Poetic CSS
There are many conventions for organizing CSS, but the best systems all share underlying principles based on CSS itself. What would it mean to use The Cascade as our guide? At OddBird we call this Poetic CSS.

CodePen Demos
Resources
- Natalie Downe, CSS Systems
- Nicole Sullivan, OOCSS
- Harry Roberts, Inverted Triangle CSS
- Andy Bell, CUBE CSS
- Vasilis van Gemert, The UX of HTML
- Craig Abbott, Our CSS isn’t opinionated enough
- MDN on
aria-current - Heydon Pickering, Semantic CSS With Intelligent Selectors
- Ben Myers, Stateful, Semantic Selectors
- CSS Selectors Specification
- Adrian Roselli, Disclosure Widgets
- Nicolas Gallagher, About HTML semantics and front-end architecture
- Miriam Suzanne, Poetic CSS Course
- Keith Cirkel, CSS Classes Considered Harmful
- Rachel Andrew, The Way We Talk About CSS