Late to Logical

2020 brought another wave of logical property features to major browsers and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my investment into logical, rather than physical, web styling. I feel like I’ve learned a new way to speak about the box model that results in less written code with more global coverage. p { / 🚫 / text-align: left; / 👍 / text-align: start;

/ 🚫 / margin-top: 1rem; / 👍 / margin-block-start: 1rem; } Like I described in the web.dev article I linked … Read article “Late to Logical”

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Created 4y | Dec 7, 2020, 10:21:01 PM


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