CSS Convention Resources

Web Platform:

• World Wide Web CERN, 1991
• WWW HyperMedia Browser & Editor Emulator
• Line Mode Browser, Emulator (original was developed by Nicola Pellow)
• W3C Mission & Principles

CSS & The Cascade:

• Historical Style Sheet Proposals
• Cascading HTML style sheets – a proposal by Håkon W Lie, 1994
• CSS Cascading & Inheritance Level 4
• MDN Introduction to the CSS Cascade
• Attribute Selectors

CSS Conventions:

1. CSS Systems by Natalie Downe, 2008
2. OOCSS by Nicole Sullivan, 2009
3. BEM by Yandex, 2010
4. SMACSS by Jonathan Snook, 2012
5. Atomic Web Design by Brad Frost, 2013
6. Inverted Triangle CSS by Harry Roberts, 2014
7. Attribute Modules for CSS by Glen Maddern, 2014
8. Atomic CSS by Yahoo!, 2015
9. CUBE CSS by Andy Bell, 2020

CSS in JS:

• CSS Modules
• Vue Scoped CSS
• Styled Components
• Emotion
• Tachyons
• Tailwind CSS

Other Resources:

• Structural Naming by Eric Meyer, 2004 (part of a larger conversation of linked blog posts)
• Link Specificity by Eric Meyer
• CSS Workflow by Jina
• Pattern Primer by Jeremy Keith
• CSS Guidelines by Harry Roberts
• Sass Guidelines by Kitty Giraudel
• BEMIT by Harry Roberts
• Atomic OOBEMITSCSS by Una Kravets
• About HTML Semantics and Front-End Architecture by Nicolas Gallagher
• Semantic CSS With Intelligent Selectors by Heydon Pickering
• Resilient, Declarative, Contextual by Keith J Grant
• The Way We Talk About CSS by Rachel Andrew
• How I Structure My CSS (for Now) by Matthias Ott (not mentioned directly)

From Miriam:

• Why is CSS so Weird?
• CSS Custom Properties in the Cascade
• Using Custom Property “Stacks” to Tame the Cascade
• Custom Cascade Layers
• Don’t Use My Grid System