# jgthms/css-reference

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4,902 stars · 336 forks · HTML · MIT

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/jgthms/css-reference
- Homepage: https://cssreference.io
- awesome-repositories: https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/jgthms-css-reference.md

## Topics

`css` `jekyll-site` `reference`

## Description

This project is a CSS property catalog and visual reference guide. It serves as a curated collection of frontend development documentation, providing a searchable directory of layout, typography, and appearance rules.

The resource demonstrates how different styling rules affect the appearance of elements through visual examples. It allows users to browse and verify the behavior of standard CSS properties to determine the correct rules for specific rendering effects.

## Tags

### User Interface & Experience

- [CSS Property Catalogs](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/css-property-catalogs.md) — Provides a searchable collection of CSS layout, typography, and appearance rules with visual rendering examples.
- [Styling Property References](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/background-effects/background-visual-effects/canvas-visual-effects/ui-visual-effects/styling-property-references.md) — Offers a technical catalog of styling properties to reference visual effects like borders, shadows, and opacity. ([source](https://cssreference.io/))
- [CSS Reference Libraries](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/css-reference-libraries.md) — Functions as a curated reference library of CSS properties and layout patterns for web design.
- [CSS Styling](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/css-styling.md) — Allows developers to look up and apply visual styles using standard cascading stylesheet syntax. ([source](https://cssreference.io))
- [Visual Styling Workflows](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/css-styling/visual-styling-workflows.md) — Supports a visual styling workflow where users can verify property behaviors through real-time visual examples.
- [Layout Prototyping Tools](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/user-interface-experience/layout-prototyping-tools.md) — Helps developers quickly identify the correct CSS properties needed for specific layout behaviors during prototyping.

### Education & Learning Resources

- [CSS Property Documentation](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/education-learning-resources/css-property-documentation.md) — Serves as a descriptive reference for CSS property usage, values, and rendering behaviors. ([source](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jgthms/css-reference@master/README.md))
- [CSS Visual References](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/education-learning-resources/css-visual-references.md) — Provides a visual directory to browse and understand how specific CSS properties change the appearance of elements. ([source](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jgthms/css-reference@master/README.md))
- [Frontend Development Guides](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/education-learning-resources/frontend-development-guides.md) — Provides educational guides for studying CSS properties and their impact on element rendering.
- [Frontend Development Resources](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/education-learning-resources/frontend-development-resources.md) — Serves as an educational knowledge base for developers to verify the behavior of standard CSS properties.

### Content Management & Publishing

- [Markdown-Based Content Authoring](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/content-management-publishing/content-management-systems/content-authoring-tools/markdown-based-content-authoring/markdown-based-content-authoring.md) — Utilizes a markdown-based content authoring workflow to store and manage property documentation in plain text.
- [Static Site Generation](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/content-management-publishing/static-site-document-generators/static-site-generators/static-site-generation.md) — Uses static site generation to build a pre-rendered set of HTML pages for fast load times and SEO.

### Development Tools & Productivity

- [Data-Driven Page Templates](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/project-scaffolding-config-code-generation/project-scaffolding-configuration/templating-engines/dynamic-templates/data-driven-page-templates.md) — Employs data-driven page templates to automatically generate consistent layouts for various CSS property entries.

### Web Development

- [Client-Side Search Engines](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/web-development/client-side-search-engines.md) — Provides a client-side search engine to allow instantaneous filtering of CSS properties from a local JSON manifest.