These CSS features give us more control on the cascade and specificity
Channel: Kevin Powell
Date: 2024-04-09

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🔗 Links 
✅ More on svh/dvh/lvh: https://youtu.be/ru3U8MHbFFI
✅ More on specificity: https://youtu.be/c0kfcP_nD9E
✅ More on :is() :where() and :has(): https://youtu.be/3ncFpP8GP4g
✅ More on layers: https://youtu.be/NDNRGW-_1EE
✅ More on feature queries @support: https://youtu.be/wPI8CEoheSk
✅ Browser support for :has(): https://caniuse.com/css-has
✅ Browser support for layers: https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_at-rules_layer
✅ Browser support for @scope: https://caniuse.com/css-cascade-scope

⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
01:40 - Order basics
03:10 - Debugging order
04:18 - Order linting
05:55 - Invalid declarations & debugging them
07:40 - Using order and invalid declarations on purpose
10:26 - Feature queries @supports
12:45 - Specificity intro
13:45 - Specificity basics
15:18 - Debugging specificity
16:40 - Modern selectors impact on specificity
24:00 - Cascade Layers introduction
24:38 - Cascade Layers basics
27:25 - Debugging layers
28:45 - Declaring layers before using them
31:28 - The impact of !important on layers
33:30 - Combining layers with “unlayered” styles
34:28 - Introduction to scope
36:04 - Scope basics
40:50 - Using scope with style elements inside an element

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