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Scope and opportunities for CSS

CSS plays a very important role since beginning and today without HTML, CSS, and javascript, website development would have been a little difficult.

The generation of smartphones and the use of mobile phones has led many developers to realize that there are certain languages that are a must for building responsive websites.

Let’s take a look at the few things about HTML, CSS3, and Javascript

• The web page you see in your browser is a combination of structure, style, and interactivity.
• These jobs are undertaken by 3 different technologies, HTML, CSS, and javascript which your browser knows how to interpret.
• CSS and co. are open standards: they’re maintained by organizations, not companies, so there are no restrictions on their use. They can be used in open-source projects
• They’re safe and secure, partially because they’re open standards.
• They’re cross-platform, they’ll work on any operating system and on anyiOS Devices, phones, tablets, computers.
• They’re less resource-intensive and a lot of web games using HTML5 and CSS3 run very smoothly on phones.

Benefits of CSS

• Cost-effective and Multi-Platform Development: A single piece of code can be used across platforms, devices and markets, this an added advantage because it results in lower development and maintenance costs, allowing you to use your resources elsewhere.
• Good page ranking: If your page is not structured well then the page itself will not attain a good rank within search engines. CSS’s new elements can be anticipated when site is being re-indexed on search engines
• Consistency across multiple web browsers: The implementation of CSS helps the designer to create a compatible site or system within all browsers.
• User Experience: CSS offers a wide range of design and presentation tools which gives the developers greater scope to produce better sites and web applications. This is very important from a business point of view as user engagement is the key to increase site and system use and conversion.

We’ll examine the CSS features that will be in high demand in 2020 and discover what the approximately 11,000 survey respondents had to say about major CSS concepts such as typography, layouts, interactions, animations, shapes, and graphics.

Layouts

Knowing how to place your boxes in the right place in relation to both the viewport and one another is crucial to your presentation, look, and feel. Although CSS is roughly two decades old, we’ve seen myriad innovations designed to help frontend developers create more and more stunning layouts in CSS, many of which have gained widespread adoption.

Let’s zoom in on the top CSS layouts developers are using in 2020.

Flexbox

The Flexbox layout is a one-dimensional CSS module that is used to design interfaces and layout boxes in a presentation within a container. You can flex the boxes in any direction, expand them to fill up unused space, or shrink them to avoid overflowing. Flexbox lets you make all kinds of alignment adjustments. Think of it as an extension of the grid.

According to the survey, virtually all CSS users have heard of Flexbox. Even more impressive, 94.43 percent of respondents have actually used the layout in their projects.

Grid

CSS Grid Layout is a straightforward, two-dimensional layout system for the web. With the grid, you can divide your presentation into columns and rows. You can also define relationships of the parts of your webpage in size or position.

Almost everyone has heard of CSS grids, but only 54.4 percent of respondents have actually used this layout. This may suggest that users are finding the CSS Grid Layout more difficult to use than Flexbox.

Multi-column layout

The Multi-column Layout specification enables you to arrange content into columns, similar to a newspaper layout. You can choose the number of columns, customize how they flow from one column to another, and adjust the size of the gaps between columns.

Although nearly 41 percent percent of survey respondents (including myself) are unfamiliar with the Multi-column Layout, 30.9 percent of respondents have actually used it before. This likely reflects an awareness gap in the market, since the majority of developers who do know about the Multi-column Layout tend to use it in practice.

Writing modes

CSS Writing Modes is a CSS module that defines international writing modes, such as left-to-right (e.g., Latin scripts), right-to-left (e.g., Hebrew scripts), vertical (e.g., Chinese scripts), and bi-directional modes. This is a niche offering, which explains the low awareness scores in the survey.

Shapes and graphics

As CSS has matured, it has become easier to create graphics and shapes with pure CSS. Today, if you really master the shapes and graphics features of CSS, you can build stunning graphics without using a separate editing app. With support for filters and effects and other features such as blend, CSS makes the job easier and more streamlined.

Another advantage of using CSS has to do with accessibility. Writing in pure CSS and HTML is always conducive to accessibility because screen readers and other assistive devices can easily interpret pure CSS.

Filters and effects

Just like the editing software on your phone’s camera or any social media application today, the filter property applies graphical effects, such as color shifts, to an element. It is used to adjust image renderings and backgrounds. Almost everyone who uses CSS knows about it, and according to the “State of CSS,” more than two-thirds of CSS developers use it in practice.

Object fit

This property is used for the content of a replaced element, such as an image. It defines how the content should be resized to fit the parent container. Just like filters and effects, more than 67 percent of CSS users leverage this property.

Shapes

You can apply geometric shapes available in CSS to floating elements in your presentation. This property follows the rules outlined in the level 1 specifications. Twenty percent of the survey respondents use the shapes property. Other shapes and graphics features, such as blend mode, masking, and clip-path, also enjoy widespread use in the CSS community.

Interactions

JavaScript used to be the only language for controlling browser behavior. As CSS matured, features that enable you to influence browser behavior, such as scroll snap, became available. Let’s see what the “State of CSS” survey respondents had to say about some of these properties.

Scroll snap

This CSS module provides scroll snap positions for ports of scroll containers just after scrolling an element. Although half of the survey participants are aware of this feature, only 11 percent are currently using it.

Over-flow behaviour

Over-flow behavior defines an element’s behavior when it reaches a scroll while being scrolled. Forty percent of developers use it, according to the survey data, while 19 percent actually use the feature.

Over-flow anchor

With this CSS property, you can disable the default browser’s scroll anchor, which automatically adjusts the scroll position to reduce the frequency of content shifts. According to the “State of CSS,” very few people have heard about Over-flow anchor and even fewer in the CSS community use it.

Typography

In CSS typography, variable fonts are in high demand. As we await true responsive type, let’s look at the most-used typography features in 2019.

Font face

This CSS at-rule defines a custom font. You can load it from your local storage or on a remote server. Every CSS developer has heard of it, according to the survey, and 92 percent currently use it.

Variable fonts

Variable fonts enable you to use many variations of a typeface in a single file, thereby eliminating separate font files for every weight or style. You can access all those variations through a simple font face reference.

Initial letter

This CSS property is used to style the initial letters of texts in your presentation to designs such as sunken, raised, or even dropped. About 70 percent of CSS users know about this property, and 28 percent use it.

Animations and transforms

Every CSS developer has used animations in one way or another, from a mouse hover to really complex animations, such as on the “State of CSS” homepage. The three most-used features are transitions, transforms, and animations.

Transitions

This CSS module enables you to build gradual transitions between values of CSS properties. You can control things such as the duration and timing function of the transition. According to the survey, 93 percent of CSS users have used transitions.

Transforms

Transforms are CSS modules that specify how CSS-styled elements can be transformed in both two- and three-dimensional space. Like transitions, 93 percent of CSS users have used transform.

Animations

You can animate the values of CSS properties you define over time using keyframes with the CSS module called animations. By specifying the timing function, duration, and number of times it should be repeated, animation is achieved and controlled. According to the “State of CSS,” 89 percent of CSS users have used this module in their work.