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Submitted

Blog Preview Card Using BEM CSS Styling and Flexbox

Peter 20

@skipperr254

Desktop design screenshot for the Blog preview card coding challenge

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  • HTML
  • CSS
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What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

I was able to implement the BEM CSS styling method which I have never used before. Hope I implemented it the right way!

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

Probably trying to figure out the rem values for the various px values used in the project.

What specific areas of your project would you like help with?

  1. How was my implementation of BEM? Is that's how it's done or is there a better way I missed?
  2. Is using rem for the various sizes including the text-size, width, and border-radius the best way to scale the elements based on the screen size? Did I use the rem sizing the correct way?

Community feedback

@AlyferJT

Posted

Well, the view code page is going to 404, you changed the project name. But, congratulations!

The thing about rem is root-em, he is a size unit based on the root value, since the default root value is 16px in most cases

.5rem = 8px
1rem = 16px
2rem = 32px
5rem = 80px
And so on and so forth...

but there is a trick that a lot of users use The 62.5% Font Size Trick I recommend you to search about it

This trick is about setting the root default size to 62.5%. It's 62.5% of the default (16px) that is equal to 10px. They set then inside the html {}, like this:

html {
      font-size: 62.5%;
}

That's how you set it Well, this bring us a lot of benefits, and i personally like to use it This helps us setting responsive fonts on the screen, since not all browsers uses the same font-size by default, and some users grow up the font to better see then, you could say that it brings us a help with the accessibility, actually this is a rem property, but you simplify the use with this 62.5% trick

Anyway, when you set the 62.5%, this is the way you would use the rem:

.5rem = 5px
1rem = 10px
2rem = 20px
5rem = 50px
And so on and so forth...

Cool, right? You can clearly see how much px the rem will give That's a life savier Well, that's not all, this is the main idea about the trick But i recommend you to search about it, there is a lot about

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Peter 20

@skipperr254

Posted

@AlyferJT Hi there Alyfer, thanks for the insights.

I didn't notice with the GitHub code page link being broken. I also saw the 62.5% trick somewhere but I never went in too deep with it. It's a good idea and will definitely implement it in a future project. There is a downside, however, you have to implicitly define the font-size of almost all your elements. Not found a way to by-pass that yet.

Thanks for the idea and your feedback.

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@AlyferJT

Posted

Np. :D

rem has the responsive benefits and setting all the font-sizes is not a bad thing in my vision. But maybe you think in some size unit you would like to use, like em, that is relative to the font size of its parent, so, maybe you could use em

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