@christopher-adolphe
Posted
Hi @fontainm 👋
You did a great job on this challenge. 👍
I had a look at your code and here are a few things that might help you with your class names and the structure of your markup:
- I get the impression you tried to use the
BEM
methodology to write yourCSS
but you did not applied it 100%. You have defined.notifications
as aBlock
which has the.notifications__header
and.notifications__list
as itsElements
. This is good 👍. However, the.notifications
Block
has otherElements
inside it which you chose to target differently. To be honest, it's not a bad thing as such but if you'd like to go the fullBEM
way, here's a suggestion for the class names and markup:
<div class="notifications">
<header class="notifications__header">
<h1 class="notifications__title">Notifications</h1>
<span class="notifications__count">{{ countUnread }}</span>
<button type="button" class="notifications__btn">Mark all as read</button>
</header>
<ul class="notifications__list">
<li class="notifications__item">
<img class="notifications__avatar"/>
<div class="notifications__content">
<div class="notifications__sender"></div>
<span class="notifications__time"></span>
<div class="notifications__body"></div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
With the above markup, you will end up with the following CSS
:
.notifications { ... }
.notifications__header { ... }
.notifications__title { ... }
.notifications__count { ... }
.notifications__btn { ... }
.notifications__list { ... }
.notifications__item { ... }
.notifications__item--unread { ... } // This will be your `Modifier` to style an unread item
.notifications__avatar { ... }
.notifications__content { ... }
.notifications__sender { ... }
.notifications__time { ... }
.notifications__body { ... }
As you can see, if you follow the BEM
methodology, your final CSS
is completely flat, i.e you'll not have selectors like .notifications__list .notification .message { ... }
- One last thing, use semantic elements where needed. For example, the
Mark all as read
should be a<button>
instead of a<div>
I hope this helps.
Keep it up.
Marked as helpful
@fontainm
Posted
Hi @christopher-adolphe, this is great feedback, thank you! I will try to use the BEM method properly in my upcoming projects 👍
@christopher-adolphe
Posted
@fontainm you are welcome.
I'm happy to help and glad to see this was helpful to you. 🙂
See you on the next one.
Best regards.