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Alexandra Cianciara
2,465 PointsHow to make a website/css
I have a question on the Normalise stylsheet used in this course. What is the purpose of this? I didt quote get it where was this used. Also, is there a reason to use sepereate css stylsheets? I think at the end of the course there was a use of seperate one for media query. Can we not have all in one?
Thank you
3 Answers
Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,738 PointsBrowsers have default ways of styling html. (There's the classic blue links, stuff like that. Not many websites are completely un-styled nowadays). But different browsers have different defaults, which is annoying sometimes, but the web is kind of the wild west. Normalize.css is a ways of applying some defaults to all the browsers. If you're developing your website by previewing it in Chrome, you want to avoid surprises when you look at it in Internet Explorer.
You could put it all in one file, but it's a better idea to keep it separate I think. It's more management to have small files so it's easier to find what you're looking for.
Alexandra Cianciara
2,465 PointsThank you. So, should I have normalise.ss, then my customise css stylesheet and then probably the third one for responsive css?
Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,738 PointsI would do the responsive design in the same place as your other styles. I prefer to use scss where I can nest media queries.
Alexandra Cianciara
2,465 PointsThank you. Sorry but what is scss?
Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,738 PointsIt's a fancier version of css: https://sass-lang.com/ There are some courses on it at Treehouse.