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Posted by nobody .
nobody .
Courses Plus Student 258 Points

What resources do you use when you need to find a new CSS selector, or a new HTML tag?

I am sure, nobody can memorize all the terminology up there, so I suppose, a good skill of any web developer would be the ability to find very quickly any information he needs. And is like a linguist that doesnt have to memorize all the words in a language, as long as he have a dictionary and know how to find very quickly any word he needs. So, my question is: what resources do you use when you are looking for a CSS property(selector) or for a HTML tag? Also, I will be interested to know what resources you use for JavaScript and PHP. Thanks

3 Answers

Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 Points
Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 Points

www.w3.org

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

www.w3schools.com (wouldn't use their examples, but good for a quick resource look up)

www.htmldog.com

http://www.php.net/manual/en/

Edit: I usually go to either mdn or w3schools for a quick syntax look up; but if I'm trying to figure out a task, a quick Google search works perfectly. Usually that search leads me to stackoverflow 9/10 times.

George S-T
George S-T
6,624 Points
George S-T
George S-T
6,624 Points

Well usually I just type the start of a property or tag (Eg. font) and then look through the list of options that I can apply. If I am really stuck I just look it up on google and usually the first result is perfect.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Most resources on the the Internet are terrible, if I need to look up the syntax for something in CSS I usually look at these resources (in order from quickest to use to most complete)

CSS

  1. CSS Property Quick Refernce
  2. CSS Property Reference by HTML Dog
  3. Sitepoint's Selector Reference by Sitepoint
  4. CSS3 Click Chart Working examples for most CSS3 properties
  5. CSS values search for CSS property syntax
  6. Devdocs Most complete searchable source for CSS info from the Mozilla