While CSS is simple to learn and get started with, it soon becomes problematic at any reasonable scale. There isn’t much we can do to change how CSS works, but we can make changes to the way we author and structure it.
In working on large, long-running projects, with dozens of developers of differing specialities and abilities, it is important that we all work in a unified way in order to
- keep stylesheets maintainable;
- keep code transparent, sane, and readable;
- keep stylesheets scalable.
There are a variety of techniques we must employ in order to satisfy these goals, and CSS Guidelines is a document of recommendations and approaches that will help us to do so. CSS Guidelines is a document by Harry Roberts.CSS Guidelines