Specificity

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A snake eating its tale, with the letters CSS printed on its face

Reading Time: 14 minutesEvery once in a while someone asks specifically about how to manage CSS performance for a website. What if there’s a lot of components? What if there’s a lot of animations? What if there’s a lot of just CSS?

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Folks who are brand new to web development, particularly front-end, might hear the term “Specificity” or “CSS Specificity” and when they look it up the answer can seem daunting and confusing.

I want to break it down in very simple, very non-technical terms so that someone brand-new to the world of front-end can understand what it is