inspiring presenters and added a whole bunch of things to my to-do list.

Joel Roberts Web Developer