Form Styling Essentials | The basics to modern CSS tips & tricks

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In this tutorial, we'll explore using .form-groups for better organization, making sure our elements inherit font properties, when to use CSS Grid over Flexbox for form layouts (plus one key flexbox use case), advanced selectors for targeting specific form elements, practical layout tips and tricks, the new accent-color property for native styling, and more. 🔗 Links ✅ The starting code: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/LEEzWOr ✅ The finished code: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/JodojoQ ✅ Why I don't like min-width: 0: https://youtu.be/FD3aC_Ke8uk?si=BsgpcAfLRCltNmtk ✅ MDN on accent-color: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/accent-color ✅ Improve your forms user experience: https://youtu.be/awNYtIAu6pI?si=2QKKuBqox8MPWxGA ⌚ Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction 00:10 - keeping things in form groups 00:50 - inheriting font properties 01:55 - use grid for forms and form groups 04:20 - dealing with the minimum size of some inputs 06:28 - layout tips 10:50 - strategies for styling specific elements 13:13 - bonus tip: using ch unit for gap 13:50 - accent-color 14:43 - bonus tip: text-box-trim #css ✉ Keep up to date with everything I'm up to https://www.kevinpowell.co/newsletter 💬 Come hang out with other devs in my Discord Community https://discord.gg/nTYCvrK ⭐ Are you a beginner? HTML & CSS for absolute beginners is for you: https://learn.kevinpowell.co 🎓 Start writing CSS with confidence with CSS Demystified: [https://cssdemystified.com](https://cssdemystified.

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