15. Managing Style Sheets

In This Chapter

Creating Readable Style Sheets 362

CSS Libraries and Frameworks 367

Style Sheet Strategies 368

Troubleshooting CSS Code 372

Debugging CSS in Firebug and Web Inspector 376

Validating Your CSS Code 381

Minifying Your CSS 382

32 CSS Best Practices 385

It’s not enough to write CSS that makes your pages look pretty. To create the best Web pages, you must also write clean code that’s easy to read, easy to maintain, and loads quickly.

To manage your style sheets you need to know how to create well-organized code, work with CSS libraries and Frameworks, optimize the linking of style sheets, validate your CSS, and compress the code by minifying it.

This chapter will help you realize all these goals and finish ...

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