SMRTR ProgrammingJun 9, 2026Daily.dev

CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts

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CSS is vast, but a learnable subset exists for developers building simple sites like blogs. This guide walks through the good parts (flexbox, semantic HTML, classless CSS) and the nasty gotchas (box-sizing defaults, font-size quirks, margin collapsing, flow layout) that waste days of debugging. Written by a non-web developer who learned the hard way.

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