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Product Preview Card Component made by ActuallyWIKKO

ActuallyWIKKO•20
@ActuallyWIKKO
A solution to the Product preview card component challenge
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Solution retrospective

What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

It took a bit to get the hang of this but it was very satisfying seeing the result, tweaking even the tiny details to make it good to go. It was quite fun.

I would definitely use this document as a future reference on how to set up a card component.

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

First I struggled with alignments and flex box. When I was looking up examples I got the hang of it pretty quickly and wrote my own.

A struggled a little getting the media query set up with the images switching. Turns out I was overthinking it and in the past couple of years it got wayyy easier to do this inline in HTML.

There were a couple of little things too that I had to look up, like transforming the scale of the H2 to make it look more squished or setting the old price to appear centered to the new price (not displaying it on the baseline).

What specific areas of your project would you like help with?

I'd really like to know if I got the sizing right. It looks like it, but I'm not certain. I also would like some advice on using different sizing operators (px vs. rem). I tried to be consistant here but there is some room for improvement.

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  • Koda👹•3,830
    @kodan96

    hi there! 👋

    You should avoid hard-coded values (pixels) most of the time. When you use these values you give up responsiveness(or you make it harder for yourself at least)..

    Typically you will increase the font-size property with @media queries. If you have hard-coded values all over your CSS, you need to modify every element's font-size . On the other hand, if you use rem -s all you need to do is changing the font-size in your CSS :root selector and all your elements will have a new size based on that value.

    I usually use em for padding and margin for text-based elements, since their margin usually based on their font-size , and again, when you change the font-size in :root these values will scale up as well without you touching them, making your job easier and your page maintainable.

    If you are not familiar with the :root selector it's usually used to set custom properties(others call them CSS variables ) that you can apply later.

    Hope this was helpful 🙏

    Good luck and happy coding! 💪

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