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Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Paul McFedries
January 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
848 pages
18h 2m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 1

Debugging CSS Code

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Getting your browser’s dev tools onscreen

Bullet Inspecting an element’s styles

Bullet Editing CSS property values

Bullet Adding CSS on the fly

Bullet Simulating pseudo-classes

CSS, like other languages, becomes easier to debug when you take time to learn a bit about its quirks. It also helps to become familiar with tools to help you both debug and prevent creating bugs in the first place.

— STEPHANIE ECKLES

CSS is awesome. With just a few rules, you can turn a drab, lifeless page into a work of art that is a pleasure to read and will have your visitors clamoring for more.

CSS is also a pain in the you-know-what. You add what appears to be a straightforward rule to your CSS, save your work, refresh your browser and … nothing changes! Or maybe things change, but not in the way you expected. Cue the cartoon steam shooting out your ears.

Let me say at this point that although these kinds of frustrations are the stuff of legend in the CSS community, they do not mean, ...

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