I gotta get better at CSS, I'm somewhat horrified by what I've done in JavaScript that it turns out I didn't need.
Does anyone know of a good book on intermediate/advanced CSS to help avoid excess JS usage/complexity?
Does anyone know of a good book on intermediate/advanced CSS to help avoid excess JS usage/complexity?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS
If you are already familiar with basic CSS skipping to the middle is fine. A lot of modern CSS is just discovery of what you can do since none of it is really all that intuitive, but I generally end up googling "how can I do X effect in CSS" and seeing what the consensus is.
Just as some examples, you can do responsive bars that move all over the page, change their contents, have togglable collapse menus, have dropdown menus in those menus, etc all in plain CSS, but you can't have multiple columns of arbitrary sized elements in left to right top to bottom order.
Learning CSS is really just learning the contemporary limits of what you can do and then ruining your lovely responsive grids and flexboxes with absolute positioned px garbage when you have to support IE as penance for your crimes.
https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/professional-css3
https://www.amazon.com/CSS-Secrets-Solutions-Everyday-Proble...
I haven't used it personally BUT it seems to cover most things I'd use these days, including "new" topics like grid, filters, etc. CSS is relatively simple so something of a reference with some examples would be great.
Css is surprisingly good in places, but it also drives me up the wall as soon as I let myself expect to be able to do more things in it. Yesterday it was gradient masks.