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Nesting crash course, a fun gradient trick and a really hard quiz

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Hello Reader,

A very short email this week, with a little less content than usual. Between the Black Friday Sale, my Smashing workshop, and a few other things, it’s been pretty hectic! Luckily I knew this was all coming and made some regular content for all of December already 😅.

🙋‍♂️ What I’ve been up to this week

Getting started with CSS Nesting

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CSS Nesting is awesome, though there are a few important things to know about it, which I break down in this video.

⚡ Raindbow gradient with only 2 color stops?!

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The title of this one says it all 😅.

📝 Quiz time!

A few weeks ago I had a tricky selector question that most people got wrong (only 14% got it correct!). This one's tricky too, but a bit different: Only one of these selectors is valid, which one is it?

  1. :is(> *)
  2. :has(> *)
  3. :not(> *)
  4. :where(> *)

As per usual, you'll have to head on over to YouTube to take a stab at the quiz, and once you answer, you'll see if you were right or not.

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Hoping to have a podcast episode out next week, as well as a more regular version of this newsletter.

Until then,
Kevin

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