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I’ve been doing quite a bit of CSS fixing/updating for a handful of large complex websites lately and it has really started to challenge and shape my ideas about CSS. Below, I share my ever evolving philosophy (in its current state) on CSS. Specifically, I’m talking about specificity. (Think of me as an outsider looking into your CSS to fix or add something.)

Two Most Common Methods
There are definitely more ways to skin a website than there are ways to skin a cat. But as far as specificity goes, it seems to me that there are are two basic CSS religions. For the purpose of this post, I am going to call them Method 1 and Method 2 because I am boring like that.
Xanax Bar Effects

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