Frontend Mentor - Blog preview card solution

This is a solution to the Blog preview card challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Frontend Mentor - Blog preview card solution
  • Table of contents
  • Overview
    • The challenge
    • Screenshots
    • Links
  • My process
    • Built with
    • What I learned
    • Continued development

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• See hover and focus states for all interactive elements on the page

Screenshots

Links

• Solution URL: https://github.com/ryyHardy/frontend-mentor-blog-preview-card/
• Live Site URL: https://ryyhardy.github.io/frontend-mentor-blog-preview-card/

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5
• CSS
• Flexbox (a little bit)

What I learned

I learned how to use the cascade of CSS to my advantage. When I was going through this challenge, I wasn't happy with how the text elements were organized. Using what I knew about specificity helped me clean up the CSS a bit and move on to other parts of the challenge.

For example, I used the "p" selector as a default for the paragraphs, and I used classes to overwrite it when needed.

.blog-card p {
  font-size: 0.9rem;
  line-height: 1.6em;
  color: var(--gray);
}

.blog-card .date {
  color: var(--black);
  font-weight: 500;
  font-size: 0.8rem;
  padding-bottom: 1em;
}

Continued development

I want to take advantage of the way CSS works rather than working against it. The cleanest CSS I've seen follows those principles, and I would like to learn more about how to do that. Also, I'm not super happy with the CSS handling the active states or the weird unit values I used to match the design. My eternal struggle with CSS units continues!