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Submitted almost 3 years ago

Solution using HTML and CSS with Universal Selectors

Eddie Quirk•20
@edquirk
A solution to the QR code component challenge
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The most difficult part of this while using Universal Selectors was figuring out the color schemes and the best place to put them in the css stylesheet.

I am wondering the best practices when implementing universal items or if best practice is to avoid using this at all? Thanks so much and looking forward to the next challenge!

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    Miguel Zapata•690
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    Posted almost 3 years ago

    Hi Eddie, It is usually used for CSS resetting. If you want to know more about that, I would recommend you this article https://css-tricks.com/an-interview-with-elad-shechter-on-the-new-css-reset/. There are multiple approaches and the topic gets you thinking deep about CSS.

    About the color schemes, I would reccomend you researching about CSS custom properties. It is a clean way to organize them and it is easy to maintain.

    After that, as you get more comfortable, I would suggest you to try SASS/SCSS and try some structures like this https://css-irl.info/a-modern-front-end-workflow-part-3/

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