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Discussion on: What is the biggest mistake new developers make when learning CSS?

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ryanAllMad

I think it's skipping past the inheritance lessons (pretty much what I did). Learning CSS is so fun because you can make things look so cool and animate things etc, but from personal experience, it isn't until you begin to understand the inheritance properties of styles that you begin to master layout. So, it's boring but pay close attention to your child elements in HTML and read up on how they inherit their parent's properties.

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Seth Corker

That’s a great tip!
The boring fundamentals are easy to skip but hinder your understanding down the road.

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ryanAllMad

πŸ’―!!